Samson Peabody-Jones sets out to conquer the untamed west in 1881, in this remarkable film featuring a cast and crew of 100 talented school children. You'll enjoy the escapades of Peabody-Jones as he braves the frontier in search of adventure and finds a life of danger as well as rewards. It takes a miner's ghost, a mysterious parcel and finally the U.S. Cavalry to bring the story to a happy ending. A recommended featurette, with an excellent and original soundtrack score, but very difficult to find.
A hilarious modern musical melodrama written and directed by TJ Davis. It’s a rip-roaring’ Western adventure starring audience favorites Jordan Todd Brown as Ex-US Marshall Big Guns Bo Garrett and Slater Ashenhurst as notorious Frenchman Jaques Javert! After joining forces, the two lawbreakers find themselves handcuffed and humiliated, just inches from meeting their Maker when by luck they are freed to live another day. Angry, embarrassed, and fueled by their desire for revenge, they set into motion a maniacal scheme which culminates in a deadly western shootout unlike anything the West has ever seen!
The dogma who escapes the freakshow will find out that the world can be an even worst scenary, while a lone cowboy searching for his lost love will fight his demons...
Idiris Kabel has come a long way. After four magical seasons and a tumultuous, heart-wrenching fifth, he’s thankful for the mysteries, friendships, loves, and challenges that have set the stage for Season Six. But this is a different kind of story — complete with an all-star cast, haunting memories, formidable villains, and sobering lessons — that will change the young starlet’s life forever.
The film misses the beginning and an end, and hence becomes an experimental noir in the nights of Jaipur, where two people connect over cinema and start a friendly gambling session with the intention of making some petty money in order to pay off their gambling debts.
Dean extrapolated landscape images from 1920s Ford advertisements, leaving out the cars to focus on their representations of place and nature. She made the animation using a digital version of a multiplane camera technique employed in early Disney films to create an immersive and 3D illusion by separating two-dimensional images. This technique was itself inspired by Ford’s assembly line; Dean uses it to explore historical depictions of the American dream, exaggerating the subject matter’s fantastical style. [Overview courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art]
Broncho Billy intoxicated, enters Brown's general store, knocks over a barrel of brooms, and is about to help himself to the chewing tobacco, when the grocer interferes. Brown finally shoots Broncho Billy in the wrist. Mary Walker, a villageite enters, and discovering Broncho Billy suffering from the wound, washes and bandages it for him.
Setting West was made using original printing materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as wood type, borders and stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians”, trains and bison. These words and images were printed directly onto 35mm clear film stock at eminent letterpress studios in North America: the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, the Hatch Show Print in Nashville and the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec & Lovell Litho in Montréal. Judith Poirier printed 1,643 feet of film to produce her abstract western and her technique of printing onto celluloid creates a unique texture on screen, as well as generating an original soundtrack. Setting West reinterprets a classic cinematic genre while exploring a formative period in the history of typography and printing.
Jake, a professional athlete (at county level) runs in a school race with some “awesome running”. In a scene deemed too emotional for the wider public, Jake falls over dramatically and breaks his ank. It is unclear what happened when filming this scene, just that something strange and paranormal occurred, thus the film was cut. In another mysterious scene, in the medical room, Jake tells his PE teacher that he's really upset because he lost the race to be told in a sadistic manner that he can't run for another 6 months and he'll just have to suck it up. Some claim that the shot of Jake’s feet are to pay homage to Quentin Tarantino and others claim something more serious happened, either way early viewers claimed to feel nauseous. Then, 6 months later Jake runs again and in a Christopher Nolan-Inception way, it ends with us never knowing if he won the race, however this is unconfirmed and rumors suggests the results of the race are so shocking, it was cut to protect audiences.