June 26, 2003

Shorts, 6/26.

A short. To read. The Last Hour of Guy Debord. A film by David Cox.

Carabinieri

On an otherwise relatively quiet day, Screen Daily reports that Lukas Moodysson's "latest project Terrorister – En Film Om Dom Domda (Terrorists – A Film About Those Who Were Sentenced) is a gritty and unflinching documentary about some of the young Swedish activists who were imprisoned following the riots that took place at the EU summit in Goteborg in June 2001."

Now, even though there has been a documentary on the riots that followed a month later in Genoa, if only someone of Moodysson's caliber - or Errol Morris's - would do some digging into what has been revealed since about the Italian police instigating the violence then and its repercussions on the global justice movement now.

A.E. Souzis caught a short series in May honoring the work of the late cinematographer Conrad Hall and writes in PopMatters: The four films in 'Light and Shadows: Conrad Hall' - Cool Hand Luke (1967), In Cold Blood (1967), Incubus (1965), and Fat City (1972) - aptly demonstrate Hall's artistry and underline his inventiveness."

It's all undead all the time at the LA Weekly film section this week. Ron Stringer talks to Guy Maddin, Andrew Johnston talks to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, and John Powers reviews their new movies, respectively, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary and 28 Days Later.

Online viewing tip. Nakd.tv. Via Newstoday.

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Posted by dwhudson at June 26, 2003 6:20 AM

Comments

Hall also did some spectacular work on the first season of The Outer Limits (Leslie Stevens would also tap him out for Incubus). Hall's early television work often goes unnoticed in retrospectives, but it's just as daring and innovative as anything else he's done in his career -- possibly more impressive given that it involved 32 hours over a year.

Posted by: Ed at June 26, 2003 11:49 AM

Well, heavens, Ed, great to see you back! I do like that "Recent Viewings" section at the new blog.

At any rate, yes, one of the pluses of the PopMatters pieces is that he makes sure you realize he's just scratching the surface. As for that Outer Limits output in terms of both quality and quantity... for some things, you just have to be young. [g]

Posted by: David Hudson at June 26, 2003 1:02 PM