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Kon Ichikawa | The Burmese Harp
the parrot’s brotherby Douglas Messerli Natto Wada (screenplay, based on a novel by Michio Takeyama), Kon Ichikawa (director)ビマの竪琴 (The Burmese Harp) / 1956, 1967 (US release) As critic Tony Rayns...
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Tom Palazzolo | Gay for a Day
fruit loopsby Douglas Messerli Tom Palazzolo (director) Gay for a Day / 1976 [11 minutes] Shot a year before Arthur J. Bressan’s far superior celebration of Gay Pride Day in several US cities, Gay USA,...
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Matt Wolf | Another Hayride
healing without a cureby Douglas Messerli Matt Wolf (director) Another Hayride / 2021 [18 minutes] For those of you who never experienced rural life in mid-century US, a hayride, as described by the...
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Satyajit Ray | জলসাঘর (Jalsaghar) (The Music Room)
trapped in the pastby Douglas Messerli Satyajit Ray (screenplay, based on a story by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. and director) জলসাঘর (Jalsaghar) (The Music Room) / 1958 Satayajit Ray's fourth feature...
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Ray Enright | The Circus Clown
unexplained behaviorby Douglas Messerli Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Paul Gerard Smith (screenplay), Ray Enright (director) The Circus Clown / 1934 Ray Enright’s The Circus Clown is one of those films...
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Peter de Rome | Hot Pants
happenstanceby Douglas Messerli Peter de Rome (director) Hot Pants / 1971 [6 minutes] For 6 long minutes Jonny Robinson dances seductively to music by James Brown. He begins in blue jeans with a net...
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Peter de Rome | Mumbo Jumbo
releaseby Douglas Messerli Peter de Rome Mumbo Jumbo / 1972 Peter de Rome’s Mumbo Jumbo appears to be just that, a batch of confusing material that the director hadn’t been able to develop into a...
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Peter de Rome | Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus
conjuring up romanceby Douglas Messerli Peter de Rome (director) Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus / 1972 De Rome’s Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus—although with Underground of this same year—might be...
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Pierre Étaix | Le grand amour (The Great Love)
the film without an endby Douglas Messerli Pierre Étaix and Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay), Pierre Étaix (director) Le grand amour (The Great Love) / 1969 As Étaix himself describes it, Le grand...
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Marco Fettolini | Lucky Fares
holy animalsby Douglas Messerli Marco Fettolini and Alain Kortazar (screenplay), Marco Fettolini (director) Lucky Fares / 2014 [12 minutes] Spanish director Marco Fettolini’s 12-minute short, Lucky...
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Rudolf Ising | Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
the annoying trolley songby Douglas Messerli Isadore Freleng, Max Maxwell, Bob Clampett, and Larry Martin (animation, based on a story by Bob Clampett), Rudolf Ising (director) Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! /...
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Michael Curtiz | White Christmas
my white christmasby Douglas Messerli Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank (screenplay), Michael Curtiz (director) White Christmas / 1954 It’s a bit odd to realize, as I have gradually come...
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Gregory La Cava | My Man Godfrey
the exemplary trampby Douglas Messerli Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind and Gregory La Cava (screenplay, based on a story of Eric Hatch), Gregory La Cava (director) My Man Godfrey / 1936 Long ago I heard a...
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Andrew Neighbors | Wetstone
all wetby Douglas Messerli Sean Campbell (screenplay, based on a story by Andrew Neighbors), Andrew Neighbors (director) Wetstone / 2020 [11 minutes] Lovers Theo (Andrew Neighbors) and Nick (Nick...
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Gaukur Úlfarsson and Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson | Þorsti (Thirst)
the vampire who loves to suck cockby Douglas Messerli Björn Leó Brynjarsson (screenplay), Gaukur Úlfarsson and Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson (directors)Þorsti (Thirst) / 2019 I’ve made it quite clear...
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Tavo Ruiz | Se murió Juan Gabriel (Juan Gabriel Is Dead)
a different lightby Douglas Messerli Tavo Ruiz (screenwriter and director) Se murió Juan Gabriel (Juan Gabriel Is Dead) / 2018 [15 minutes] Mexican-born director Tavo Ruiz who lives in Germany began...
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Claude Chabrol | Merci pour le chocolat
funeral marchby Douglas Messerli Claude Chabrol, Charlotte Armstrong, and Caroline Eliacheff (screenplay, based on Armstrong's book The Chocolate Cobweb), Claude Chabrol (director) Merci pour le...
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Marcel Gisler | Electroboy
beautiful boy: genius and nerousesby Douglas Messerli Marcel Gisler (screenwriter and director) Electroboy / 2014 Long before he became known as “Electroboy” and even before the first events of this...
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Mark Pluck | Hornbeam
strangers in loveby Douglas Messerli Daniel Lane (screenplay), Mark Pluck (director) Hornbeam / 2022 [16 minutes] Two middle-aged men (Daniel Lane and Christopher Sherwood) meet up in a rural English...
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Michael R. Barnard | Hot Car
swallowing down your sorrows at ihopby Douglas Messerli Michael R. Barnard (screenwriter and director) Hot Car / 2015 [17 minutes] There are no cars, alas, in Michael R. Barnard’s rather polemic...
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