MCN Film Docket - Archives for February, 2010

Animated Short: Logorama

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city… and even more in LOGORAMA!

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Images: Rabbit a la Berlin

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Animated Short: The Lady and the Reaper

A sweet old lady lives alone in her farm, waiting for the arrival of death to meet his beloved husband again. One night, while sleeping, her life fades out and she is invited to cross death’s door. But when she is about to do so, the old lady wakes up inside a hospital’s ward: an…

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Animated Short: French Roast

In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman is about to pay the check when he finds out that he’s lost his wallet. To save time he decides to order more coffee…

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Animated Short: Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery – Top Bun – and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims, but Wallace couldn’t care – he’s fallen head over heels in love with Piella…

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Animated Short: Granny O’Grimm

We’ve all heard of the Grimm fairytales. Granny’s are grimmer. Granny O’Grimm tells her little granddaughter the tale of Sleeping Beauty as a bedtime story, but ends up terrifying her in the process.

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Trailer for Documentary Short: Rabbit a la Berlin

It’s an important lesson of history that a system of order intended to produce one result will often give birth to something entirely unexpected. So it was with the Berlin Wall, which was, in fact, two separate walls, one on the east and one on the west with a 120-kilometre strip of land between them….

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Documentary Short: Music by Prudence

Sunrise over the bush. A fresh morning star spilling vitality over scrambling, dry rocks. The African plain: supple and green. Clouds (celestial rapids) racing over an otherwise halcyon sky. Against these, the voice of a woman: clear and strong. “Liyana,” she sings. “Yes,” they respond. “Where are you?” she calls. “We are here,” they answer….

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Documentary Short: The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

Governor Booth Gardner is fighting his last campaign. After a career of successful political battles, including his tenure as Washington state’s most popular governor, Gardner wants to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Shortly after leaving office the governor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and two decades later it is slowly deteriorating his body towards an ugly demise. …

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Documentary Short: Tears of Sichuan Province

On May 12, 2008, a catastrophic earthquake hit Sichuan Province in rural China, killing nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students, most of them their parents’ only child. But when grieving mothers and fathers sought explanations and justice, they found their…

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Documentary Short: The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant

This 40-minute documentary focuses on the workers of the General Motors Assembly Plant in Moraine, Ohio – which opened in 1981, and churned out an average of 280,000 small trucks and SUVs a year – from the announcement a year ago that the Plant will be closing, to its last day on December 23, 2008,…

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Oscar Winning Shorts: 1965 The Dot and the Line

The story details a straight line who falls in love with a dot. The dot, finding the line to be stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. The line, unable to fall out of love and willing to do whatever it takes to win the dot’s affection, manages to bend…

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The Repo Men Posters

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A Peek Into The Secret Of Kells

Adventure, action and danger await 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells.

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Trailer: Date Night

With Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, date night is much more than just dinner and a movie.

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TV Spot for Nightmare on Elm Street

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Trailer: The Losers

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Trailer: The Karate Kid

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TV Spots for The Green Zone

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Alice in Wonderland: Clothe this enormous girl!

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon