The 20th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival returns to San Francisco’s beautiful Castro Theatre and the Goethe-Institut auditorium with a selection of the best award-winning films and talents in contemporary European cinema. The festival programs screen through January 20. Continue reading
Category Archives: Films: Shorts
The Bride of EAT MY SHORTS Goes West
With the release of The Hateful Eight we presented a selection of short Westerns. The response was terrific, and we return with The Bride, The Son, The Daughter and/or The Revenge of Goes West to entertain you. There are comedies and animated selections. Continue reading
EAT MY SHORTS Go West
Two major Westerns open this Winter, The Hateful Eight and The Revenant. We thought it would be fun to look at short form Westerns through the history of cinema. We review The Hateful Eight this week in In Critics Corner and will be back with more Western shorts on January 8 when The Revenant will be reviewed. Continue reading
EAT MY SHORTS: “May the Farce Be With You” HARDWARE WARS, THX 1138, Fan Films, Bloopers & More
George Lucas got his start making short films in film school at USC including the 1967 award-winning science fiction classic Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB that inspired his first feature length film. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts: Hitchcock-Truffaut
Happy Birthday, Old Blue Eyes!
by Kenn Fong
Francis Albert Sinatra was born Saturday, December 12, 1915. Let’s look back at a few stories about Mr. Sinatra which we published earlier this year in anticipation of his centennial. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts – The Stolen Moment- Film Noir‘s Neon Nights and Making Cocktails
“Neon enhances a cityscape, keeps a city’s spirits up in the wee small hours and in all kind of weather, casts color on drab pavements, bounces crazy reflections off dark windows, and draws the eye upward to where you might not otherwise be looking.”
—Tom Downs, from the Foreword of San Francisco Neon Continue reading
Eat My Shorts – HOUDINI
Critics Corner: Great Animation for the World
The International Tournée of Animation started a trend in the mid 1960s. It collected adventurous animated shorts into a feature-length collection that screened at museums and colleges. By the late 1970s cinemas were added and soon packages appeared including Animation Celebration, Mike & Spike’s various touring shows, Outrageous Animation and others. Audiences and the film industry discovered John Lasseter, Mike Judge, Matt Groening, Don Hertzfeld, Tim Burton, Phil Tippett, Bill Plympton, and many more. Continue reading
EAT MY SHORTS: Leonard Maltin Selects Three Hilarious Shorts
Leonard Maltin has written and lectured extensively about short films. Continue reading
EAT MY SHORTS with Joel Edgerton
Australian Joel Edgerton is having quite a year. Audiences have become aware of him from his roles in Star Wars Episodes II & III: (2002 & 2005)), Kinky Boots. Continue reading
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