Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco’s screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Barbes, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. TRUE STORY, Directed by Stephanie Via 3 min – 2006 – USA – English – B&W An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood mome… Buy Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1 at Amazon
Review
“Gimme Skelter features a dangerous, bloodthirsty ‘family’ traveling in a van who decide to outdo a previous notorious ‘family’ by slaughtering every person in a remote small town. The frenzied, gore-spattered battle between the family and the surprisingly rambunctious citizens over a long night make up the core of this entertaining thriller. Sly & energetic. 4 stars.” – –John Oak Dalton, Micro-Cinema Scene
Short films have their own succinct pleasures, but they’re almost impossible to see outside of occasional festival screenings. So it’s delightful that all of the short animated and live-action films nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 have been packaged together for home viewing. The two American animated shorts are, perhaps unsurprisingly, comic–a Pixar snippet featuring characters from Monsters, Inc. and a clever sci-fi shaggy-dog story (“The ChubbChubbs!,” that year’s … Buy 75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films at Amazon
Engaged in a battle to control the downtown drug trade, Mace (Martin Seijo) must fight to maintain control of his street gang as a young hustler named Ponch (Allan Medina) tries to take him out. Caught in the middle of the drug war are homeless drifters Jason (Michael Thomas Dunn) and Molly (Jamie Belanger). The film is existential journey of life in the urban jungle. The film is a somber look at the challenges of poverty, drugs and homelessness in the inner city.This feature f… Buy Alone and Restless: Director’s Cut at Amazon
How does the design of your cell phone, toothbrush or couch impact your life? Did you ever stop to think about it? Director Gary Hustwit (HELVETICA) looks …
This absorbing three-part series begins as Bess (Sally Field, fresh from Forrest Gump), a proper Dallas lady, marries Rob (Ghost’s Tony Goldwyn), her childhood sweetheart. All should be sunshine and roses, except Bess finds marriage unfulfilling. Rob, as she puts it, “has a purpose.” Despite her roles as wife and mother, Bess feels she lacks one of her own (14-year age difference aside, Field and Goldwyn make a convincing couple). Robs mother (My Left Foot’s Brenda Fricker) jo… Buy A Woman of Independent Means at Amazon
