Short Term 12 (2008)

The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) is a DVD collection of the early student and commissioned film work of American filmmaker David Lynch. As such, the collection does not include Lynch's later short work, which are listed in the filmography. The films are listed in chronological order, with brief descriptions of each film. The DVD contains introductions by Lynch to each film, which can be viewed individually or in sequence. # 1 Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times) # 2 The Alphabet # 3 The Grandmother # 4 The Amputee # 5 The Cowboy and the Frenchman # 6 Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

アナの誕生日の朝。エルサはこの日を完璧な一日にすべく、クリストフたちとともにとびきりのサプライズを準備していた。城中に張りめぐらされた赤い糸をたどっていくと、あちこちにアナへのプレゼントが隠されているという仕掛けだ。誕生日の特別なドレスに身を包み、エルサとアナは糸をたどり始める。だがエルサはどうやら風邪をひいたらしく、くしゃみが止まらない。心配するアナをよそに、ひとり張り切るエルサだった。

It's 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home. But as Brent's rise and demands for more money put him at odds with his boss, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer and his unstable lover who will stop at nothing to squash Cobra Video and steal its number one star.

シングルとアルバムの総売上は全世界で３億枚を越える伝説的ミュージシャン、シンガーソングライター“エルトン・ジョン”の半生を描いた話題のミュージカル超大作。

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.

田舎町に暮らす11歳の女の子ライリーは、父親の仕事の影響で都会のサンフランシスコに移り住むことになる。新しい生活に慣れようとするライリーの頭の中では、ヨロコビ、カナシミ、イカリ、ビビリ、ムカムカたちが、ライリーの幸せのためという強い気持ちが原因で衝突していて……。〈11歳の少女の頭の中を舞台に、喜び、怒り、嫌悪、恐れ、悲しみといった感情がそれぞれキャラクターとなり、物語を繰り広げるディズニー/ピクサーによるアニメ。田舎から都会への引っ越しで環境が変化した少女の頭の中で起こる、感情を表すキャラクターたちの混乱やぶつかり合いなどを描く。メガホンを取るのは、『モンスターズ・インク』や『カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家』などの監督ピート・ドクター。〉

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.

Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Gabriel rents a room in Juan’s House. They work together in a Woodwork place. Gabriel is a very quiet guy and has a little daughter. Juan is a party boy who has a lots of girls around. Inadvertently the sexual tension starts to grow between them. It opens a new hidden forbidden world they have to deal with.

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Steve Russell is a small-town cop. Bored with his bland lifestyle, Russell turns to fraud as a means of shaking things up. Before long, Russell's criminal antics have landed him behind bars, where he encounters the charismatic Phillip Morris. Smitten, Russell devotes his entire life to being with Morris regardless of the consequences.

Ruben and Carlos become cellmates in a minimum-security prison. While Ruben struggles to learn the ropes of daily life and where he falls in the complex hierarchical prison system, Carlos becomes a mentor and then eventually a lover. The two men develop feelings for one another they can't easily express. As time moves on and one of them is released before the other, there are questions looming as to whether what they had was real or simply out of the need for human connection.

砂漠の都アグラバー。貧しい若者アラジンは、泥棒と間違われていた娘ジャスミンを助け出し、代わりに捕まってしまう。なんとジャスミンは、王宮から抜け出してきた姫君だった。投獄されたアラジンは、王国乗っ取りを狙う大臣ジャファーの策略で、自由と引き換えに魔法のランプを探す旅に出発することになった。洞窟の奥でランプを発見したアラジンが偶然ランプをこすったところ、なんと中からランプの精ジーニーが現われた。

エルサとアナの仲良し姉妹は、幼いころに起きた事件以来、ずっとはなればなれでした。今日は、そんな二人が久しぶりに一緒に迎えたクリスマス。ところが、アレンデール中どの家にもあるクリスマスのならわしが、長い間はなれて育った姉妹には、何もなかったのです。さびしそうな二人のために立ち上がったのはオラフでした。

The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course in the holiday. But just when he thinks he has everything for their quiet family Christmas just right, there is a knock at the door.

