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
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