Salute Your Shorts: Godard, Truffaut and A Story of Water

By Sean Gandert at 4:30 PM on April 2, 2009

The French New Wave more or less began with Claude Chabrol’s first films, but by the end of 1960...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Spike Jonze Skate Videos

By Sean Gandert at 2:15 PM on March 26, 2009

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

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Salute Your Shorts: Fleischer Studios

By Sean Gandert at 5:00 PM on March 12, 2009

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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Salute Your Shorts: Selections from Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film 1947-1986

By Sean Gandert at 4:50 PM on March 5, 2009

As far as artistic forms go, avant-garde films are definitely one of the most obscure ones out there that are culturally recognized. Historically, it was because not only were these films...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: The Lonely Island

By Sean Gandert at 2:27 PM on February 26, 2009

By the time The Lonely Island was finally discovered by the masses with its viraltastic Chris Parnell collaboration “Lazy Sunday,” the group had already been hard at work for a...  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Oscar Nominee Rundown

By Sean Gandert at 5:00 PM on February 19, 2009

For most of the year short films are pretty much ignored...  read more

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