As seen at Sundance (and a few other film festivals), the Goldthwait Home Movies, featuring Bobcat Goldthwait’s Director’s Commentary for his family’s home movies.
Daniel Kraus revisits the mini-VHS films from his teen years on his blog Francis Ford Iowa. He explains:
Hi. My name is Dan. I’m a novelist and filmmaker. You’re going to wonder how that’s possible after spending some time on this blog. See, when I was growing up in Iowa, I made movies with my friends. Many of them were remakes of movies I liked, like Misery or The Godfather. Others were originals, with catchy titles like The Bastard Chicken Clock from Hell and Dirt 2. But all of them were awful. And now, to lead up to the publication of my new book, The Monster Variations, I’m blogging my old movies chronologically for your enjoyment. So come with me, won’t you? Let’s feel the pain together.
Source: Francis Ford Iowa via BoingBoing
Skip recently reminded us of the Monster Kid Home Movies. He especially recommends the audio commentary.
The Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound posts one of their favorite home movies, via the Knoxville Metropulse weekly. TAMIS founders Bradley Reeves and Louisa Trott found this 8mm home movie in a junk shop in Sevier County, Tennessee, and retitled it “Crotch Grabbin’ Town,” for obvious reasons.
Source: Metropulse
Jasmina Tešanović recently guest blogged about Ratko Mladić’s home movies for BoingBoing. You can read “Less Than Human” here.
Amateur cell phone video from the protests in Tehran, June 14.
Bosnian television aired Ratko Mladić’s seized home movies on Wednesday night. The videos show Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army being charged with war crimes, leading a normal life in the midst of more than a decade of hiding. The NY Times story, including links to the videos, is here.
Kathy Lundstrom grew up on home videos taken by her father, Henry Ekberg. “Once a year when we were kids, my father would get out the projector and we would watch all the fun we had as a family. The viewing also included my father’s footage of destruction from the Worcester Tornado,” said Kathy.
On the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Henry Ekberg left his job at the Norton Company early–a move that saved his life. Many others at the Norton Company perished in the events that soon unfolded that fateful day.
Source: WBZ-TV
A YouTube collection of home movies of the Beatles.
