London’s The Bureau has its own approach to making great short films: sponsor and produce shorts by established-to-famous directors. Directors, who, I guess, couldn’t be bothered to cough up the five figures or so for their own damn short film? Whatever, the results can be seen intermittently at Cinema Extreme: Extreme Cinema, The Bureau’s screening program for big-name shorts.
This Sunday, in fact, shorts by Francois Ozon, Hal Hartley, Benoit Mariage, and Nic Roeg will be followed by a Q&A with Roeg. [via Kultureflash] details: Jan 24, 11:30 AM (!!) at the Curzon Soho, London, En-guh-land] No fair, short films in the UK get all the best time slots…
Related: The best-edited sex scene in the movies, from Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, which Soderbergh improved on in Out of Sight
buy Don’t Look Now or X2000, the early short films of Francois Ozon at Amazon
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the making of, by greg allen