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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The film is too short, too quick, and toned down I believe.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
But in honor of my Jettie… laid up in the service bay today… a short film, of the photo roman genre, we created about the trials of transportation… very fitting for a day like today: Moto Mirage from CopyCatFilms on Vimeo.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
We forgot to mention that the film was too short, and they missed out the mirror, which may screw up the next…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The movies they make in it are hilarious, but there’ s not quite enough of that, as the film is pretty short, and most of that goes to the overall story, which is fairly basic when it all comes down to it.
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In Wikipedia:
He began his cinema career in 2007 with the documentary “’ (The Secret Of Middle – Earth) the he made his first short film (The Wiles) in the ends of 2008.
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In Wikipedia:
He is best known for writing, directing and producing the 1998 short film “The List”, and the 2002 independent film “Home Room”.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
EPISODE 1: BEFORE THE SCREENING The filmmakers take their short film “I FUCKING HATE YOU’ ’ the Dances With Films Festival in Los Angeles.
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In Wikipedia:
Prior to this film, most films were short and all revolved around stimulating the visual sense a feature of the modern movement.
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In Wikipedia:
“’It’s the Same World”’ is a 1980 short documentary film produced by Dick Young.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
My only complaint was that the film was too short: It could have been 2 1 / 2 hours instead of its brief 96 minutes of running time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Though the film is short, the subject it tracks is somewhat unwieldy, and you can almost feel the hands of writer / director / producer Andrea Kreuzhage stretching to fit it all in – a Herculean task.
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In Wikipedia:
He and fellow “Everwood” cast member Chris Pratt produced and acted in a short film which they shot while shooting Everwood in Salt Lake City.
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In the British National Corpus:
“The film is pretty short, but makes everything count and, while proving extremely entertaining, never lets go of its main point, which is to illuminate, with some sympathy, the underbelly of Scandinavian and particularly Finnish life.”
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In Wikipedia:
“’Bunny”’ is a 1998 animated short film by Chris Wedge.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Alexander’s score for the Nick Butler directed short film,’ A Thing of The Past ’, was completed on Sunday, August 17, 2008, and is being delivered to the director to be added to the film on the follow…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He’s working on scripting a short film for his Production class.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In addition, and despite its fame in the swashbuckling genre, there’s only one major swordfight in the entire film, short, but perfect, when Blood (Flynn) confronts Levasseur (Basil Rathbone) on a rocky Caribbean shore.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
William has directed a short film which has its premiere at the Apple Store on Regent Street this Sunday.
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In Wikipedia:
The single was released in two pressings – a regular version with instrumental versions of all the songs and a limited edition containing the songs, the music video of the title track and a short film of the making of the the music video.
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