王家の姉妹エルサとアナ。触れるもの全てを凍らせてしまう“禁断の力”を持つ姉エルサは、妹アナを傷つけることを恐れて、幼い頃からその力を隠し続けてきた。だが、エルサが新女王となる戴冠式で、彼女は“禁断の力”を制御できずに夏の王国を真冬に変えてしまう。城から逃げ出した彼女は自分の心と持てる力を解き放ち、雪と氷を操って一人だけの冬の王国を作り上げる。一方、エルサの秘密と思いを初めて知ったアナは、姉と冬に閉ざされてしまった王国を救うため、山男のクリストフとトナカイのスヴェン、“夏に憧れる雪だるま”のオラフと共にエルサが築いた氷の城へ向かう。どうすれば凍りついてしまった心と世界は救えるのか？全世界を席巻した、心揺さぶるミュージカル・ナンバーと圧巻の映像でを描いた感動の物語。

In the dirtiest, funniest, most scandalous gay-teen-sex-comedy-parody ever, four young gay friends make a pact to lose their virginity by the end of the summer. The boys soon face giant sex toys, naked celebrities, masochistic teachers and an uncontrollable romance with a quiche.

師匠のシーフー老師に連れられて新たな修行へと向かうポーだが、そこではカンフー・マスターになるための最大の試練が待ち受けていた。

A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French sex worker during World War I.

A writer suffering a block decides to watch a young woman as a role model for his novel, but finds more than he bargained for.

On a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors.

A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, Northern Morocco. The life of the people here has been shaped by the drug hashish for centuries. Hashish as daily work, hash as exchange currency, hashish as business, hashish as basis and philosophy of a social system, hashish as medium for dreams and hashish as reason for stagnation.

A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.

A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and danger bond father and son.

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.

An experimental film dedicated to the Dakota Sioux, which follows the form of the Christian Mass. A series of images of contemporary America interwoven with the ritual spiriting away of a dead Indian.

7362 is concerned with dividing and joining together. It begins with two black circles against a white background, knocking together and gradually moving further apart. The circles fade out, and return as white circles against black inside a square. Images similar to Rorschach blots appear. Gradually the viewer realizes that the images were not originally abstract, but were human forms (dancers, gymnasts, etc.), bridges, and others that have been split down the center of the frame, with their mirror images printed on either side of the split. Red, green, and white tints further abstract the images from their original foundations in the natural world, making dancers appear to be amoebas or dividing cells. The accompanying sound track is a mixture of electronic music and musique concrète ("real" recorded sounds manipulated to sound abstract).

A graduate student's vengeful ex-roommate refuses to let him retrieve an important book that he needs for his dissertation on Charles Dickens.

3年間一緒に住んでいたリンコと大学院生のイサムは、うまくいかなくなり別れようとする。ところが友達以上恋人未満の関係にリンコは心地よさを覚え、これまで通りの生活をずるずると続ける中、まだイサムのことが好きだと気付く。しかし、イサムの心は自分に好意を寄せる後輩に傾き始めていた。

Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber band pistols.

In this live-action, Oscar-nominated short from Denmark, Asbjorn is a patient admitted to a Danish hospital, who quickly warms to a painting of a whimsical pig hung on the walls. It becomes a source of comfort and solace for him - until another patient has it removed by request (Written by Nathan Southern, Rovi)

Haiti. Uden title is a kaleidoscopic, dramatic documentary from this chaotic Caribbean country and comprises a mixture of material on video, 16 mm and 35 mm, dating in some scenes right back shooting on Leth's Udenrigskorrespondent (1982).

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.

Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs.

On a day in early summer, two young men play squash, a lifeguard watches an indoor pool, a young woman shelves books at a store, another stages a puppet show for children in a park, an older woman cooks, and Manon gets on her bicycle to ride to a rendezvous with her boyfriend. She turns a corner. Something happens. As she lies on the asphalt, a crowd gathers around her and an ambulance arrives; we hear her voice, first confused as to what has happened, then telling us how her friends and her mother will receive word, and how her friends will gather to talk. As images move back and forth in time, she remembers recent events and expresses some small regrets.

Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. Lee travels the globe from the American Midwest to Europe to Japan to try to express the appeal of music often dismissed as soulless. Modulations shows that behind even the most foreign or alien electronic composition lies a real human being, and Lee lets many of these Frankenstein-like creators express and expound upon their personal philosophies and tech-heavy theories. Lee understands that a cultural movement as massive and diverse as dance music can't be contained.

This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.