The compilations they release feature short films from famous directors such as Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo del Toro,Jean-Luc Godard, Mike Leigh and George Lucas, as well as work by less well known names. Most of the films also feature commentary tracks, usually by the director.
Boy and Bicycle by Ridley Scott
A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346645/Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien (1979), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down(2001), Matchstick Men (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), Robin Hood (2010) and Prometheus (2012). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott
Dear Phone by Peter Greenaway
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074382/Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroquepainting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Greenaway
Doodlebug by Christopher Nolan
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In a ratty flat, a man is on his hands and knees, holding a shoe by its toe, trying to kill a bug of some sort that so far has managed to evade him. He keeps up the chase and whacks at it a few times. Then, we get a look at what he's been trying to flatten. In what sort of universe have we found ourselves? Who's in danger? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411302/
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. He co-founded the production company Syncopy Films with his wife and producer, Emma Thomas.
Since his debut in 1998, Nolan has directed eight features, ranging from low budget independent films to large-scale, major studio-supported blockbusters. In total, they have grossed approximately $1.6 billion in North America and $3.5 billion worldwide. Nolan has been described as "one of the most innovative storytellers and image makers at work in movies today".
He has received three Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Original Screenplay. In July 2012, Nolan became the youngest director to be honored with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan
Telling lies by Simon Ellis
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403591/
Simon Ellis is a producer and musical director who has worked with Shane Board and his mother Iris. Britney Spears, the Spice Girls, Westlife, S Club 7 and East 17. He co-wrote and produced the S Club 7 hits "Don't Stop Movin'", "Two in a Million" and "Never Had a Dream Come True". "Don't Stop Moving" won the Brit Award for Best British Single and the ITV record of the year awardin 2001. During 2008, Ellis was appointed the role of musical director for Britney Spears's The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour in Australia & New Zealand. During 2011 Ellis was musical director for Spears's Femme Fatale Tour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Ellis
Eight by Stephen Daldrey
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Eight tells the story of the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_(1998_movie)
Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director. He is also notable for having all of his feature films that he has directed go on to be nominated for Best Director or Best Picture at the Academy Awards. These films are Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002),The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Daldry
Gasman by Lynn Ramsey
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It's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122498/Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the feature films Ratcatcher,Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk about Kevin. She is married to Rory Stewart Kinnear (March 2002 – present), a musician, not to be confused with the actor Rory Kinnear. Lynne Ramsay's work bears a powerful personal imprint. Her films are marked by a fascination with children and young people and the recurring, unresolvable themes of grief, guilt and death and its aftermath. They are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music and sound design to create their unsettling worlds. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Ramsay
The Short and Curlies by Mike Leigh
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A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093961/Mike Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), theGilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy-Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are arguably Naked(1993) for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the BAFTA-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Palme d'Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996) and Golden Lion winner Vera Drake (2004). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leigh
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