Short of the Week

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    Fashion Film Roundup Pt. 1: Scorcese, Miller, Lynch & Ritchie

    The assault that the city of New York has been under for the last week, perpetrated by 5'11, birdlike amazons, garbed in freakish war paint and extravagant, yet bizarrely soft battle armor, is now over. I speak of course of Fashion Week New York which ended yesterday, one of the 4 international fashion weeks which rule the industry and establish the direction the fashion world will take in the coming year.

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    Action Guy Ritchie

    Un Rendez Vous

    Famed director, Guy Ritchie, helms this stylish noir film featuring some not so subtle product placement and Jude Law.

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    Action Ludovic Houplain

    Logorama

    Mayhem shakes a world constructed of corporate logos in this Oscar-winning animation.

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    Film Noir Greg Williams

    Tell-Tale

    Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish erotic-noir.

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    Experimental Varathit Uthaisri

    Surface

    Watching the dramas of daily life unfold from underneath the surface.

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    Music Video Chris Milk

    The Wilderness Downtown (Arcade Fire)

    Take a trip down memory lane in this interactive music video that draws imagery from your own childhood experiences of suburbia.

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    SotW Arrives on Facebook

    Short of the Week is now rockin' it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the "like" button to get our curated short film selections right in your news feed. As an added enticement to follow us, we're adding a new category of post which will be FB-exclusive—SotW Recycled—where once a week we'll dip into our now over 3-year back catalog of reviews and recommend a past favorite you might not have seen.

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    Fantasy

    Mei Ling

    Nostalgic yet dark, sexy but absurd, this lovely and unique animation about a young Hong Kong girl, her oft-absent lover and a jealous octopus slowly wraps its tentacles around you.

  • News

    Kon Satoshi: Good Morning; Magnetic Rose

    Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.

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    Action Daniel Brown

    Your Lucky Day

    A $156 million winning lotto ticket turns a convenience store upside-down.

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