tiny furniture is a 2010 american independent comedy-drama film written , directed by , and starring lena dunham .

the film premiered at south by southwest , where it won the award for best narrative feature , screened at such festivals as maryland film festival , and was released theatrically in the united states on november 12 , 2010 .

dunham ’s own mother , the artist laurie simmons , plays aura ’s mother , while her real sister , grace , plays aura ’s on-screen sibling .

the actors jemima kirke and alex karpovsky would also appear in dunham 's television series girls .

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tiny furniture <EOT> a scene from lena dunham’s “tiny furniture . ” [ photo courtesy of ifc films ]

with that in mind , watching tiny furniture is a great lesson of creativity within constraints .

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before girls , there was tiny furniture , the film that introduced us to lena dunham’s fully formed voice .

“tiny furniture” is a quiet movie without a lot of action , but the insecure , unsure heroine is someone many women can identify with –– even if it’s just a tiny part of them .

lena dunham plays aura and alex karpovsky plays jed , a youtube star who treats dunham poorly , in her film tiny furniture .

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tiny furniture is an observant portrait of those frustrating , entitled , complicated , unflattering moments when you suspect you could be everything but feel like nothing .

tiny furniture , lena dunham’s ( writer - director - star ) first feature film , premiered at sxsw in 2010 and won the jury prize , setting forth the career that dunham has today . tiny furniture centers on aura ( dunham ) who returns home to new york after graduating from her ohio college .

lena dunham plays aura and alex karpovsky plays jed , a youtube star who treats dunham poorly , in her film tiny furniture . joe anderson via ifc films hide caption

lena dunham ' s big dreams rest on ' tiny furniture ' the filmmaker was just 23 years old when she won the south by southwest jury prize for her second film , tiny furniture . the comedy stars dunham and her real - life mom and sister playing fictionalized versions of themselves in their real - life apartment in new york city .

without tiny furniture it’s hard to imagine that girls would have ever existed , or if it did , it may not have ever reached the popularity and influence it has today . executive producer of girls , judd apatow , reached out to lena dunham after watching tiny furniture and the rest is history . if you like hbo’s girls , enjoy the independent film world , and / or just want to watch someone else struggle through adulthood without looking in the mirror , i recommend checking out tiny furniture as soon as you can .

lena dunham ( background ) cast her real - life mom , laurie simmons , to play her , uh , mom in ' tiny furniture . ' ( anderson / ap )

dunham is a writer and filmmaker living in new york with her parents and her sister . she was recently nominated for two independent spirit awards for her work on tiny furniture .

“tiny furniture” has won several awards , including the prestigious jury prize at the south by southwest independent film festival in austin , texas . but it has brought dunham more than accolades .

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she wrote “tiny furniture” in a four - day fever in october , shot the film in november and after getting a waiver for a late submission , sent it to sxsw in january .

tiny furniture was shot using the canon 7d on a very low budget ( most sources are saying below $ 50 , 000 ) . the first draft of the scrip for tiny furniture was written quickly over a few days . when they had the script ready to shoot , they made the decision to use the 7d and they shot over the course of a few weeks .

tiny furniture is available to stream on netflix and showtime , and is available for rental on amazon , itunes and more . it can also be purchased through the criterion collection web store .

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another particularity of tiny furniture , which i found refreshing , was that it is almost entirely shot camera on tripod . dunham compensates an absence of camera movement with rich settings and , again ,

never overrun by the self - conscious quirk or straining obnoxious affectation of some of her peers’ films , dunham’s tiny furniture is a modest , honest confessional that finds joy and poignancy in the tiny , awkward , stupid moments in life , and points to the emergence of a potentially giant talent .

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“tiny furniture” remains available on demand and continues to play throughout the u . s . a full list of screenings can be found here . the spirit awards will air on ifc on february 26th .

dunham is a writer and filmmaker living in new york with her parents and her sister . she was recently nominated for two independent spirit awards for her work on tiny furniture . lena dunham hide caption

• i made this experimental feature as a response to mumblecore crap like tiny furniture . it was a complete joke , made to be unwatchable , and ironically it ' s my most viewed movie . urltoken

her parents are artists carroll dunham and laurie simmons , the latter of whom appeared as her fictional mother in tiny furniture . she ' s also been in a relationship with musician jack antonoff since 2012 .

taken at face value , tiny furniture is an amiable comedy - drama with an unlikely heroine and an assortment of quirky supporting characters . the picture is more intriguing , though , when you consider its unusual casting .

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dunham joined terry gross for a conversation about tiny furniture , which she wrote , starred in and directed ( earning a second sxsw festival award , the " chicken and egg " prize for an emergent woman narrative filmmaker ) .

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we classified tiny furniture as a successful dslr film for many reasons . not only was it added to the criterion collection roster of films , picked up for a distribution deal by ifc and won two prestigious awards at sxsw . but the director of tiny furniture , lena dunham , was also chosen as one of the “25 new faces” by filmmaker magazine . on top of all of this success , the writer / director landed a deal with hbo to direct the hit series “girls” .

before her critically acclaimed new hbo series girls ( premiering this weekend ) , before her breakthrough feature tiny furniture , writer - director - actor lena dunham had already made a name for herself posting short films on youtube . check out one of the…

that’s what ori , a robotic furniture system designed for tiny apartments , would allow you to do . it’s a single plywood unit that can act as a bed , home office , closet and storage space , and it changes configurations on command .

throughout the day , the apartment keeps shifting . the furniture inside is designed to transform easily from use to use–working , eating , watching a movie , sleeping–and as someone moves the furniture around , the projections on the walls automatically transform as well .

lena dunham is a good contact to have in the movie business . just ask her sister , mother , best friends and neighbors . those are the people she cast to co - star with her in the largely autobiographical , independent film “tiny furniture . ”

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disagree with you mike . tiny furniture is a interesting film and girls is one of the best shows on tv right now , in my opinion . just because you don ' t get it or like it doesn ' t mean it isn ' t good .

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at least judd apatow and hbo seem to think so – or hope so . based on the festival success of tiny furniture , apatow has shepherded dunham onto the small screen , where she will write , direct and star in her own series , girls , this coming spring ( which based on the trailer looks to be much a continuation of the style of this film ) . and criterion , a generally reliable indicator of established or nascent genius , is already on board with dunham , releasing tiny furniture in an impressively robust two disc set .

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over the course of 19 days in 2009 , the " girls " creator filmed her acclaimed independent feature film , " tiny furniture " at the loft , which is housed inside a former textile warehouse and is owned by her parents , fine artists laurie simmons and carroll dunham .

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ori is taking the tiny home movement to a whole new level . a startup born out of a mit media lab project , ori thinks furniture should be able to change form and function with one tap from your smartphone . and the company hired yves béhar to make it happen .

located on the side of the furniture module is a pyramid - shaped control panel , which features buttons for altering the layout and lighting .

the film’s title , “tiny furniture , ” derives from the art of the mother character , played by laurie simmons , who in real life is a very successful fine - art photographer whose work often involves dolls and dioramas and who is married to the painter carroll dunham . in ms . dunham’s film , aura’s mother makes photographs by moving teeny pieces of furniture around while juxtaposing them with larger human elements that don’t seem to fit .

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as someone who has screaming matches with her ikea furniture during the build phase , i imagine struggling to assemble furniture that brings robotics into the equation . the good news is that ori handles the installation for individual customers , while developers might someday outfit apartment units before occupants move in .

