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Salute Your Shorts: The Golden Age of Television
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.The title of the Criterion Collection’s The Golden Age of Television can seem like quite a misnomer. For my money, the greatest age for television is right now, and to anyone who’d dispute this, I’d just send a link to Paste's list of the top 20 shows of the decade. We could’ve easily continued the list to 50 without breaking a sweat. Hell, if you include some more idiosyncratic favorites, there are more than 100 shows... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Wes Anderson's "Bottle Rocket"
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Whatever else he may be, Wes Anderson has been a large figure in American filmmaking for the past decade. When the AV Club put out its list of 10 Films that Couldn’t Have Happened Without Wes Anderson two years ago, the publication could've kept the list going for ages, and since then the number of films and filmmakers he’s influenced has only grown longer. Especially of late, Anderson tends to have apologetic fans who love... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Dan Harmon's Channel 101 Shows
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.For any longtime fans of Dan Harmon’s work, Community is a surprise. Not the fact that it’s good, no, that’s something that we could all be pretty sure of. It’s that the show, a relatively conventional sitcom, could come from the avant-garde co-founder of Channel 101, whose prior claim to fame involves shows such as Computerman and Laser Fart. He’s long been a superstar for a relatively niche group of Los Angeles filmmakers and comedians,... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Paris, je t'aime
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Anthology films have been around since at least 1932, when Grand Hotel won the Academy Award for best picture. It’s only recently, though, that micro-anthology films have become a fad. Previous works had compiled various shorts, but these shorts were rarely less than 20 minutes long and because of this were frequently no less accomplished than features themselves. Even when films themselves weren’t made in this fashion, they’ve sometimes been grouped together simply because non-feature... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Mira Nair's Short Films
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. Criterion’s new DVD/Blu-Ray release of Monsoon Wedding offers not just a beautiful new print of one of the most successful foreign films ever released in America, but also a majority of its directors short films. Its seven shorts span the length of Mira Nair's career, from just out of school to last year. Perhaps moreso than her feature work, which has included some films that seem made more obviously for pay rather than personal... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: How to Become a Man/Woman in Educational Short Films
One of the most neglected (for a good reason) genres of film is educational shorts. In a nutshell: They’re pretty terrible... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: The Coen Brothers' Short Films and Commercials
Since the 1980s, pretty much every director has cut their teeth on short works before moving into features... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Wallace and Gromit
Begun while director Nick Park was still in college... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: The Office Webisodes
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Even the studios stopped denying several years back that television’s not doing so hot. Having atrophied viewership due to the internet and video games, the medium’s no longer the one stop free-entertainment shop it used to be, meaning that if people in the industry want to keep their jobs, they’d best think up ways to tap into these newfound interwebs to keep their advertising from drying up completely.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Shane Acker's "9" and Other Early Works
When one of your friends tells you they’re going to write a book, it’s easy to think to yourself, "Sure, go ahead, waste that time putting out something..." read more
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