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Pixar Short Films: Looking Back at Twenty-Seven Years of Little Gems
This week’s opening of Pixar’s latest film, Monsters University, a sequel starring fan favorites Mike Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan, also signals the debut…
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Short Film: ‘Fading Lives’ Is a Haunting, Politically Charged Neighborhood Elegy
Why Watch? Because it’s Flag Day, and all of our flags are now made in China! (This is not exactly true, but check the labels…
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Short Film: A Bloody End Is Nigh in ‘The Apocalypse’
Why Watch? Today is the End. Rather, This Is the End opens today. It seems like an appropriate time to highlight another comic take on…
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Short Film: Take a Thrilling Trip Back to Ancient Hawai’i with ‘Until the Sun Sets’
Why Watch? Today is Kamehameha Day, a Hawaiian public holiday honoring King Kamehameha the Great, who first established the unified Kingdom of Hawai’i in 1810.…
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Short Film: ‘The Pirate of Love Vol. I’ Is So Much Better Than ‘Searching for Sugarman’
Why Watch? An Icelander found a CD, 15 songs by an unknown American musician named Daniel C. The lyrics give plenty of hints. He’s definitely…
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Short Film: “Küzd?k” Is a Witty Animated Twist on a Classical Idea
https://medium.com/media/4f45d5e21d37cc4066dda82600641660/href Why Watch? This quite short but still entirely provocative short won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. It’s the…
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Cannes Short Film: Trick Your Eyes with Norman McLaren’s Trippy ‘Blinkity Blank’
https://medium.com/media/8e7fde26a018d134ff79df39a57aa30c/href Why Watch? For starters, today begins the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and this trippy short won the short film Palme d’Or back in 1955.…
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The 10 Best Short Films of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival
As usual, Tribeca presented quite the diverse batch of shorts this year. There are plenty of new voices from New York City, a whole slew…
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Watch Trailers for The Live-Action Short Films on the 2012 Oscar Shortlist
Last week the Academy announced its shortlist for Best Live Action Short, a typically eclectic and international bunch. However, forgive me if I approach this…