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austin , tex . — in the movie “tiny furniture , ” a young woman named aura breaks up with her boyfriend , returns home from college , moves in with her wildly successful artist family in a pristine tribeca loft , all the while trying to find a place to stand in the world .

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and yet aura does this without destroying the ease of the viewing experience . “tiny furniture” is conventionally entertaining without relying on a string of clichés , resulting in an unlikely combination that makes the occasional unevenness of the screenplay a lot more bearable than the neat , sappy design of “love and other drugs . ”

shot on location in her mother’s nyc loft , and filmed on a small budget with a minuscule cast in a short timeframe of just 18 days , “tiny furniture” might be considered a small movie , but it’s got a big heart — dunham said she considers the movie a love letter to her family .

there is a strange space between when you leave school and when you begin work . you are idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean . you grow restless . you cannot go back and are uncertain how to proceed . " tiny furniture " is about aura , who is becalmed on that sea .

sensor - rigged actuators control the moving and sliding . those sensors are embedded as a safety precaution , to avoid moving furniture into or onto someone .

if i counted well , tiny furniture is composed of 70 scenes ( we probably can debate that number ) . out of these 70 scenes , 19 consisted of a single take , and 13 of two shots , which means that almost half of the movie is built on : dialogs and composition within the frame .

the system is now in beta testing and is a business - to - business product . ori is working with luxury developers boston properties , skanska and samuels associates to install the furniture in high - end rentals in boston . the start - up is working with designer yves béhar on the furniture designs .

but the hype surrounding “tiny furniture” is deserved . dunham captures the pains of a creative person with some big shoes to fill , who has come of age in a generation bred on relentless exhibitionism . most successfully , the film and the naturalistic way it was made allow for the ambiguities of real life to come through .

both “tiny furniture” and “drugs” center on twentysomething women unsure of what they want to do with their lives ( and to fill their empty schedules , both aura and maggie take jobs waiting tables ) . while maggie’s predicament runs deeper than aura’s , hathaway’s stardom makes it impossible to believe that everything has gone awry for her character , whereas aura’s frustrations feel comparatively legitimate . even so , dunham has an ear for dialogue that lends a brisk , fun sensibility to “tiny furniture” even as she colors outside the lines of industry norms . that’s not to say the movie lacks issues of its own ; rather , the dunham factor overpowers many of them .

i ' m sorry , but lena dunham is the product of nepotism , not merit , so she shouldn ' t be taken seriously nor should she be giving advice . tiny furniture is horrible and to say that $ 65 , 000 is not much to work with on a mumblecore film is a disgrace to all filmmakers .

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demonstrating the issue , an illustrator built a tiny wooden bedroom for himself in a friend ' s living room to avoid paying san francisco ' s " absurdly high " rents .

winner of the narrative feature prize at the sxsw film festival , “tiny furniture” should strike a responsive chord in anyone who remembers — or is experiencing — that post - college period in life when you’re impatiently eager to invent yourself , yet hesitant to get started . written and directed by newcomer lena dunham , who also plays the [ … ]

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that’s also the story , more or less , of lena dunham , 23 , who wrote , directed , and played the lead role in the film , which sounds like a senior project gone amok , except that “tiny furniture” won the juried narrative film prize — essentially the best feature film — at the south by southwest music and media conference here .

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the title “tiny furniture” refers explicitly to the art work that siri makes at home , as well as to the ways in which—as the film follows aura to jobs , trysts , and parties in the months immediately following her graduation from college into an unwelcoming economy—replication is utilized in art and reality is reduced to plaything . it also seems to refer to the film’s “alice in wonderland” quality . almost every character seems a study in some kind of mental illness , and , as when alice devours the eat me cake , the furniture can grow suddenly tiny around aura—who looms large in her own mind , though , to her credit , she seems always game and rarely defeated , despite all . she almost never says no .

i would not like to rally for a hundred “tiny furniture” clones , but only for an uptick of young anti - heroes willing to look imperfect in close - ups . when life appears unflattering , it also seems more honest : the affluent , vanilla insularity of aura’s world invites plenty of resentment for her whiny demeanor , but since she embraces her life as a spoiled brat , dunham leaves room for interpretation . you can read “tiny furniture” as an indictment of lazy rich kid behavior or a tentative defense for it . ( her comparatively sane younger sister offers a de facto argument in favor of their surroundings , suggesting aura’s bitchy soul - searching has more to do with her internal issues than a cushy upbringing . )

production : a submarine entertainment presentation of a tiny ponies production . produced by kyle martin , alicia van couvering . co - producer , alice wang . directed , written by lena dunham .

much has been made of dunham’s willingness to display her body in both tiny furniture and girls , her lack of fear about being subject to scrutiny that terrifies actresses whose bodies more clearly conform to hollywood standards . but what’s radical about dunham isn’t just her willingness to take off her clothes , but what kinds of stories she tells about herself , both clothed and nude .

production posse : dunham has worked frequently with mentor judd apatow , and appeared in his 2012 film this is 40 . she also cast friends alison williams , zosia mamet , and jemima kirke on girls to play her best friends ; kirke in particular appeared in her early film tiny furniture . she ' s even featured her mother laurie simmons and sister grace in multiple projects .

creative nonfiction ’s necessity in her evolution towards the drastically more mature tiny furniture is obvious : she’s trying things on , seeing what works and what doesn’t—e . g . a meta - story , involving a teenage girl ( also played by dunham ) kidnapped and harried by a lecherous high school teacher is too clever by half for what dunham is trying to do and say , but is exactly the sort of “too clever” a college student would think was brilliant , even if it falls flat in execution . fortunately , by the time she gets to making tiny furniture ( not long after making her student film ) , she has already recognized what needs cutting and paring down and where her true strengths lie , which only augurs well for her continued work .

a bay area couple dreams of the flexibility and financial freedom of downsizing to a 220 - square - foot tiny home . the team builds one of their most ambitious tiny homes to date which includes automated staircases and a 160 - square - foot rooftop deck . the couple also wants to connect with nature , so michelle and the design team incorporate wood elements and live plants into the home .

us air force officer , adam , and his wife , shaelyn , seek tiny heirloom ' s help in building their dream tiny home , with easy mobility to get up and go for their next relocation . tyson is tasked with building a 50 sq ft bathroom and a large kitchen , complete with a kegerator . michelle brings the couple ' s tastes to life with a craftsman - inspired design .

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lena dunham’s hyphenate debut tiny furniture is somewhat of a tiny miracle , a film that by any metric should in no way succeed at all , but does so anyway , with so much intelligence , humor and charm that it made me wonder if dunham had somehow tricked us into thinking this was her first feature ( which maybe she kind of did – more on that below ) , and that we were watching the work of a seasoned pro . it’s the raw diamond in the rough that comes along every so often to rekindle my hope for the future of young independent film in america .

today , designer yves behar of fuseproject and the mit media lab unveiled ori , a new line of furniture solutions billed as the first " intelligent , responsive systems combining robotics , architecture , and design . " what does that mean exactly ? well , remember all the magical transforming tiny apartments we’ve seen , with movable walls and multifunctional components ? ori—short for origami—basically takes those concepts and automates them .

the rebuttal to this rant is that there’s usually something productive about mining for talent on the festival circuit , and “tiny furniture” quietly emerged from this makeshift vetting process . the flurry of coverage dunham has received in recent weeks implies that her new movie found instant success , when in fact she first set down her training wheels a year earlier with the sxsw non - competition selection “creative nonfiction . ”

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the company ' s namesake ori system is named for the japanese word " origami , " the art of folding paper , and literally does just that . the technology uses modular furniture and software that makes your furniture reconfigurable , transforming small spaces from living rooms into bedrooms and even workspaces with the push of a button . the system is designed for spaces between 300 and 500 square feet .

