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by iconogassed
Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:24 am
Forum: Collections
Topic: From short to feature
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From short to feature

https://www.criticker.com/?fl&filter=e41477

Short films later adapted to feature length by their original director or principal creative team, so no 12 Monkeys, Van Sant Elephant, etc. Like with "Director remade their own film" both films should be included if possible (though there are many, particularly of the shorts-to-get-funding variety, still to be added to Criticker).

More distinctions:

Machete, a realization of a fake trailer for Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse is included, but Machete Kills, the sequel to the feature adaptation, and any subsequent sequels, are not.

The original When a Stranger Calls is an adaptation of the director's short The Sitter, which essentially acts as the blueprint for the feature's opening set-piece, so it counts, but the 2009 remake does not.

Both Joe's Apartment (yes) and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (no) had their origins as shorts that first aired on MTV, but the latter is an adaptation of the TV series in between.

Kiarostami's Koker trilogy is an interesting case, as Life and Nothing More follows two characters as they search for two others from the original short Where is the Friend's Home?, while Through the Olive Trees focuses on the filming of a scene from Life and Nothing More. As Kiarostami himself considers the films only loosely connected, I'm not inclined to include.

Also interesting is the relatively high representation of female filmmakers: Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child), Jennifer Kent (Monster/The Babadook), Sarah Colangelo (Little Accidents), Debra Granik (Snake Feed/Down to the Bone), Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.), Jenny Deller (Save the Future/Future Weather), Anna Boden (Gowanus, Brooklyn/Half Nelson; with Ryan Fleck), Jerusha Hess (Peluca/Napoleon Dynamite; with Jared Hess), Géraldine Nakache (Tout ce qui brille; with Hervé Mimran), Brigette Sy (The Best Place/Free Hands), Suzi Yoonessi (Dear Lemon Lima)

Unsurprisingly, dominated by debut films, but Neill Blompkamp (Alive in Joburg/District 9; Tetra Vaal/Chappie) and Paul Thomas Anderson (The Dirk Diggler Story/Boogie Nights; Cigarettes and Coffee/Hard Eight) are repeat offenders.