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Salute Your Shorts: Pixar, Part 1 - The Early Years
Up was the big movie a couple weekends ago, opening at number one in the box office with an impressive $68.2 million dollar haul. Another movie did... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
There are few figures more polarizing in comedy these days than Seth MacFarlane. Admittedly he’s no Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia, but unlike them... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Eros
Discussing Coffee and Cigarettes two weeks ago, we took a look at Jim Jarmusch’s construction of a feature... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
There are stranger films then Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno series of shorts for the Sundance Channel. But I challenge anyone to find any others that are... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Coffee and Cigarettes
Writing about Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes in this space is cheating a little bit... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Science Is Fiction - The Films of Jean Painleve
One of the big clichés in pretty much any sort of media criticism is to say that a work is “unclassifiable”... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: The Music Videos of Michel Gondry
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.In its short history as a quasi-medium, music videos have produced a fair amount of directors-to-watch, from Anton Corbijn to David Fincher, but rarely has it been a place for artists to grow into maturity. For the most part, when a video director has moved onto bigger (not necessarily better) new things the videos point to their later interests but don’t really follow them. This is only natural, considering that you can’t tell what kind... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Godard, Truffaut and A Story of Water
The French New Wave more or less began with Claude Chabrol’s first films, but by the end of 1960... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Spike Jonze Skate Videos
Back before he was directing feature films, Spike Jonze was best-known as one of the few auteur music-video directors. But before he was directing music videos, he was directing... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSalute Your Shorts: Fleischer Studios
Earlier this week, Winstar released a new restoration of Fleischer Studios’ Gulliver’s Travels. As the first non-Disney animated feature film made in America, it was a historical milestone... read more
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