“tiny furniture” is about aura ( dunham ) , a young woman with a college degree but few prospects . she moves back in with her mother and sister shortly after graduation . she ends up working in a low - paying job and meeting low - life men who take advantage of her . aura reconnects with a high school friend who raises her spirits while convincing her to lower her expectations about life .

tiny furniture belongs somewhere in that general still - unnamed category , but its bright primary colors and flat , formal compositions , pleasingly shot by jody lee lipes , also owe something to wes anderson . dunham takes bujalski ' s trick of ending on an unexpected beat—a moment that somehow doesn ' t feel " important " enough to be a movie ending—and pushes it to the extreme , with the film seeming to cut off abruptly after a random line of dialogue . i rewatched the ending of tiny furniture a couple of times , trying to decide a ) whether i knew what the ending was trying to do and b ) whether i liked it . i ' m still not sure i know the answer to either of those questions , but it ' s noteworthy when a movie comes along that even makes them worth asking .

watching tiny furniture , dunham’s earlier feature film , implies that these kind of sexual encounters are something dunham or those close to her have endured , and yet that often passes without comment . hannah’s lax attitude to sexual health in girls may also be unfortunately reflective of too many girls’ ignorant approach to stds , but again i don’t see why showing this on the small screen is progressive or helpful in any way .

daley comments , “jody shot at 24fps and used many standard settings except that he activated highlight protection to help control clipping . the 7d was young at the time tiny furniture was shot so many of the camera’s optional settings had yet to be tested in the field . jody used many default settings and the results were very good . the iso settings were 200 iso for exterior and interior days and 400 iso for interior nights . ” lipes adds that “night exteriors ranged from 600 to 2000 iso but mostly were at 1000 . ” continues daley , “i definitely recommend shooting with prime lenses ( as was the case with tiny furniture ) ; the sharpness and depth of field are the closest to 35mm film than i’ve seen on any hd format . but beware of moiré , not just in clothing but in hair as well . ”

if there ever was a hipster queen , it would be lena dunham , which has been made apparent thanks to her hbo series girls . but one look at dunham’s 2009 debut film , tiny furniture , puts hannah and company practically in the same yuppie category as the cast of gossip girl . warning : the plot description that follows may result in severe eye strain , because you’ll likely be rolling them a lot .

disc two is comprised of dunham’s extant film work before tiny furniture . these include four short films which she did indeed post on youtube ( long since taken down ) , and her ( technically ) first feature , a 60 minute student film titled creative nonfiction . the short films almost do seem more like provocations / performance art , though they do evince the oddball humor and wry juxtapositions that dunham would deploy later .

tiny heirloom is tasked with building their smallest and ultra - lightweight tiny home to date , but that doesn ' t stop them from packing the home with as many luxuries as possible . chicago artists barnaby and margaret look to move in together in the 100 - square - foot home and travel around the west coast . the build team maximizes space while the design team brings the couple ' s rustic and modern vision to life .

married california couple shawn and shelly have always dreamed of owning a vacation home in maui , but instead of spending a fortune on beachfront property , they turn to tiny heirloom to build their ideal tiny home . tyson and michelle bring the traditional yet rustic touches of the home to life while maximizing space for friends and family , including a chef ' s full - sized kitchen , two bedrooms and a full - size outdoor deck .

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tiny furniture ( ifc films ) , the second film made by its 24 - year - old director , writer , and star lena dunham , couldn ' t be more aptly titled . dunham plays with the accoutrements of her own life like a child with the contents of a dollhouse . the dolls are members of her own family : dunham ' s mother , the artist laurie simmons , plays the artist mother of dunham ' s character , aura ; her real - life younger sister , grace dunham , plays aura ' s sister nadine . their dollhouse is a pristine , snow - white tribeca loft where dunham ' s parents actually do live . and the " tiny furniture " dunham - the - director moves around consists of elements from her life , cunningly rearranged to tell a story about someone who may or may not be the director herself .

the toughest thing about “tiny furniture” was the camera we were using ( the canon 7d ) , it’s not very forgiving and it’s painful to operate . my longtime friend and ac quit the first day cause it was so difficult to work with . in the end , the movie got a lot of attention because we were one of the first couple features to work with that technology , but it’s not something i’m planning on doing again .

in medford , oregon , karin dreams of building a portable tiny home identical to her current house for her and her granddaughter , halé , to travel the country in and visit friends and family . tyson and the guys get to work building a tiny home replica that includes a full - size baker ' s kitchen and a custom - built wine rack , while michelle and her design team bring karin ' s cozy beach cottage to life with coastal vibe materials .

despite what you may think about the uppity characters depicted on girls , the suave styling of her childhood home , or the banality of her plotlines , there’s no denying that lena dunham is different . after tiny furniture gained accolades and girls launched on hbo , the general tendency was to try and examine these works as encapsulations of “our generation” . were the experiences depicted accurate ? where they socially informed ? did they help our image or hurt it ?

one of the reasons why i waited so long before publishing this article is that i wanted to go into a long analysis of how tiny furniture was shot , dissecting each scenes , their timing etc . but then ( life happened and ) i remembered that i am not a scholar and i should probably let someone who has a ph . d in films study and gets paid to write books about it do it better than i will ever can .

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never overrun by the self - conscious quirk or straining obnoxious affectation of some of her peers ' work , lena dunham’s film is a modest , honest confessional that finds joy and poignancy in the tiny , awkward , stupid moments in life .

why do i feel such affection for " tiny furniture " ? it’s a well - crafted film , for one thing . for a first picture , it shows a command of style and purpose ; dunham knows what she wants and how she needs to get it , and succeeds . her character aura is not charismatic or glowing or mercurial or seductive or any of those advertising adjectives , but she believes she deserves to be happy , and we do , too .

everybody knows lena dunham from her hit show ‘girls’ on hbo and / or her multi - million dollars deal to write her future first book , but dunham’s career really started with tiny furniture , her second feature film shot for less than $ 50 , 000 on a 7d in 2010 , and that became one of the first indie feature shot with a dslr to gather real buzz , prizes , and massive end result . ( deal with hbo , anyone ? )

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in 2010 , i wrote and recorded the score for lena dunham’s feature tiny furniture . this release is the entire score , plus many other pieces i wrote for the film that didn’t make the cut , including my cover of sinead o’connor’s “emperor’s new clothes , ” which was originally supposed to be the song over the end titles ( we couldn’t afford the rights ) , and “when you come home , ” my duet with rebecca schiffman that ended up being at the end instead .

a washington nature enthusiast dreams of a simpler life in the great outdoors and decides to downsize to a 240 - square - foot tiny home . tyson and the team work to maximize floor space while michelle brings the outdoors inside by adding natural accents .

