Narrative
see all genres ›As short story is to novel, the narrative short is to the fiction feature: a storytelling miniature that can deliver maximum potency and detail within a minimalist expanse.
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Huntingdon's Hero
HUNTINGDON'S HERO is a "local talent film" made in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. The good-natured and charming HUNTINGDON'S HERO was made in the eponymous central Pennsylvania college town by Donald Newland, an itinerant filmmaker active in the 1920s through the mid-1930s, who...Watch Movie
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Epilogue
At the end of his greatest adventure, Skillman has vanquished his nemesis, recovered the priceless artifact and saved his latest lover from certain doom. But as he struggles to figure out what comes next, his lady begins to realize her confident, capable man hasn't the first clue what to do once...Watch Movie
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Easy Street
Charlie Chaplin's last four Mutual-Chaplin Specials are among his finest work. While each of the preceding Mutual comedies took approximately one month each to make, Chaplin took more time with the last four (ten months in total), which extended his twelve-month contract period to approximately...Watch Movie
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Rat Pack Rat
Eddie plays a Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator hired via Craigslist to perform for a boy's birthday party. He arrives at the boy's home, meets the boy's mother and finds her living in a hoarder house. Despite the bleak surroundings, the woman is full of life and excited to meet Sammy Davis, Jr....Watch Movie
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Bobbycrush
Cam Archer caught the attention of such major-league admirers as Gus Van Sant and Scott Rudin (later producers on his 2006 feature WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN) with this freeform debut short. Its teenage blond hero muses upon his boy-crush with a peer in a dreamily romantic mix of grainy,...Watch Movie
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The Lumberjack
THE LUMBERJACK is the oldest film shot in Wisconsin that still exists in its original, complete form. Produced by the Paragon Feature Film Company an itinerant film company out of Omaha, Nebraska and cast with Wausau, Wisconsin locals, the short, silent one-reeler tells a romantic story set...Watch Movie
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Caught Looking
This "tele-erotica" exercise follows an unnamed "Voyeur" (Louis Selwyn) as he gets a freewheeling first tour of the titular website (which offers "the highest quality in virtual sex"). Answering (but also sometimes frustrating) his every whim, it offers in turn sexy vignettes in a retro boarding...Watch Movie
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The Adventurer
Charlie Chaplin and his brother Sydney went to San Francisco for a vacation after completing THE IMMIGRANT. Chaplin was growing tired from the hectic pace of the series; four months passed before the last film, THE ADVENTURER, was released, the longest interval between films for Chaplin in his...Watch Movie
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Look at the Sun
For thousands of years, humanity has watched the sun with a mixture of fear and awe, believing without knowing why, that our lives depend on its mysterious undulations. Today, technology has sharpened the view and revealed fantastic, explosive visions roiling a chaotic surface, but what has...Watch Movie
