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WARTS AND ALL:
THE FILMS OF DANNY PLOTNICK |
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| Actors: Danny Plotnick |
| Director: Danny Plotnick |
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Studio: Microcinema DVD |
| DVD release: 26 February 2008 |
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Runtime: 100 minutes (1 disc) |
| Format: Color, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| DVD Features: Audio Tracks (English), Photo and poster gallery, Technical specs, Audio Yakety Yak, Dumkoff from Dusseldorf, Other titles, Contact |
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It's amazing what a guy with a punk attitude and a Super-8 camera can
do. The short films of Danny Plotnick are fun, irreverent, and foul.
Some are amusing but forgettable like Skate Witches; others stick with you and make you smile later in the day, like "Swingers' Serenade," which suggests that 1950's film magazines encouraged marital infidelities. Excellent on a number of levels, the least of which is murder mystery.
Plotnick's "Death Sled II: Steel Belted Romeos" takes a traffic misunderstanding and blows it up to epic proportions. It leaves me wondering what would have happened if the nice driver had hit the lead-footed Guido's car (a line that is repeated in about 50 interesting ways!).
"Pipsqueak Pfollies" illustrates the path of a milquetoast prone to being taken (yea, even beaten) by children. His path is shown with different choices after a series of interviews with children who have a beef with adults.
I can see that Plotnick's work has paved the way for other filmmakers like Tom Stern and Alex Winter. Great stuff and it leaves me wanting more.
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