N-?-2011 Title: Janked Score: A Comments: This film is definitely for the younger crowd.

It has a lot of borrowing from Guy Ritchies Snatch, which is actually pretty old by now. The style is double speed film, sound effects, short quick chops of back story frames, and current music. The characters are well developed with the exception of The Man with the Plan; he seems a little less sure of who he is. The format introduces all of the characters, after a prologue of a killing. The film is a bit too short in this regard because the actual stories for the characters are not even half baked they are barely warm. Most of the characters are eliminated by death. And in the end one is a vampire who ends up with the main character The Bag. Although it is not going to win an Oscar it is a fine revival of the Ritchie style. Title: This Side of Resurrection Score: C Comments: The actors were attractive and performing well. The cinematography was well thought out with scenes under water and above. The film was just too long and had long stretches of someone walking, someone riding a scooter along a road with no scenery, monks praying and people looking at the ocean. There were maybe twenty lines in the first hour and the action did not definitively support the story. The script didnt support the story. There wasnt any music to speak of it was not part of the film. If by art direction it is meant to show water a hundred and fifty ways they have that figured out. Costumes are contemporary but again well done, the pink robe against the yellow-green tree. The surfer is constantly wearing black in full sunlight. The clothes do support the story. There arent any special effects or even a gimmick of some kind to redeem the film in anyway. I would walk out on this film the way it is, it could be much shorter because where it takes you is not interesting.

Title: Itch of the Golden Nit Score: B Comments: I think this could be educational it was animated and voice-overed by kids the orchestra was kids and the script seems like it was done by kids. This was probably a school project financed by a grant. With-out the charm of being done by children it is a cartoon movie that is crude, flawed and uninteresting. The characters have no expressions or gestures they were produced with crayons. Its all very flat and lacks depth. Of course the main character is a louse or a louse egg that has the power to turn the sun back on. An evil sorceress wants to control the sun and everything else so she must have the Golden Nit. Title: Gotthard Schuh Score: B Comments: This film is a memoir of Gotthard Schuh a photographer who seems to have been exiled from Germany during WWII. There is an element of retracing his travels through Indo-China, which is dubious. In the first place it is modern cities and county side, in the second place there is the boring footage of looking straight down a road. The cinematographer doesnt look to the side to farmland or valleys; the focus is straight ahead until it is almost a claustrophobic tunnel. I expected to see a collection of his work but saw candid photos of him and his friends. The current footage is not helpful in building an image of what it might have been like at the time. The narration seems to be interesting but as it is sub-titled there may be quite a bit missing. I have seen many thing done with stills on film, yet here there are no attempts to manipulate the photos at all.