Don’t date a girl who travels. She is hard to please. The usual dinner-movie date at the mall will suck the life out of her. Her soul craves for new experiences and adventures.
Chances are, she can’t hold a steady job. Or she’s probably daydreaming about quitting. She doesn’t want to keep working her ass off for someone else’s dream. She has her own and is working towards it.
She makes money from designing, writing, photography or something that requires creativity and imagination. Don’t waste her time complaining about your boring job.
She might have wasted her college degree and switched careers entirely. She is now a dive instructor or a yoga teacher. She’s not sure when the next paycheck is coming. But she doesn’t work like a robot all day, she goes out and takes what life has to offer and challenges you to do the same.
So never date a girl who travels unless you can keep up with her. And if you unintentionally fall in love with one, don’t you dare keep her. Let her go.
Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.
It focuses on Fritz, an anthropomorphic feline in mid-1960s New York City who explores the ideals of hedonism and socio-political consciousness.
The film is a satire focusing on American college life of the era, race relations, the free love movement, and left and right-wing politics.
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in symbolic imagery and sound.
It features very little dialogue and is mainly driven by Pink Floyd’s music.
It depicts the construction and ultimate demolition of a metaphorical wall, alienation.
One of the best trippy movies ever.
Enter the Void is a 2009 French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, labeled by Noé as a “psychedelic melodrama”.
The story is set in Tokyo and focuses on Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by the police, but continues to watch over his sister Linda and the events which follow during an out-of-body experience, floating above Tokyo’s streets.
Noé had tried various hallucinogens in his youth and used those experiences as inspiration for the visual style.
Including one drug experience where he traveled to the Peruvian jungle to try Ayahuasca. The experience was very intense and Noé regarded it “almost like professional research.”
This is purely a visual experience, don’t expect a great narrative – just trip out on the global neon candy-scapes.
Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction film adaptation of a novel written by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that he ever wrote, as well as his final film.
William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind’s true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments.
A dazzling film for its time.
A cult classic by any definition, Terry Gilliam’s epic sci-fi film is a true “dystopian satire“. Brazil challenges known societal constructs.
Focusing on “satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life” as Jack Matthews puts it.
Robert Rodriguez has directed a bunch of cool movies, including the Mexico Trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Sin City.
His creative approach to directing and penchant for shooting low-budget is unique. Without sacrificing quality, Rodriguez is able to routinely shoot under budget.
In the following video, Rodriguez takes us through his process, offering innovative strategies for cash-strapped Directors.
The Making of “El Mariachi” – The Robert Rodriguez 10 Minute Film School
A behind the scenes look at the making of the Robert Rodriguez ultra low budget film “El Mariachi”. Rodriguez explains the tricks filmmakers can use when working with extremely limited budgets.
A young couple’s secret love affair comes to a bittersweet end during an evening phone call as cell phone static creates distance between them.
In this “crouching love, hidden breakup” story, inspired by 50’s Shanghai water ink animation & kung fu films, themes of distance, tradition, art and longing dominate a telephonic conversation as a martial arts tango provides the visual backdrop.
This short film features Marvel’s Venom (Eddie Brock) as a New York City crime journalist. The story is shot in the same style as Dog Bites Man (which follows a horrifying day in the life of a psychopathic serial killer).
Starring Ryan Kwanten
Written & Directed by Joe Lynch
Produced by Adi Shankar & Sam Balcomb
Collider: How did this new short come together? Who came up with the idea?
Producer Adi Shankar: You take Man Bites Dog and mash it up with a well-known anti-hero. It’s a concept where you take a character that’s inherently over the top and you drop him in an overly realistic grounded reality and have everyone around him scratching their heads as to why this individual is behaving like a cartoon character.
Collider: Talk a bit about the philosophy behind making these shorts.
Producer Adi Shankar: I don’t subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books … that thinking perpetuates the consumerist mosh pit we are now desperately trying to dig ourselves out of. I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.
