by Karl Cohen
At the 42nd annual SIGGRAPH, the computer industry’s largest professional gathering, there were six major production sessions about animated features. Continue reading
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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
‘Walt and Dali: Architects of the Imagination’ at the Disney Museum
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney in Spain, 1957. (Gift of Diane Disney Miller, collection Walt Disney Foundation; © Disney.)
by Karl Cohen
“Walt and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination” at The Walt Disney Family Museum is an amazing experience full of original paintings, drawings, animation art, photographs, video clips, archival documents and an excellent audio tour narrated by Sigourney Weaver. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts: THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER
When we decided to review the new feature film Steak (R)evolution, it inspired a desire to look for an appropriate short, and it didn’t take long to ask Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton if we could feature his recent work The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts: UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA by Carlo Vogele
We think that you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll never look at a fish in quite the same way after you see and hear this delightful three-minute surprise. Continue reading
San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Rediscover the Outrageous, Inventive Comedies of Charley Bowers
by Karl Cohen
Charley Bowers’s mature comedies, made in the last years of the silent era (1926–1928) are brilliant surreal works that feature outrageous Rube Goldberg-like magical inventions. Continue reading
There’s Something About Mary: The World of Mary Blair
by Bill Kinder
My first visit to the Walt Disney Family Museum, a couple of years ago, offered way more than I had time to cover in a leisurely morning with out-of-town family guests. Now planning a return trip, I’m resolved to focus on the special exhibit on now through the September 7: “The World of Mary Blair.” Continue reading
Editor’s Pick: Oddball Film + Video
by Michael Guillén
With San Francisco’s neighborhood theaters biting the dust like Amerindian buffalo, it’s gratifying to know there are still alternate screening venues like Oddball Film + Video, a stock footage company based in San Francisco whose main business is licensing unusual stock footage to producers of feature films, documentaries, commercials, broadcast television, music videos, as well as web and new media productions. Continue reading
My Wonderful Evening with Marc Davis, One of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men (Part 2 of 2)
by Karl Cohen
Read Part I of Karl Cohen’s essay, published in last week’s issue, here.
After enjoying the “Leading Ladies and Femmes Fatales: The Art of Marc Davis” exhibit currently on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum and talking with Andres Deja, I went into the museum’s lower lobby to collect my thoughts. Alice Davis, Marc’s wife, was seated at a nearby table and invited me to join her. One of the first things she told me was that Walt was the best boss she ever had. After attending Chounaird Art Institute, Alice had worked as a clothing designer. Walt hired her, from time to time, to design costumes. Her first job with him was on Sleeping Beauty. Continue reading
My Wonderful Evening with Marc Davis, One of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men (Part 1 of 2)
by Karl Cohen
When I was invited to the press preview of “Leading Ladies and Femmes Fatales: The Art of Marc Davis,” at the Walt Disney Family Museum, I wasn’t expecting to be swept up by a remarkable, immersive celebration of the man’s life. Davis died January 12, 2000, but the art in this comprehensive exhibition still inspires, presenting his joyful personality through animation drawings, well chosen quotes, and an informative video interview. Continue reading
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