The Coriolis Effect (film)
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The four short film compilation release "Kisses in the Dark", including "The Coriolis Effect".
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| Directed by | Louis Venosta |
| Produced by | Kathryn Arnold |
| Written by | Louis Venosta |
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James Wilder Jennifer Rubin Dana Ashbrook Corinne Bohrer |
| Music by | Hal Lindes |
| Edited by | Luis Colina |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Coriolis Effect is a 1994 short black-and-white film starring James Wilder, Jennifer Rubin, Dana Ashbrook and Corinne Bohrer, whilst featuring a voice-only cameo appearance from Quentin Tarantino. It was written and directed by Louis Venosta, whilst being produced by Kathryn Arnold. The film's production companies were Secondary Modern Motion Pictures and Vanguard International Cinema.
The independent film was premiered in America at the New York New Directors/New Films Festival on March 26, 1994. It was the winning short film at the Venice Film Festival of 1994, where it won Venosta the Telepiù Award.
The film was released in America on both VHS and DVD via Vanguard Cinema. The release titled Kisses in the Dark compromised four independent short films who each were award-winning; The Coriolis Effect, Solly's Diner, Looping and Joe. The artwork for the release highlighted The Coriolis Effect as the main film, with Rubin pictured on the front and both Rubin and Wilder's names credited, whilst noting the cameo appearance of Tarantino. In 2007, the collection was made available via Amazon Video.
Seemingly, the film dated back a couple of years before its release, where in the Hollywood Reporter of October 7, 1991, the issue noted that "Principal photography was completed last month in northern Texas on 'The Coriolis Effect,' a short film written and directed by Louis Venosta."
For the film's limited theatrical release, it was paired up as a double-feature with a 1993 German short film titled Making Up!. On October 21, 1994, it was noted in the Los Angeles Daily News that the pairing of the films would court disaster, with the article stating, "Putting the short films 'The Coriolis Effect' and 'Making Up!' together on the same bill, as the Nuart has this week, is like fixing up RuPaul, the cross-dressing entertainer, on a blind date with a tomboy. It'll never work, because each wants too much to be the other."
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