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Bonecrusher Hemingway: Documentary by Eric Reichbaum
Meet 'Bonecrusher Hemingway,' a slight man with heavyweight dreams of arm-wrestling glory. Watch his final day of preparation as he must shed unwanted pounds before the big event which will pit him against female opponents who are bent on interrupting his Herculean assault on the Olympian heights of athletic achievement.
This is a first documentary by photographer Eric Reichbaum and it made me laugh… a lot. Sometimes people do something they want to do and you just have to watch them do it.
1960 Trailer for Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless
This is a 1960 trailer for Jean-Luc Godard's exploding hand-grenade of a film, Breathless. It's a brilliant trailer that casually itemizes the best features of the movie. I am betting that Godard made the trailer himself. In other words, this would be an actual Godard film. That's him doing the male voice-over work. This is the same director who recently made a film trailer that compressed an entire film into four minutes of fast-forward.
Ursus: Animation by Reinis Petersons
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orson Welles Narrates 1977 Film by Lawrence Jordan
Filmmaker Lawrence Jordan calls this 'a long opium dream of the old Mariner' that marries the engravings of Gustave Dore to the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Jordan adds many of his own cutout elements to the animation, creating something totally unique. Orson Welles' performance of the poem is unforgettable, simultaneously delicate and powerful as he fully embodies the role of the old Mariner with a story to tell. There is enough mystery and otherworldliness from Jordan's hands to pair magnificently with one of the saddest and most beautiful poems ever written in English.
The film is dedicated to the great assemblage artist and filmmaker Wallace Berman who was a close friend of Jordan.