Monday, July 5, 2010

Lutz Mommartz: Weg zum Nachbarn (1968)



..... a ten minute Opus, which commentates Mommartz in such a way: "a girl communicates with the spectator." More indeed does not happen: .... but the it desireful face gives the viewer a hint, that this is not obligation exercise, but love. Mommartz is among the German film producers the purist. His scenes concentrate on the basic elements of movement and peace, of strain and slackening. He forces the spectator with the suggestiv power of repeated banality into the rhythm of its cinematic action.


(Thomas Schröder Die Welt 12.10.68)

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Vincent (1982)



Vincent is a stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. At approximately six minutes in length, there is currently no individual release of the film. It can be found on the Special Edition and Collector's Edition DVDs of The Nightmare Before Christmas as a bonus feature and on the Cinema16 DVD American Short Films.

The film is narrated by actor Vincent Price, a life-long idol and inspiration for Burton. From this relationship, Price would go on to appear in Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Vincent Price later said that the film was "the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality — better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard."

Vincent is the story of a young boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (who narrates the film). He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven". The film ends with Vincent being tortured by the goings-on of his make-believe world, quoting "The Raven" as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.

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