During the Covid era, Necessity has given birth to many inventive movies. For obvious reasons these are often dark. But comedic storytellers have long known that humor can be discovered in the worst of times. And so we give you Philip Pugh’s very funny FaceTime movie, “The Maroon Jumper.” The director, based in Birmingham, England,…
read more →Dubbing is often used to improve the clarity of dialogue, for example, when a noisy environment interferes with what the performers are saying. . This technique might be labeled “functional dubbing.” But filmmakers have long understood that dialogue replacement has great comedic potential. You’ll see–and hear—a wonderful example of “creative dubbing” in “Felix,” a prize-winning…
read more →Make that a very, very dark comedy. In fact, Joel Perlgut’s “Sad Sachs”—which took the top prize at the Smartfone Flick Fest 2019—is about as dark as a comedy can get…while still being hilarious. The director even gets laughs out of a neo-Nazi sequence that Lenny Bruce probably would have loved. At SF3, the nine-minute…
read more →How much complexity can you build into a four minute movie? Plenty, as we see in “Connection” directed by Russian filmmaker Pavel Goncharov. A finalist in the 2019 FiLMiC Pro Fest, this comedic tear-jerker includes a painful romantic break-up, infidelity, new love, and loneliness. The plot rests on coincidence, a phenomenon that most people experience…
read more →Comedy isn’t just about making us laugh. As Moliere observed, “The duty of comedy is to improve people by amusing them.” This brings us to “Tough Crowd,” a short Apple-sponsored film directed by George Nolfi. Apple’s purpose was to show off the iPhone 11 Pro, with its ultra-wide angle lens and other new features. …
read more →Blake Calhoun isn’t the kind of filmmaker who repeats himself. His previous work includes a hard-boiled crime picture (“Miranda“) and a romantic comedy (“First Dance“). Now, with “The Movie Star” Calhoun gives us….something different. We can’t say the genre without giving away the story. Enough to say that “The Movie Star” is a lot of…
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