Remember French Cuff? Well, m’colleague Nathan and I have made a sequel. It’s nearing the end of its editing. Here are some stills.

Another movie I made! I just completed a big project for the Bobby Ball Talent Agency in Los Angeles. Every year they send a holiday video to their clients. Recently, each video parodies a popular TV show, and this year, they asked me to write a script in the style of Mad Men.

Ness: Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done.
Capone: What’d you say? What’re you saying?
Ness: I said, “Never stop fighting till the fight is done.”
Capone: What?
Ness: You heard me, Capone. It’s over.
Capone: Get out, you’re nothing but a lot of talk and a badge.

Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro in The Untouchables. This movie, with its wacky Benny Hill score, embarrassingly unambiguous heroes and villains, actors looking down at their marks, and Sean Connery once again playing against type, failed to live up to expectations. It was pr’y bad.

Here’s a movie my friend Nathan and I made. It’s called French Cuff.

French Cuff analyzes language, communication, and humor. The symbolism is shattering, the themes span generations. The film consists of tableaux aimed at exploring our boundaries and challenging them. When a boundary doesn’t make sense, it is removed. Like Chaplin’s Tramp, the main character Beans investigate universal human impulses in extraordinary circumstances, a human being slightly adrift in a modern world. It’s bound by a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized society.