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a couple in agoura hills , california , wants to expand their property with a tiny home for their two children . the team has their work cut out for them as they incorporate zen living into a multi - functional space that both siblings will love .

mark left school to found his own startup with a few friends : a web - hosting company called internet presence and publishing which they later changed to itribe . their seed money came from a co - founder ' s father , and the little bit of cash was used to pay for " a tiny office , crappy furniture , and an internet connection . " but with a child on the way , mark left the struggling startup to join a company where he could make some real money .

boston - based start - up ori is out to solve those problems with a system that combines robotics and apartment - friendly modular furniture to transform small spaces in seconds . think of it as a kind of retractable murphy bed on steroids .

lena dunham won the narrative feature prize at sxsw in 2010 for her film tiny furniture , which had a budget of $ 65 , 000 . accessibility was the name of the game for dunham . since she didn ' t have much to work with in terms of funds , she cast her real life mom and sister as her mom and sister in the film , shot on a canon 7d , and filmed in the apartment building she lived in with her parents in downtown manhattan . dunham says :

in march , the then 23 - year - old ' s second feature film , tiny furniture , won the best narrative feature prize at the south by southwest film festival . the new york times , in a piece about dunham , compared her writing to both the novels of john cheever and the comedy of seinfeld creator larry david . and in september , hbo ordered a half - hour comedy pilot from durham , about a group of girls in their 20s . judd apatow jumped onboard to produce .

" we are trying to show you that your home can almost become an app , " larrea said . " that is the idea — how to make spaces not only more functional but also intelligent . i call it furniture with superpowers . "

after a devastating wildfire in cobb mountain , california , scott and tamsen were forced away from their home of 25 years . with the help of tiny heirloom , the couple dreams of a sleek and modern tiny home they can make new memories in . tyson and the guys get to work building a book nook for tamsen and a guest loft space for their sons while remaining pet - friendly for their little dog . michelle and the girls bring the couple ' s tastes to life with ultra - modern and mountain - inspired design pieces .

mario , autumn and their four children give tiny heirloom a big challenge for their dream vacation tiny home . with just 220 - square - feet of living space , this family needs to have enough room to sleep all six , while still having a place for luxury items such as a decorative fireplace and large bathroom with two sinks . tyson and the guys maximize space with two sleeping lofts and a downstairs bedroom with bunk beds , while michelle and the design team bring mario and autumn ' s rustic and log cabin tastes to life .

“ tiny furniture ” boasts a first - rate supporting cast — karpovsky and kirke are standouts — and nimble hd lensing by jody lee lipes . ( the title , by the way , refers to props used by aura’s mom in her photo art . ) what it doesn’t have , to its credit , is a neat conclusion . in the end , the film appears to suggest that aura likely will feel free to keep searching for herself , repeating mistakes and making new ones , because she has all the time in the world .

only a few months ago , lena dunham was all but unknown . then her movie tiny furniture —a funny , edgy , startlingly assured feature that cost only $ 50 , 000—won the narrative feature jury award at the sxsw film festival in austin , texas . today , the 24 - year - old writer - director - actress is the indie it girl . she’s the subject of magazine profiles , has been hired to write a script by überproducer scott rudin , and is developing an hbo comedy series with judd apatow about young women in new york .

if this sounds insufferable , like the template of so many navel gazing indies made by the same cohort of overeducated 20 - somethings , well… yes and no . superficially , tiny furniture plays out like a distaff version of the loosely grouped “mumblecore” ( sorry , i hate it too , but no other term works ) movement spearhead by andrew bujalski ( whom dunham , in interviews , acknowledges as an obvious influence ) and mostly made up of male directors and male protagonists . but the gender switch isn’t what ( or just ) sets dunham’s film apart .

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although the movie came together in a matter of months , it looks anything but thrown together , partly because jody lee lipes , the director of photography , who has his own film here called “ny export : opus jazz , ” did not let the lack of financing show up on screen . and while ms . dunham’s film may reflect the quandaries of a 23 - year - old , there is nothing juvenile about its execution . “tiny furniture” brings to mind larry david’s ability to take his own tics and add humor and stakes to make them matter to others .

indiewire collected insight from panels attended by vhx co - founder jamie wilkinson , the " before " trilogy producer john sloss , micro - budget pioneer / producer jason blum , house of cards producer dana brunetti , tiny furniture and girls director lena dunham , and fandor ceo ted hope , all of whom are changing the way we create , share , and view cinema . so , if you ' re a filmmaker looking for a few words of wisdom - - a new way to look at the craft - - then check out a selection of their helpful tips below .

how autobiographical is tiny furniture ? well , dunham did return home after graduating from oberlin college , where she majored in creative writing and created popular webisodes ( delusional downtown divas ) . she was working odd jobs as a clothing store clerk , secretary and babysitter until six months ago , and still lives with her parents . “i was not equipped for any other sort of job , ” she says . the male characters are composites who have “real aspects , like many men i’ve known . i blend reality and fiction in everything i write . this is a little less blurred . ”

ori is a new line of furniture that its founder , hasier larrea , describes as robotic , intelligent , and dynamic . that ' s not how you usually talk about tables and shelves . but then again , most tables and shelves don ' t come from the mit media lab .

though it ' s paced like a comedy ( sometimes too much so , when dunham ends a scene on a punch line , ba - dum - bum ) , tiny furniture has a way of suddenly delivering moments of unexpected emotional power . one whole scene consists of a long static shot of aura sobbing and berating her mother— " did you ever have a job that wasn ' t taking pictures of stupid tiny crap ? " —while her teenage sister snickers . the character of the mother , though , remains unsatisfyingly opaque . she does seem a chilly sort , but nothing she says or does to her daughter is objectively that unreasonable . siri ' s apparent shortcomings as a mother may spring from laurie simmons ' shortcomings as an actor ; her line readings sound stiff and unintuitive . ( or is her own director / daughter telling her to speak that way ? the meta - self - referential plot thickens . )

winner of the narrative feature prize at the sxsw film festival , “ tiny furniture ” should strike a responsive chord in anyone who remembers — or is experiencing — that post - college period in life when you’re impatiently eager to invent yourself , yet hesitant to get started . written and directed by newcomer lena dunham , who also plays the lead role , this technically polished indie often feels like a semi - autographical effort by a filmmaker trying to work out issues in her art that she’s still confronting in life . but that , too , may help the pic connect with auds during limited theatrical exposure .

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pitched unsteadily if shrewdly between honest self - reflection and squirmy narcissistic indulgence , the low - budget indie “tiny furniture” is one of the bigger itsy - bitsy movies to hit this year . it was written and directed by the newcomer lena dunham , who also plays the leading role of aura , a recent college graduate who returns to her family’s tribeca loft and promptly tries to crawl back in the womb . what makes this womb without apparent view especially notable is that ms . dunham’s own mother , the artist laurie simmons , plays aura’s mother , while her real sister , grace , plays aura’s on - screen sibling .


the long and the short and the tall ( released as jungle fighters in the usa and canada ) is a 1961 british war film directed by leslie norman , which stars richard todd , richard harris , laurence harvey , david mccallum and ronald fraser .

the film , which is based on a 1959 play with the same name , by willis hall , takes place in a burmese jungle in 1942 during the malayan campaign .

the title comes from the second line of the first world war song " bless 'em all " , which became very popular during the second world war .

