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I found a disc with only short films on it.

I came from the era when the movies always had shorts before the main feature.

At least a newsreel, perhaps a cartoon. Sometimes a small film about something esoteric. Time magazine had a regular film series called Time Marches On. This was all before television took the news over.

So, now, whenever I can, I take a look at shorts. Most film makers cut their teeth on shorter films and there are some DVD's devoted to this work.

Today's collection

Francois Ozon: A Curtain Raiser and Other Short Films (1993)

These are fun because they are also the early films of such stars as Louis Garrel and Mathieu Amalric

The quality of the films is uneven but some of the best are actually the very quick (and dirty) short shorts. A few gay ones are in this subset as well.

I am not sure if this disc is available in any other format than the Netflix Collection. If so, you are out of luck unless you belong to that service.

Labels: films, short films