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Monday, May 10
MONSTERS IN NEW YORK: THE WOLFMAN
by
Lloydville
on Mon 10 May 2010 12:39 AM PDT
 Majestic Micro Movies is excited to welcome a new director into the ranks, the super versatile Matt Barry, and the start of a new series, Monsters In New York. Check it out: The Wolfman In New York Check out previous Majestic Micro Movies here: YouTube and here: Facebook Fan Page Wednesday, April 7
MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: CHAMPS CONTRE CHAMPS
by
Lloydville
on Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:39 AM PDT
 [Photo by Jae Song] Another micro movie essay on cinema, from the usual suspects, Kendra and the three J's -- Champs Contre Champs, French for shot-countershot, one of Jean-Luc Godard's bêtes noires. Find out why! Micro Movie Essay #4 -- Champs Contre Champs: YouTube Facebook Fan Page Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything. Monday, April 5
MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: TRACKING
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Lloydville
on Mon 05 Apr 2010 04:08 AM PDT
 Kendra, James, Joe and Jae return in a new essay on cinema -- Tracking! -- which critics are already calling the greatest micro movie ever made. Personally, I don't see how it can ever be surpassed. Craig Schober records sound and helps move the platform! David Ure assists! The screen explodes with excitement! Micro Movie Essay #3 -- Tracking: YouTube Facebook Fan Page Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything. Wednesday, March 24
TRIPLE PORTRAIT
by
Lloydville
on Wed 24 Mar 2010 12:11 AM PDT
 Kendra Elliott, star of two essays on cinema by Jae Song from Majestic Micro Movies , draws remarkable pictures and has a blog, Human Faced Dog. This has been a public service announcement. Monday, March 15
MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: SHALLOW FOCUS
by
Lloydville
on Mon 15 Mar 2010 12:01 AM PDT
 Kendra Elliot returns in the stunning sequel to Deep Focus . . . Micro Movie Essay #2 -- Shallow Focus: YouTube Facebook Fan Page Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything. Saturday, March 13
MICRO MOVIE ESSAY: DEEP FOCUS
by
Lloydville
on Sat 13 Mar 2010 07:47 AM PST
 In a stunning departure which has left the film world breathless, Majestic Micro Movies launches a new series -- miniature essays on cinema by Jae Song and friends, dedicated with much love to J-L G. First up: Micro Movie Essay #1 -- Deep Focus: YouTube Facebook Fan Page Prescription for the future of cinema -- go back to the beginning and rethink everything. Thursday, March 11
THERE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER BAR
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Lloydville
on Thu 11 Mar 2010 12:01 AM PST
 . . . at the dark end of the street. Hugh McCarten stars in the newest Noir Bars: New York offering from Majestic Micro Movies -- a series of extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on the boulevard of broken dreams . . . now playing on a computer or portable device near you: Noir Bar #8 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. Tuesday, March 9
IN RETROSPECT
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Lloydville
on Tue 09 Mar 2010 10:59 AM PST
 You know what that means . . . The latest offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . now playing on a computer or portable device near you: Noir Bar #7 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. Wednesday, March 3
A DARKER SHADE OF NOIR
by
Lloydville
on Wed 03 Mar 2010 12:34 AM PST
 A new offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . this one featuring Kristy Jordan, who is not guilty, baby . . . now playing on a computer or portable device near you: Noir Bar #6 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. Tuesday, March 2
DUBAI BLUES
by
Lloydville
on Tue 02 Mar 2010 05:32 PM PST
 A new offering in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets . . . this one featuring Matt Barry and now playing on a computer or portable device near you: Noir Bar #5 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. Saturday, February 27
NOIR BARS #4
by
Lloydville
on Sat 27 Feb 2010 12:19 AM PST
 The fourth movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on dead-end streets. Now playing on a computer or portable device near you -- a report from girlworld: Noir Bar #4 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. Tuesday, February 23
A NEW APPROACH TO NARRATIVE
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Lloydville
on Tue 23 Feb 2010 12:43 AM PST
 Following up on a previous essay, "An Experiment In Narrative", Matt Barry has written a broader survey of the state of Internet cinema, in which he argues that the term "short film", with all its (increasingly irrelevant) cultural baggage, needs to be abandoned. Distinguishing something as a "short film" implies that regular films are "long", but today, on the Internet, regular films are short -- long films are the exception. In some ways it would make more sense to refer to those things they're showing at the multiplexes as "long films".  The question, of course, is one of orientation in a time when the mainstream of cinema is shifting. I would guess that for most people under the age of forty, most of the films they watch in any given year, by far, are short Internet movies -- feature-length films, seen in theaters or on DVD, would run a distant second. So what do we mean when we talk about "the movies" today? Where is the real center of the form? Matt also makes a useful distinction between "narrative" and "story". To my way of thinking, a narrative, a logical exposition of a sequence of events, is not by any means always a story. To me, a story is something that makes you lean forward and say, "Wait a minute, how did this happen -- what's going to happen next?" A narrative doesn't automatically do this. Check out the essay here: "A New Approach To Narrative" Sunday, February 21
PARADISE RECLAIMED
by
Lloydville
on Sun 21 Feb 2010 12:29 AM PST
 [Photo © 1960 William Klein] An excerpt from a 2000 profile of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody in The New Yorker: During our interview, Godard referred to the New Wave not only as "liberating" but also as "conservative." On the one hand, he and his friends saw themselves as a resistance movement against "the occupation of the cinema by people who had no business there." On the other, this movement had been born in a museum, the Cinémathèque: Godard and his peers were steeping themselves in a cinematic tradition -- that of silent films -- that had disappeared almost everywhere else. Thus, from the beginning, Godard saw the cinema as a lost paradise that had to be reclaimed. If love of the cinema of the past doesn't point the way to new, revolutionary work -- as love of ancient Greek art sparked the innovations of the Renaissance -- then it's just an exercise in nostalgia. In other words, the cinema of the past can be alive as a cultural force, as it was for the young French cinéastes of the Fifties, just as ancient Greek art was alive for the artists of the Renaissance. The parade has not gone by -- it may even be passing this way: Majestic Micro Movies MMM Facebook Fan Page Saturday, February 20
NOIR BARS #3
by
Lloydville
on Sat 20 Feb 2010 04:57 PM PST
 The third movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in desolate bars on dead-end streets. Now playing on a computer or portable device near you -- a whole chain reaction of disaster: Noir Bar #3 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. [Image by Alfred Stieglitz, 1903] Wednesday, February 17
ANOTHER NOIR BAR
by
Lloydville
on Wed 17 Feb 2010 08:07 AM PST
 Now playing on a computer or portable device near you . . . the second movie in the Noir Bars: New York series from Majestic Micro Movies -- extremely short tales of lost souls in dark bars on dead-end streets. Have a look: Noir Bar #2 YouTube Facebook Fan Page Watch all the films in the series as they roll out, then order a stiff drink and try to forget them. [Some explicit language in this one.] |
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