Film Ten Minutes Older is a dyptic of portmaneau films with the subheadings The Cello and The Trumpet, in which a group of directors offer a visual meditation on the subject of time. As you would expect, it's a bit hit and miss. Some of the work is horrifyingly pretentious, and in terms of sheer entertainment, The Trumpet wins because of some short documentaries about a lost tribe and the 2000 US election by Werner Herzog and Spike Lee respectively. I've put all of the segments I can find on YouTube into this playlist, though mainly it's fragments or dubbed into another language. As ever the best way to experience the adventure is on film or dvd.
Arguably the best of the films is this sci-fi offering from Michael Radford. It's too short for me to spoil by offering a plot synopsis, but it is well worth ten minutes of your life, even if only to see Roland Gift from The Fine Young Cannibals and Daniel Craig playing astronauts:
Sometimes the most epic of dramas can fit snuggly into ten minutes.
No comments:
Post a Comment