Wholphin No. 9 features three, hilarious, never-before-seen short films by Spike Jonze; Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s short story, “Sparks,” starring Carla Gugino and Eric Stoltz; the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “La Corona,” about a high-stakes beauty pageant in a Columbian women’s prison; an incredibly rare and candid glimpse into the life of a Mormon fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger, biological sister; the Jury Prize-winning short from Cannes; Caveh Zahedi; meteorites; motordromes; acting lesson orgasms; films from Belgium, France, Germany, Australia and Japan, and much more. To watch a trailer of this issue, click here.
Wholphin No. 10 will include a heartbreaking, must-see Jonathan Demme documentary on a proud New Orleans couple coming to terms with their post-Katrina loss, Natalie Portman's touching directorial debut, a surreal homage to a 1960s Christian television show for kids starring Todd Haynes, an unbelievable documentary about a Pentecostal minister who gets word from God that he will become the "Rolls Royce" of filmmaking, award-winning animation, and much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS for Wholphin No. 9
Sparks
Short Film, U.S.A.
Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
24:00 minutes
La Corona
Documentary, U.S.A.
Produced & Directed by Amanda Micheli & Isabel Vega
40:00 minutes
Maurice at the World's Fair
Short Film, U.S.A.
A Film by Spike Jonze & Lance Bangs
3:30 minutes
The Creature Within & Melbourne Years
Short Film, U.S.A.
Directed by Spike Jonze
1:30 & 0:50 minutes
Acting for the Camera
Short Film, U.S.A.
Directed by Justin Nowell; Written by Thomas Nowell
15:00 minutes
Skhizein
Animated Short, France
Directed by Jérémy Clapin
13:00 minutes
Jerrycan
Short Film, Australia
Directed by Julius Avery
13:00 minutes
The Unmaking of I Am A Sex Addict
Animated Documentary, U.S.A.
Directed by Caveh Zahedi
7:00 minutes
Sister Wife
Documentary, U.S.A.
Directed by Jill Orschel
11:00 minutes
Mompelaar
Short Film, Belgium
Directed by Wim Reygaert & Marc Roels
22:00 minutes
Sunday, 6th April, 11:42AM
Short Film, Italy
Directed by Flatform
6:00 minutes
Bearings Glocken
Short Film, Japan
Directed by Kawase Kohske
5:00 minutes
Motodrom
Short Film, Germany
Directed by Jörg Wagner
9:00 minutes
Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine from McSweeney's, lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it.
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