If you haven’t yet been introduced to The Louise Logs, we recommend checking out a couple of the earlier chapters in her saga. We’ve presented at least one episode here before, and we can recommend watching the series from this episode forward. This recently released chapter presents the developments we had to suspect were on […]
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Shovel Ready
All sorts of things can happen that keep us from being home for dinner on time. We just wonder if this 2010 entry in the Washington DC 48 Hour Film Project depicts the sort of thing that might happen to you. Certainly the story reminds us of some things we might do to be better […]
Last Day In the Life
48HFP: Quelques Instants (A Few More Moments)
It’s the Little Things
With 24 hour cable news, disasters reported on Twitter within minutes, and blockbuster movies that shows us dozens of ways that the world can come to an end, we easily forget that it’s the very little things that matter the most in our lives. This charming short film created for the 2009 San Jose 48 […]
The Value of Life
Folks from the Inland Empire 48 Hour Film Project won several awards for this short film about the value of life. We really liked the makeup and special effects. Good work and congratulations to the team. Maybe now we really will give up eating meat!
Respect For the Roots
Walter Murch addressed an audience at the San Francisco Film Festival (#SFIFF for you Twitter types) that pays homage to the foundations of cinema. As a big fans of the value that sound adds to the filmmaker’s craft, we were very happy to hear some of the things he had to say in this substantial […]
The Cost of Duty
We were impressed with the ambition of the team that produced this film for the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project. They lined up a spectacular location, an amazing array of authentic military hardware, and wrote a beautiful score to back this tragic story of a woman faced with an imperative of her duty. Vernichter […]
What’s Really Important?
Most of the teams who participate in the 48 Hour Film Project come back with great stories to tell about snafus and adventures they have during filming or production. The team that made this film tells us that they had scheduled a location shoot in a bar that turned out to be open for business […]
When Good Containers Go Bag
Another audience favorite in the 2009 San Jose 48 Hour Film Project brought screams of laughter and groans of respect for the atrocious puns. The writing was over the top, and the stories that these filmmakers brought back from their weekend adventure are the stuff we’ve become accustomed to hearing at 48HFP. Enjoy now, as […]
What we need is a new holiday!
Right in the middle of summer when sales slump, there’s a chance for a new holiday to honor one of America’s unsung heroes. Why didn’t we think of this before? Well now you can say he’s unsung — even if he wasn’t really that tall! By the way, if you want to see more from […]