| A Hell of a Note
(1976, 28 minutes, 16mm B&W restored to 1080 24p, USA)
Directed and written by Eagle Pennell
With Lou Perryman and Sonny Davis
Detailing one Friday in the day-at-a-time existence of three friends in Austin, Texas, the first short by Eagle Pennell is unmistakably the work of an instinctive filmmaker. Eschewing visual precociousness or narrative bravura, the film displays something much rarer: an assured grasp of tone and rhythm, a sense of story-telling through small talk and detail and an honest, unsentimental affection for the world in front of the lens.
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