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the long and the short and the tall ( film ) <EOT> 2012 the long and the short and the tall ‘the long and the short and the tall’ by willis hall was presented at bovey . . .

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‘the long and the short and the tall’ by willis hall was presented at bovey tracey town hall from the 24th to the 27th october 2012 . the play was directed by david wilson .

he death of willis hall a year ago this month has prompted something of a reappraisal . liverpool playhouse delivered an enjoyable revival of billy liar , which hall wrote in tandem with his long - standing collaborator , keith waterhouse . the long and the short and the tall is one he wrote on his own , before he later turned to writing scripts for the television series worzel gummidge .

the title is derived from the lyrics of a popular wartime ballad bless ' em all . this is , indeed , a war picture , set in malaya . the british troops encamped therein believe they ' ve gotten a break when they capture a japanese scout ( kenji takaki ) - - but it ' s all part of an enemy trap . the rest of the film concentrates on a battle of wills rather than bullets , though a few spurts of action keep the war - film aficionados happy . played against the larger tapestry of the world conflict are the fluctuating tensions among the british soldiers themselves . adapted from a play by willis hall , the long and the short and the tall was released as both the long the short and the tall ( big whoop ) and jungle fighters in the united states . ~ hal erickson , rovi

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to my knowledge , the long and the short and the tall has only been released on dvd in the uk so far . that disc presents the film full frame , which is clearly not how a movie coming out in 1961 would have been shot . imdb suggest 1 . 85 : 1 as the correct ratio and that sounds correct to me . aside from that , the film looks pretty good with nice contrast and little or no distracting damage visible . sadly , there are no extra features whatsoever offered . i suppose some might complain about the studio - bound setting but i can’t say i found it problematic , the story is of the intimate , powder - keg variety so it works well enough . personally , i find war films a fine vehicle for raising ethical conundrums and a means of focusing attention on our view of fellow men . in terms of setting and moral complexity the long and the short and the tall shares some features with hammer’s yesterday’s enemy , and both movies would make for an interesting double feature .

" meanwhile , south african actors are good enough for the other roles . we see this happen over and over . tomorrow there will be a film about walter sisulu , and then what ? no one is short enough ?

the religion of high - school football commingles with plain old - fashioned religion in “when the game stands tall , ” an inspirational sports drama ( from sony’s inhouse , faith - based label affirm films ) that goes long on rectitudinous sermonizing but comes up short on gridiron thrills or genuine love for the game . save for a couple of fine performances relegated to [ … ]

drawing upon his wartime experiences in malaya , hall ' s play brings together an englishman , an irishman , a welshman and a scotsman . it sounds like the ingredients for a terrible joke , and there is a fair sprinkling of unreconstructed racial attitudes throughout the play . the particularly prejudicial tone taken towards the japanese enemy makes it doubtful whether the long the short and the tall stands up to modern scrutiny , yet josie rourke ' s production has an unflinching honesty which gives the play a disturbingly familiar gloss .

the film of long walk to freedom has been in the pipeline for years and elba ' s casting is yet to be confirmed by its producers . lee said almost all the other roles , including mandela aged seven and 16 , would be played by south african actors .

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mandela , a towering figure in every sense , is 6ft 4ins ( 1 . 93 metres ) tall : actors in south africa just don ' t measure up , says moonyeenn lee , who picked british - born elba – star of the wire and luther – for a planned film adaptation of mandela ' s autobiography , long walk to freedom .

. as any film noir buff will tell you , poor set design can often be concealed by imaginative lighting and camerawork , but alas these are also lacking from this film , so that visually it resembles a mediocre tv drama from the 1950s . it is hard to suspend your disbelief when so little effort has apparently been made to disguise the fact that the film was recorded in a studio . not surprisingly , the film ' s most intense and credible scenes are those that take place within the cramped bamboo hut , the one and only realistic set offered by the film .

was originally performed at the edinburgh festival fringe in 1955 , where film producer michael balcon saw it and resolved to acquire the film rights . it was only after the play had triumphed on the london stage that hall agreed to a film adaptation . wolf mankowitz was hired to redraft hall ' s play and the task of directing it was given to leslie norman ( father of the well - known uk film critic barry norman ) , who later directed some of the most popular tv series of the ' 60s and ' 70s -

the play tells the story of a small british patrol in the malayan jungle in the second world war just before the japanese invaded the peninsula and eventually singapore . on a routine patrol they take refuge for a short break in an abandoned miners hut .

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sello maake ka - ncube , a south african actor who won a regional theatre award for his portrayal of mandela in the drama rivonia trial – and is 1 . 8m tall – said : " beauty is in the eye of the beholder . i don ' t think we are too short for anything . but i respect the director ' s vision . "

but the short , stocky actor will be best remembered for his portrayal of wing commander guy gibson in the acclaimed war film , the dam busters . todd was himself a war hero , one of the first british officers to parachute into normandy during the d - day landings in 1944 , and he re - lived some of that experience when he played major john howard in the film the longest day ( 1962 ) . his private life was marked by the tragic suicides of two of his sons .

todd enjoyed his role in never let go ( 1960 ) starring peter sellers ( " i loved doing it because it was a character part for me , playing a scruffy little salesman whose car has been stolen " ) , but he " loathed " making the screen version of the play the long , the short and the tall ( 1961 ) . " i didn ' t enjoy working with laurence harvey . . . i took it for granted that they would cast peter o ' toole , who was marvellous on stage , but they said they wanted a ' name ' . "

this film , made in the traditional british style for the period displays a rare realism of a conflict where the main characters are " other ranks " . many british war films of this type invariably starred well known actors playing the stiff upper lip officer with character actors playing " other rank " in subordinate roles . the latter being patronised as salt of the earth types . the film being reviewed seems to me to be a forerunner of the more realistic school of film - making in later decades .

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for political and budgetary reasons , filming on location in the jungles of asia was infeasible and so the entire film had to be shot in a studio mock - up . whilst it can be argued that this is what gives the film its stifling aura of oppression , the fact that the studio sets are more redolent of kew gardens than the burmese jungle does diminish its realism somewhat . likewise , the impact of the sequences in the partially flooded mine is greatly undermined by the fact that the cast appear to have taken a wrong turning and wandered onto the set of

a separate film project , winnie , provoked controversy by casting hollywood stars terrence howard and jennifer hudson as nelson and winnie mandela . the casting of morgan freeman in invictus was also criticised .

during a short reprieve from her busy schedule , hannigan took some time to chat with the huffington post about some behind - the - scenes stories from " himym . " prepare yourself : they might change the whole way you look at the show .

this is already a sore point for local performers , and now salt has been rubbed in the wound . why do they never get the chance to play their national hero ? because they are too short , according to the country ' s top casting agent .

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the play transferred to london ' s west end , where it became a huge success . the then little - known peter o ' toole played bamforth . balcon recounts in his autobiography how he eventually secured the film rights , in conjunction with abpc . experienced screenwriter wolf mankowitz adapted the play , retaining some of hall ' s own draft screenplay , and the film was directed by leslie norman .

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thanks for getting back after viewing the movie , jeff . harvey often came across as cold , and it works well in certain films , but there’s none of that on show here . i found his work in the early part of the film very broad and affected , and harris was straying close to that too . the second half picks up a lot though and the performances settle and improve as the drama intensifies .

