Each year, the team at Etheria gathers a selection of some of the strongest short films made by female filmmakers in the realm of genre cinema. This year’ss selection was, as usual, very strong. This short film review roundup is dedicated to these creative ladies and their fantastic work:
Following an altercation outside of her work, a stripper ends up stuck inside with a religious protestor while the world seemingly is ending outside. As they work through their issues and try to get out alive while being followed by something malevolent.
BOOTLEG FILES 805: “Chagall” (1963 Oscar-winning documentary short narrated by Vincent Price).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
If you’re the type of a movie fan who feels the need to see every film that won an Academy Award, you probably experienced a frustrated pursuit of “Chagall,” which won the 1963 Best Documentary Short Subject. For many years, the film was very difficult to locate – there has never been a home entertainment release and it was absent from YouTube until last August when an unauthorized posting based on a McGraw-Hill Films educational market video popped up.
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Heads up: the sixth season of “The Online Movie Show,” hosted by Cinema Crazed’s Phil Hall, has come to a close and it will be on hiatus until the fall.
If you missed any of this season’s episodes – or the episodes of seasons that came before it – all 187 episodes can be found here.
Wendy, who carries her grand-mother’s name, is poised to receive a visit from a teen boy who she has been long told stories of. The women in her family all receive this visit and the temptation to leave forever.
Following a major score in a heist, Nick sees his crew turn on him and leave him for dead. As the stakes are high for him and his daughter, Nick races to find the culprits and get his score back.
BOOTLEG FILES 804: “Wacky Wigwams” (1942 animated short).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
Unless you are a die-hard animation aficionado, there’s an excellent chance that you are unfamiliar with the output of Columbia Pictures’ Screen Gems animation studio in the 1930s and 1940s. Truth be told, their films were never as invigorating or innovative as those from the major Hollywood animation studios of the time, and their obscurity was compounded by not being part of the television rerun culture that ensured cult status for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation.
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