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Salute Your Shorts: Bill Frisell Scores With Buster Keaton

By Sean Gandert on 2:30 PM on September 3, 2009

At least as far as the general population is concerned, silent movies sound like an old, tinkling saloon piano, featuring not so much musical scores as background noise to avert boredom...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Chantal Akerman's "Saute ma ville"

By Sean Gandert on 3:30 PM on August 28, 2009

Like Neill Blomkamp and Jacques Tati’s shorts the last two weeks, Chantal Akerman’s first film, “Saute ma ville,” is best understood in relation to one of the director’s feature films...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Jacques Tati's "Cours du soir"

By Sean Gandert on 2:15 PM on August 20, 2009

Considered one of the comedic geniuses of cinema, Jacques Tati has always had an odd reputation due to his mixture of comedy and avant-garde filmmaking...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp's Science-Fiction Reality

By Sean Gandert on 3:00 PM on August 13, 2009

After several years working as a 3D animator, Neill Blomkamp has gone from music video/commercial director to feature director remarkably fast...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Tezuka Osamu's Experimental Animation

By Sean Gandert on 4:00 PM on August 6, 2009

With Phil Mulloy’s films, it’s easy to see the gradual development of an artist. Even though he’d been working in the industry for years, Mulloy’s animation had a textbook level of gradual improvement that’s easy to follow from point A to B. By the time Osamu Tezuka began working in animation, he was already a widely popular manga artist and seemed to arrive fully formed...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Phil Mulloy's Extreme Animation

By Sean Gandert on 4:30 PM on July 30, 2009

Mainstream or no, one of the values most appreciated in animation is beauty...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Way We Live Now

By Sean Gandert on 11:00 AM on July 23, 2009

Since the late '90s, one of the main ways for a young filmmaker to get noticed and, with any luck, make his or her way into feature films...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Why We Fight

By Sean Gandert on 4:45 PM on July 2, 2009

Perhaps it's no surprise that the greatest patriotic films ever made about the United States were also made by the United States...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Alain Resnais' Documentaries

By Sean Gandert on 3:15 PM on June 25, 2009

Packaged with Criterion’s release of Last Year at Marienbad were two shorter works from Alain Resnais' earlier years as a documentary filmmaker...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Pixar, Part 2 - The Other Years

By Sean Gandert on 3:15 PM on June 18, 2009

Pixar wouldn’t create another short film until 1997 due to its focus on developing economic solvency through commercials and, ultimately, Toy Story. But in a move that’s completely unique...  read more

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