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the religion of high - school football commingles with plain old - fashioned religion in “when the game stands tall , ” an inspirational sports drama ( from sony’s inhouse , faith - based label affirm films ) that goes long on rectitudinous sermonizing but comes up short on gridiron thrills or genuine love for the game . save for a couple of fine performances relegated to the sidelines , no one really brings their “a” game to this lazily executed late - summer programmer — a “friday night lights” for the sunday - school crowd graced by little of the storytelling craft and skillful emotional manipulation that have distinguished the recent wave of superior disney sports pics . after an opening weekend that may see a bump from church - group sales , expect “game” to do most of its rushing and passing on home screens .

a simple but effective set showed the action well and the different personalities of the different members of the patrol were well portrayed by the cast with some very realistic accents . black humour made the audience laugh at times and the drama of the situation kept them involved throughout the performance . a good addition to the canon of the players work .

" i was free to cast a south african , and i auditioned some extraordinary local actors , " lee told the sunday newspaper city press . " but the main problem is the height . mandela is a particularly tall man . on average , south african actors are not 1 . 9 metres . "

willis hall was a comparatively unknown playwright when his play was produced at the edinburgh festival fringe in 1955 , where it was seen by michael balcon . balcon , now working at the elstree studios of the associated british picture corporation , following the sale of ealing studios , made hall an offer for the film rights . theatre producer oscar lewenstein , however , offered hall a london production provided that the film rights were unsold .

colin one of the best jungle warfare films i’ve seen in the last while is the 2006 australian production , kokoda . it is about the brutal fight for the kokoda trail in new guinea in 1942 . this is one mean and nasty war film , and well worth a look in my opinion . review up of course . gordon

a good old fashioned british made war film . . . ideal for a lads night in . . . well made and a good story line . . good value

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one of the better transfers of a stage play to film in my humble opinion . nice write up . watched this for about the 5th time just a few months ago . what a great cast and fine work by them as well as the crew .

yeah , plays don’t always work as pieces of cinema and the stage origins can be quite distracting at times . this film , however , skips round that particular artistic pitfall early on and then settles down to providing good , absorbing drama .

the british army in the far east was a popular film subject , especially in the 1950s , and was also treated memorably in peter nichols ' privates on parade ( d . michael blakemore , 1982 ) . class tensions and personality clashes among servicemen were also the subject of john mcgrath ' s the bofors gun ( d . jack gold , 1968 ) .

the country also lacked experienced actors , as a consequence of apartheid , lee added . " the younger actors have had a chance to go and study and learn and work with internationals . the older actors , growing up during apartheid , had to deal with the cultural boycott , [ with ] very few roles on television and almost none in film . there simply aren ' t enough actors to choose from . "

nice review , colin , of a film i too have never seen . not sure why . i always liked richard todd but not so keen on richard harris ( in his younger days ) or laurence harvey – maybe that has something to do with it . that said , i really enjoyed harvey in the 1954 film “the good die young” which also starred stanley baker , john ireland and a great cast .

a film based on the successful play by willis hall about a british patrol in burma who are determined to kill an innocent japanese prisoner in a mad revenge for atrocities against british prisoners .

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actor josh radnor was told about the major " himym " finale twist during season 1 of the show and hannigan actually found out early as well . they had to film a lot of reactions for ted mosby ' s kids early in the series that would then air in later seasons , the actress said , and after that some " whisperings " started getting out that the series would end with the mom ' s death .

the theme song of the film , from which the title was taken , is a british army song from 1916 , known as " bless ' em all " . this title however , is from the sanitized commercial version first recorded in 1940 by george formby . the lyrics were originally " fuck ' em all " , the version still sung in the british army to this day .

worst of all was the casting of bamforth , the central role . balcon had wanted either o ' toole , or another up - and - coming young actor called albert finney . this was unacceptable to the americans , who had put up some of the money and wanted a ' name ' that would play in the american market . laurence harvey was cast - a most unlikely cockney . he gives a ' star ' performance , all " professional mimicry and forceful personality selling " , as the monthly film bulletin review put it . only kenji takaki , playing the japanese scout tojo , survived from the london stage production . alongside experienced british film actor richard todd , however , the cast boasted some names that would soon become household - richard harris and david mccallum .

in 1953 he told the bbc of his ambition to play heathcliff in wuthering heights , and a television version was quickly arranged , with nigel kneale given one week to write the script . todd returned to hollywood to star as the reverend peter marshall , the scotsman who became chaplain for the us senate , in the screen biography , a man called peter ( 1955 ) . todd was superb as the charismatic preacher , delivering his sermons with flair and fervour , dealing with tuberculosis and maintaining a warmly loving relationship with his wife ( jean peters ) . the film was a big hit in the us , and todd then co - starred with bette davis in the virgin queen ( 1955 ) , as sir walter raleigh , with joan collins as raleigh ' s sweetheart . the film was initially titled sir walter raleigh , and planned as a starring vehicle for todd and collins , but when davis was cast the emphasis shifted to her character and the title changed ( though her role took only 12 days to shoot ) .

another aussie ww2 film worth a look is the last bullet from 1995 . it is about a small unit action in the last days of the war . it is set in borneo during the mopping up operations in 1945 . again , write - up at the usual place . i love war films set in unfamiliar places .

i bought this film to see one of my mother ' s favorite actors , laurence harvey . the talent was certainly there , so i will try to find other films for which he is better known . i also learned the words to the song , from which the title was derived !

the play illustrates the dilemmas faced by the soldiers and their ncos and the tensions that arise between a mixed bag of reluctant heroes who don’t really want to be there . the situation becomes more complicated when they capture a lone japanese soldier , and the decision has to be made as to what to do with him .

even balcon had to admit that the result was disappointing . the political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real south - east asian locations , and the studio jungle looks unconvincing . by alternating interior shots with exterior ' action ' , the claustrophobia and much of the suspense of the play is lost .

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political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in malaya , after the close of the second world war .

her explanations have gone down badly with the body representing actors , the creative workers union of south africa . its president , mabutho " kid " sithole , told the city press : " we are not impressed . so , no one is tall enough : there ' s always some reason to avoid using south african actors , and having other people tell our stories . they use these stars for commercial reasons and the problem is , south african business is not funding our own films .

now the positions are reversed ; the japanese soldiers find tojo ' s water bottle on whitaker , and the cycle of suspicion starts all over again .

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offers both a probing examination of the morality of war and a compelling study of the psychology of warfare . the film shows how a poorly led group of british soldiers loses its cohesion and sense of purpose as a result of the moral conflict that arises when a japanese man is taken prisoner . whereas some members of the group see a dangerous enemy ( because he is wearing a different uniform ) , others see only another human being , reminding us that the objectives of war and the interests of humanity are mutually incompatible . the anti - war message may be far from subtle but it is remarkably effective and prompts the audience to reflect on whether there can ever be a moral basis to any war . as they ruminate on the fate of their prisoner , the british soliders ' moral undulations resemble a pendulum swinging between civilised behaviour and barbarity , and the outcome is all too predictable .

the tragic story of seven british soldiers who , trapped behind japanese lines , are so concerned with arguing out their own destinies that the enemy has to take second place . when they capture a lone japanese scout and argue over his fate as well , the film shows with a terrible truth that in war there can be no second chances .

i remember reading the play in second year of secondary school . i was impressed by the portrayal of soldiers as human beings not as heroes , as was common in war films of the time . a difficult subject dealt with brilliantly by great actors . a film which is a powerful antidote to the hollywood - style of jingoistic bombast .