These shorts are as much a part of my filmography as the movies are, I care about Dirty Laundry (Punisher Short Film) as much as I care about my upcoming movie The Voices. Kevin Smith called me last week after Comic-Con and encouraged me to make more of these. He told me that the vast majority of the people you’ll deal with in Hollywood won’t care about these shorts because they can’t make a buck off it. It doesn’t matter. It’s not for them it’s for the fans. – Producer Adi Shankar Talks about Truth in Journalism Short
Gillian Jacobs (Britta from Community) plays a woman whose smothering relationship is literally driving her crazy, causing her to act out in hilarious rage. As a hybrid genre of dark comedy, the film has to hit both comedic and suspenseful story beats. Director Matt Spicer uses invasive sound and camera design to make a dull life maddening before kicking it over the edge.
Entertainment Weekly: Wow, this is dark!
Gillian Jacobs: I read the script and I thought it was an interesting thing for me to do. I hadn’t done anything serious or dark like that in a while. For me it was kind of nice to go back to something that’s a little bit darker than what I’ve been doing lately.
Entertainment Weekly: We don’t get to know much about your character. Did you create a backstory for her?
Gillian Jacobs: I didn’t even create a name for her! We talked a lot about how you reach that point in a relationship where you guys have been together for long enough that little tiny things about your partner start to drive you insane. We talked about that down to sounds they make while eating that make you want to put a fork through their face or stab them with a coffee table. – Gillian Jacobs, It’s Not You, It’s MeInterview
Comedians Bill Burr, Robert Kelly, and Joe DeRosa team up to make their own self-produced short film, Cheat. Together this trio brings to life the very funny story of a desperate guy getting advice from his buddies on how to pull off an unfaithful hook up.
The initial set-up leads you to believe this film is about something totally different, so that initial twist engaged me immediately. This is a very New York story, and the dialog is really well-written. The interaction between the three characters and comedic timing is spot on, which is no surprise considering the leads are all professional stand-up comedians. – Sharon Badal, Head Short Film Programmer, Tribeca Film Festival
Cheat Tribeca Interview – Bill Burr, Robert Kelly, Joe DeRosa
Cheat has also been written as a book which features hilarious tactics against monogamy:
* Wipe away your shame and guilt—and get smart before you get hard
* Conduct your filth with the right chick, in the right place, at the right time
* Take an hour to shower and scour—and fight your worst enemy: glitter
* Explain a strange scrunchy, hair extension, or pair of earrings to your girl
* Navigate strip clubs, massage parlors, and women of the night
* Lie like a woman—and call it quits without getting caught
The glories and pitfalls of immersing in vices are the focus of Jordan Vogt-Roberts‘s short film, Successful Alcoholics, which structures a young couple’s weekend meltdown into a perfectly timed dark comedy.
The drunk couple, played by Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) and T. J. Miller (Comedian), manages to excel at work, get out of tickets, and live without a care in the world, despite or because of the fact that they’re permanently shit-faced. The two drink, break shit, vomit, undress, curse, and still do better than everyone else. They manage to please everyone in the face of pretty ridiculous altercations, but when just for a night they lose their buzz, they start to question their own happiness.
With a premise that keeps the couple out of trouble, successful, and out of the humdrum of the everyday, Vogt-Roberts gives himself room to explore the real emotions regarding alcoholism.
> I’m Short, not Stupid: Succesful Alcoholics | VICE Shorts
A hilarious “documentary” on catnip abuse and addiction.
Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? This film frankly discusses the facts about this controversial substance. – Written and Directed by Jason Willis
Sight is a futuristic short film that depicts a reality where technology has merged with biology. Screens are no longer needed, all activities are now aided by computer apps that are controlled and seen through digital contact lenses. The fun benefits and complications of this possible technology are explored through a day in the life of the main character.
A Punisher short film starring Thomas Jane (who played The Punisher in the whack 2004 film) and Ron Pearlman. This short film is better than all of the Punisher feature films combined, it has the brutal violence and blunt punishment you expect from the comics.
“I wanted to make a fan film for a character I’ve always loved and believed in – a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It’s been a blast to be a part of from start to finish — we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.” — Thomas Jane