Short Films By Famous Directors

This weekend I have added another new page to my website filmsshort.com and, as is my wont, added an example to the top of the home page, in this case the example being Vincent by Tim Burton. 


For, the new page is Short Films By Famous Directors. It's strange to me how little is known about some of these short films when so much is known about these famous directors' feature films. 


My favourite director of all time is Kurosawa, but he doesn't have appeared to have made a short film (believe me, I looked!). However, Stanley Kubrick did make some short films and what's strange that his first two short films were in fact documentaries. The one I have added is his 1959 film  Day Of The Fight . It reminds me very much of feature length film, The Killing, which would in turn help mould directors such as Quentin Tarantino.


Who's the most famous director of them all? Steven Spielberg of course! 


Steven Spielberg has directed (and produced) some of the biggest feature films in box-office history (E.T., Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park). Many think of Duel as his first film, but that ignores Amblin', which would also be the name of his film production company. Spieleberg doesn't particularly like Amblin' - the dialogue-free tale of a couple hitchhickers meeting up as they cross the American desert - being shown but there are great moments that portend those in his feature films (the moon silhouette in E.T. an example)


James Cameron is hot on the heals of Spielberg. Avatar broke most box-office records despite having a script that felt like it was written by a twelve year old. Xenogenesis was made in 1978 and co-directed by Randall Frakes. James Cameron shows he had ambition from the beginning with this sci-fi short film. It is somewhat Tron-like and perhaps not the most polished film in the world but Cameron was only 23-years-old at the time and there are moments that would reappear in both The Terminator and Aliens.


The last film on my new page is Doodlebug by Christopher Nolan. If you don't know who Christopher Nolan is then visit my website. If you do - as I'm sure you do - visit it anyway!