In honor of National Siblings Day, here’s a selection of Sundance Film Festival titles from filmmaker sibling duos. Sibling ingenuity and collaboration in film goes back to the beginnings of cinema with brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, pioneers in motion picture technology, narrative, and distribution. Whether it’s inventing entire fantastical universes like the Wachowskis or borrowing dad’s VHS camera like the Duplass brothers, the spirit of sibling creativity lives on in independent film.
306 Hollywood Directed by Elan and Jonathan Bogarin 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Do objects retain a spark of life from their owner after that person dies? This question catapults a dynamic brother-sister filmmaking duo on an epic odyssey to excavate their deceased grandma Annette’s unassuming Newark home of 71 years. Toothbrushes, tax documents, three vacuum cleaners—her motley collection of stuff becomes a universe unto itself, springing to life in the cinematic playground of this innovative documentary.
The Puffy Chair Written by Jay and Mark Duplass 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Josh has found a great present for his father’s birthday: a puffy chair exactly like the one his dad used to have. He just has to pick it up from the eBay seller and drive it over for the big surprise, staying over at his brother’s house on the way.
Bound Directed/Written by Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1996 Sundance Film Festival
Corky, an ex-con, who is fixing up an apartment in a high-class building, played with wonderful tongue-in-cheek flair and toughness by Gina Gershon, falls for Violet, the sexy moll of a Mafia money launderer who lives next door. Violet, played equally impeccably by Jennifer Tilly as the coquettish, “dumb” brunette, is also attracted to Corky, and once they’ve connected, both literally and figuratively, they concoct a plan to steal two million dollars.
This is My Life Written by Nora and Delia Ephron 1992 Sundance Film Festival
Dottie Ingalls works in the cosmetics department at Macy’s on Queens Boulevard and lives with her two daughters, sixteen-year-old Erica and ten-year-old Opal, and her Aunt Harriet in a row house in Ozone Park. Dottie’s dream is to become a performer, and the sudden death of Aunt Harriet gives her the nest egg to move to Manhattan and plunge into the late-night comedy scene. Meanwhile her daughters must adapt—to new schools, new friends, and most important, to their mother’s immediate success.
Blood Simple Written by Joel and Ethan Coen 1985 Sundance Film Festival
A great deal of dying is done in Blood Simple and none of it done right. The plot concerns four people—a bar owner, his wife, the bartender with whom the wife runs off, and the unscrupulous and scuzzy private detective hired by the forlorn husband to kill the runaway couple.
1. Film still courtesy of 306 Hollywood | Photo by Elan and Jonathan Bogarin; 2. Film still courtesy of The Puffy Chair; 3. Film still courtesy of Gramercy Pictures | Photo by Randy Tepper; 4. Film still courtesy of 20th Century Fox | Photo by Kerry Hayes; 5. Film still courtesy of USA Films.
AAAND HERE IT IS!!! oh my good god this thing was hell but its so worth it for lovely family moments.
Transcript will come inna second reblog!
For context, this is the boys first mothers day together, sonic has already had a kind of mothers day experience, and he’s trying to help the other two get used to it :) (also, maddie is wearing a head wrap ^-^)
Coming next for the Wachowski Family comics: Sonic and tails ;)
The matrix movies have always been, first and foremost, allegories about what it’s like to be trans and live with the lifelong terror that one will always be in the closet, always living a lie in which one must constantly pretend to be someone else—both to oneself and to society—never allowed to fully awaken to the truth of who one is and come out and live that truth authentically.
and we’re currently living in the midst of a huge conservative, terf, and fascist backlash against trans rights and trans safety.
so yeah, I’d say a matrix movie has never been more pertinent than it will be in 2021.
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