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i have lots of respect for those who research the aspect ratios and fight to have the right choices presented . as a viewer though , my head starts to spin with the onslaught of technical minutiae that often accompanies such discussions , and i fear there’s always the danger of missing the wood for looking at the trees .

( 1967 ) . the other players - david mccallum , ronald fraser , john meillon , john rees and kenji takaki - are no less deserving of praise and give the film much of its humanity and psychological realism . the end result may be more theatrical than cinematic , but it is nonetheless a powerful anti - war piece , one that compels its spectator to confront some problematic moral issues , to which of course there are no easy solutions .

" early on , i wanted victoria to be the mom , " hannigan said . " i guess carter later said had we got canceled she would’ve been the mom . but , you know , somebody great would come on [ the show ] and we would be like , ' yeah , we want her to be the mom , ' so it was sort of just like whoever was on for a long period of time . we’re like , ' let her be the mom . let her . ' we just loved everybody . "

a shot at redemption hovers in the form of a ballyhooed game against a long beach team with a 330 - pound offensive tackle . but as this sluggish film winds its way toward that inevitable showdown , it generates little in the way of rooting interest . in adapting neil hayes’ nonfiction book , screenwriter scott marshall smith ( “men of honor” ) and david zelon ( who receives a story credit with smith ) have painted nearly every character into a blandly stereotypical corner , whether it’s the golden - boy running back ( alexander ludwig ) with a hard - driving booster dad ( a snarling , mustache - twirling clancy brown ) ; ladouceur’s own wide - receiver son ( matthew daddario ) , on hand mainly to grouse things like , “when i needed a dad , i got a coach , and now when i need a coach , you want to be a dad” ; and ladouceur himself , the kind of secular saint who tosses lucrative college coaching offers into the trash bin as if they were yesterday’s fish wrap . ( doing by far the best work in the film , michael chiklis and laura dern manage to suggest glimmers of inner lives as , respectively , ladouceur’s longtime assistant coach and acquiescent wife . )

like most entries in this particular genre , “when the game stands tall” traffics in the usual tropes of scrappy heroes and come - from - behind victories — except that , in this case , the underdogs are more like alpha dogs , and they don’t go from last to first so much as from first to second and back again . but then , there’s more to life than just winning — a mantra the movie announces with such frequency and fervor that if you don’t leave the theater with it ringing in your head , you should head straight for the nearest ear doctor . when our story begins in the fall of 2003 , the de la salle high school spartans of tree - lined concord , calif . , are coming to the end of yet another undefeated season that has left them with the longest unbroken winning streak — 151 games — in american sports history . but dark clouds loom on the horizon : a large chunk of the team’s starting lineup is due to graduate in the spring , and the underclassmen waiting to take their places seem to lack a certain team spirit .

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on the last day of shooting at elstree studios , todd was spotted by director vincent sherman , who was preparing a film version of john patrick ' s play the hasty heart and felt that todd would be ideal casting as the dour , truculent soldier lachlan mclachlan , who initially rejects the attempts at friendship made by fellow patients in a military hospital in burma ( the scottish actor gordon jackson had already been tested for the part . ) though his co - stars , ronald reagan and patricia neal , gave fine performances , todd was outstanding as the dying scot , later commenting , " i had seen boys in the war in much the same state and i knew what he was feeling , " and he won an academy award nomination as best actor ( losing to broderick crawford in all the king ' s men ) .

the noise immediately gives away their position . cornered , the patrol fights bravely but hopelessly . when the smoke clears , only johnstone and whitaker are left alive . they surrender .

this was a strong performance well up to the players usual standard , and the director had assembled a very capable cast who illustrated clearly the mundane side of soldiering as well as the very real horrors of jungle warfare .

a group of british servicemen , fighting the japanese in the jungles of south - east asia during world war ii , confront the enemy within when class tensions and personal rivalries erupt .

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pan and scan really is an abomination and i sometimes wonder how i managed to watch movies which were often butchered on tv broadcasts in the past .

carter , a proficient journeyman director who did a modestly more energetic job with 2005’s high - school basketball drama “coach carter , ” never seems to get inside the world of the movie . his football scenes lack any visceral , bone - crunching impact , and when he ventures off the field , the movie fails to foster the sense of family and community that drive the best sports dramas . carter’s leafy nocal suburbs and their adjacent war - torn ghettos have all the neighborhood feel of the warner bros . backlot .

five stents later , ladouceur is good as new , but somehow the spartans’ mojo isn’t quite working . some of the cocky new players don’t seem to understand that there’s no “i” in “team , ” and everyone is shattered when beloved linebacker terrance t . k . kelly ( stephan james ) is killed in a random act of urban violence ( foreshadowed by risibly cliche images of malt - liquor - swilling revelers bumping and grinding to montell jordan ) . still , “when the game stands tall” has already been on the screen for nearly an hour by the time the spartans finally lose , during an away game against a national - championship seattle team — the proverbial inciting incident that most screenplay manuals tell you to include no later than page 15 .

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this plays quite regularly on tv here in the u . k . but i’ve always avoided it for the very silly reason that we had to study the play when i was in school . i have a built - in aversion to spending leisiure time with things i was compelled to write essays about when i was 15 ! it’s time to put this foolishness to one side and to watch it . i’m sure that my school essays about it were incredibly insightful and intellectually rigorous ( ! ! ? ) 🙂 but the plain fact is that i’ve long forgotten the details . i will pick up the dvd asap . regardless of everything else , i always enjoy richard todd’s performances . i’m convinced that he had the straightest back in british cinema . i challenge anyone to find a todd role where there’s even the slightest indication of a slouch in his posture ! thanks for the review colin .

macleish and smith are sent out to reconnoiter , and discover a japanese scouting party nearby , in search of their missing comrade . macleish and smith manage to kill one of them , and escape . back at the hut , bamforth is set to guard the prisoner , who he nicknames tojo . despite the language barrier , bamforth discovers that tojo has a wife and family , and sees his photographs of them . johnstone breaks up their ' conversation ' , still thirsting for the prisoner ' s blood . there is another radio message from the enemy , this time in english , letting the patrol know that they are coming ! mitchem decides it is useless to keep the prisoner alive , and resolves that he must be killed .

bamforth delights in taunting the other men , drawing out their weaknesses and making them doubt the fidelity of their womenfolk back home . he hates the army and is always putting on funny voices , singing songs and generally ' performing ' to his captive audience . even the composition of the patrol is like a music hall joke - there is an englishman , an irishman , a welshman , a scotsman . . .

i’ve been meaning to catch up with this one for ages . really enjoyed the review ( and thanks , as ever , for the general avoidance of spoilers ) and am now ordering this one as i speak …

during the japanese invasion of 1942 , a seven - strong british patrol beds down in a dilapidated store - hut in the burmese jungle . hindered by a malfunctioning radio , the men do not know whether or not to move on and the situation takes a turn for the worse when a lone japanese scout stumbles across the hut - leaving the soldiers with a moral dilemma . second world war drama , starring laurence harvey , richard todd , richard harris and david mccallum .

