Love Letters

Posted by Alex in Video Clips on December 11, 2007 at 5:03 pm


No words are spoken in this short film, titled Love Letters, directed by Mary Gillen of the Columbia MFA Film program. All the "action" is in a particularly intense game of Scrabble. Nevertheless, the film is quite riveting and emotional…

A fantastic performance by Sandy Nisson and Harry Shaw: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Marilyn Terrell!


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17 comments to "Love Letters"

  1. Zandt K
    December 11th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Does anyone know the music on this ?

  2. kpkonobi
    December 11th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Not to be a completely heartless Scrabble nerd but Harry scored 8 on the first play, not 4.

  3. matt
    December 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    Well that was depressing.

  4. Johnny Cat
    December 11th, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    Too many E's!

  5. Emily
    December 11th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Excellent. Thanks for sharing!

  6. Jason E.
    December 11th, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    What a beautiful short film. Well done.

  7. Dinobuddy
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    Zandt K,

    I don't know the first piece, which is VERY familiar, but the second piece is by Brian Eno, called Music for Airports (the whole piece is 17 minutes long).

  8. Brandon
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    The music is Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie.

  9. Going Like Sixty
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Looks like a typical film school film. Slow. Morose. Uninteresting. Predictable.

    How about she ninjas him with the scrabble board as he walks away, then steps over his body and goes in side with the dogs.

    Who's Agnes? and why do I care?

    I also noticed the first score error - and the second!
    Details people notice!

  10. Vonskippy
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Hopefully Agnes was at least 20 years younger, otherwise I just wasted another 5 minutes of my life watching yawntastic artschool dribble.

  11. ted
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    B
    3
    O
    1
    R
    1
    I
    1
    Y A W N
    4 1 2 1
    G
    2

  12. ted
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Oops, didn't work! lol

  13. Alex
    December 11th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    Neatorama's hardcore readers are so hard to please!

  14. Marie
    December 11th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    just as thrilling as an actual game of scrabble, which is to say: Not At All.

  15. Alex
    December 11th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    Good idea, ted. Proper execution requires the use of some HTML magic (can't use space, needs to use the code for non-breaking space)

           B
           O
           R
           I
    YAWN
           G

    Even then, I still needed to edit this comment several times to get the spacing right.

    But as I said, you guys are hard to please - I thought the video clip was fantastic!

  16. feygele
    December 12th, 2007 at 8:07 am

    Agreeing with kpkonobi, they didn't just mess up on the opening scores but on most scores. Clearly they can't do simple math, nor do they recognize what the 2W, 3W, 2L, and 3L squares mean.

  17. just a guy
    December 12th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    She's used a proper noun! Who's cheating now?!

    Seriously, though, i'm going to be unpopular here and say it wasn't boaring, but it was sad. I was hoping for a happier ending, though, like Agnes was his girlfriend from his youth or something.

    Oh well.


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