A 9-year-old girl plays translator during a parent-teacher conference between her Russian dad and her American teacher.
Before he became household name, Jason Reitman created this clever comedy about a couple looking to iron out a few details before they hook up.
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. Their labor routines, activity patterns, as well as bugs and malfunctions, paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
In a rare turn of events, a cursory web search has revealed that at least one of the Oscar live-action short films is online, Luke Doolan's Miracle Fish. The animated shorts often are online, but for various reasons the live action ones don't make it.
One of my personal favorite shorts, Soft, by British director Simon Ellis has come home to the internet. I reviewed the film in 2008, however the article at that time linked to a pirated copy of the film, and that video was soon taken down.
The grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the fauna’s primitive world, which was until-then perfectly organized.
The 3rd and final Blade Runner 2049 prequel short is out, this one from anime-legend Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop)
Things get out of hand when an advertising agency and their client meet at a so-called offline meeting, to try to agree on the final cut of a commercial film.