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todd then returned to the uk to star in his most famous role , that of guy gibson in the dam busters ( 1955 ) , which he considered " the best military war picture ever made " . gibson trained the crews of the aeroplanes with the responsibility of precisely releasing the " bouncing baby bombs " that would destroy the hitherto unassailable ruhr dams that supplied the power needed to run the large german factories . though todd never met gibson , he spent time with the inventor barnes wallis . " they got the technical details about the bomb itself from him , although some of that had to be cheated a bit because it was still secret . "

one of my favorite films . not so much anti - war but anti the cheapening and dehumanizing of " enemies " , very stagey and little action . the characters are clearly delineated and well acted , particularly laurence harvey as both the pro and antagonist . the dialogue and ensemble work is excellent . unfortunately the print is fullscreen , not it ' s original 1 : 66 - 1 aspect ratio . this omission doesn ' t make a huge difference . print quality is slightly above average . recommended if you like films that propose questions with no easy answers and deal with issues that i ' m sure to this day every soldier on the front lines has to deal with .

even a better director , though , might have been at a loss to solve a problem like caviezel . when the real ladouceur appears in documentary footage under the movie’s end credits , he seems a stern but folksy , avuncular figure , a bit like a more athletic garrison keillor . but caviezel turns him into a dour ascetic who scarcely cracks a smile and suffers profoundly for each of his players who fails to grasp the true meaning of “those who exalt themselves will be humbled , and those who humble themselves will be exalted . ” it’s a comically self - serious turn , but at least it’s interesting in a way that little else in “when the game stands tall” manages to be . it is sometimes said that a great actor can take dross and make it sound like shakespeare . here , caviezel takes “hoosiers” and plays it as though he were still nailed to the cross .

this movie is an incredibly hilarious movie , no matter how many times you watch it . it ' s true that it ' s profane , violent , and stupid , but in this film , that ' s what makes it so funny ! the timing is just perfect . it ' s a great movie to watch with friends for the first time , especially for the fact that you will be quoting lines with them randomly for quite a while . i have seen it over 30 times , and i still laugh . this is adam sandler at his very best . great random characters , such as the " jackass " man , the homeless guy , and very best , bob barker ! to tell you the truth , " it ' ll make you laugh until you hyperventilate " . there ' s not only great vocal humor , but the visuals and especially the body language coming from the actors is classic . to me , there is not a better comedy .

bamforth is now the only member of the group who opposes tojo ' s death . the prisoner has inadvertently revealed an unexpected streak of compassion in him . but while bamforth is striving desperately to avoid a cold - blooded killing , the enemy patrol is getting closer . at a crucial moment , the radio crackles into life with enemy voices . the prisoner , springing to his feet , begins to gesticulate and speak rapidly in japanese , and whitaker , in a panic , grabs a gun and shoots him .

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i like the foundation of the story , that these men come to the gradual realization that they are in a lot of trouble , and i thought the battle sequences were good , despite being shot in studio . overall , an ok watch , but not a great movie .

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in alfred hitchcock ' s stage fright ( 1950 ) todd played a villain on screen for the first time , as the former boy - friend of an acting student ( jane wyman ) who comes to her for help , describing in a vivid flashback his involvement with a musical star ( marlene dietrich ) who has killed her husband . hitchcock ' s use of a flashback that turns out to be a lie was heavily criticised , and despite a strong cast the film is not among the director ' s best , with todd a dour killer .

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" hitchcock was a strange man , " he recalled , " not a lot of help to his actors . " todd was also a not very sympathetic character in his first hollywood - made film , king vidor ' s mystery drama lightning strikes twice ( 1951 ) , as a man wrongly suspected of killing his wife , but he regained his popularity with three period romps for walt disney , the story of robin hood and his merrie men ( 1951 ) ; the sword and the rose ( 1953 ) , a fanciful account of the love of a commoner ( todd ) for mary tudor ( glynis johns ) , sister of henry viii ; and rob roy – the highland rogue ( 1953 ) , for which todd once more assumed a scottish brogue .

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a major star of the british cinema in the 1950s , richard todd won an oscar nomination for his portrayal of a taciturn dying scot in the hasty heart ( 1949 ) , played robin hood and sir walter raleigh on screen , and was ian fleming ' s first choice to play his creation , james bond .

i was initially intrigued by seeing laurence harvey’s name on it . although i generally consider him a fairly limited actor , he is front and center of two films that are on my indispensable list – manchurian candidate , and room at the top . i generally like his movies . this one was a real departure for him , as his usual coldness wasn’t evident , but i found him distracting early on . you hit the nail on the head exactly – it’s a “stagey” , over the top performance . likewise with harris – i felt that the tension between johnstone and bamforth was a construct . they hate each other because the plot dictates it , and for a great deal of the 1st half of the movie , neither seems like a real person .

i fully sympathize with the desire to see things as near to correct as possible but i can’t personally summon up the enthusiasm to argue over those small differences either . zoomed open matte does bug me , and panned and scanned scope is just a total disaster .

a troop of british soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts . as they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a japanese broadcast . they now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a japanese camp ! the tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted " non - hero " private bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially corporal johnstone ( who holds an equal dislike for bamforth ) . when a japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner , the true colors of each man comes to the surface . . .

in an asian jungle during world war ii , a seven - man british patrol led by sergeant mitchem captures tojo , a japanese scout . mitchem wants to take tojo to headquarters for questioning , but his men ( including corporal johnstone , second in command ) want to kill him . none of the men , however , is able to commit the deed . private bamforth , one of the instigators , is ordered to guard the prisoner , and soon tojo and he become friends . a rockslide blocks the patrol ' s only means of escape from japanese - held territory ; desperate , and enraged by evidence of tojo ' s looting , the men renew their determination to kill him , and private whitaker finally does . the gunfire brings nearby japanese troops upon them , and after a brief battle only johnstone and whitaker are left alive to be taken as prisoners . the japanese , finding tojo ' s water bottle on whitaker , begin to threaten him , and another situation of misunderstanding develops .

yes , the alamo was the other one i was going to add . he was also a terrific columbo villain as an overly - competitive chess champion . on the other hand , watching dandy is aspic was a wretched experience , just so dour and depressing

the drama centres on a british patrol , stranded behind enemy lines , who take a japanese soldier prisoner . the mute , frightened captive becomes variously a threat , a source of fascination , and the subject of bored amusement . when one of the company jocularly remarks " this one ' s almost human " one is reminded instantly of the humiliation of iraqi captives in abu ghraib .

on demobilisation , he returned to dundee rep before signing a seven - year contract with associated british films . he made his screen debut in cavalcanti ' s for them that trespass ( 1949 ) , giving a strong performance as an ex - convict wrongly imprisoned for murder . " my first film didn ' t light any fires , " he told the historian brian mcfarlane , " but cavalcanti taught me a great deal about techniques to overcome my faults and , really , the rudiments of screen acting . "

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the jungles of asia during wwii . sergeant mitchem is in charge of a seven - man patrol engaged on sonic warfare exercises to mislead the japanese . he is fighting to regain his self - respect , following the loss of a stripe for losing a former patrol , while trying to ward off the naked disrespect of his second in command corporal johnstone . he is also plagued by the dour monotonous war - by - the - rules preaching of lance corporal macleish , and above all , losing patience with the relentless tilting against authority of private bamforth , the ' barrackroom lawyer ' of the patrol . the other three men , privates whitaker , smith and evans , have no particular axe to grind ; they just want to return in one piece to their old lives back in civvy - street .