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The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Sva Theater, NYC
I became an animation fan -- a true aficionado -- early in life. It had little or nothing to do with children's shows on television (Hanna-Barbera, Speed Racer, Gigantor, et al), though I watched and liked most of them. Rather, it was probably when I first saw Fantasia (likely mid-1960s), and then The Jungle Book (1967) and (of course!) The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (1968). By that time, I was actively looking for good (or great) animation. I was not a fan of Disney (though I have a sentimental fondness for The Aristocats (1970)), and anime feature films did not become widely known in the U.S. until the 1980s.
So when I heard about something called the Fantastic Animation Festival in 1977, I made sure to check it out. Comprised of a series of 18 animated short films, it was exactly what animation aficionados were looking for.
The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Sva Theater, NYC
I became an animation fan -- a true aficionado -- early in life. It had little or nothing to do with children's shows on television (Hanna-Barbera, Speed Racer, Gigantor, et al), though I watched and liked most of them. Rather, it was probably when I first saw Fantasia (likely mid-1960s), and then The Jungle Book (1967) and (of course!) The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (1968). By that time, I was actively looking for good (or great) animation. I was not a fan of Disney (though I have a sentimental fondness for The Aristocats (1970)), and anime feature films did not become widely known in the U.S. until the 1980s.
So when I heard about something called the Fantastic Animation Festival in 1977, I made sure to check it out. Comprised of a series of 18 animated short films, it was exactly what animation aficionados were looking for.
- 6/8/2017
- by Ian Alterman
- www.culturecatch.com
With Legendary Picture’s upcoming feature Godzilla releasing wide on May 16, 2014, here’s the first part of our extensive coverage from the set: a lengthy interview with director Gareth Edwards.
Beware - this coverage is as full of spoilers as ‘the Big G’ is radioactive (oops, there’s your first one there), so if you’d rather remain in the dark, not unlike San Francisco after Godzilla rolls over it (oh, there’s number two!), stop right here. Otherwise, suit up and Halo drop with us into gargantuan mayhem.
Part reboot and part direct sequel to director Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original of the same name, the 2014 Edwards-helmed Godzilla features actors Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), David Strathairn (The Bourne Legacy), Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe, in a script by Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham and Frank Darabont, which pits the world’s most...
Beware - this coverage is as full of spoilers as ‘the Big G’ is radioactive (oops, there’s your first one there), so if you’d rather remain in the dark, not unlike San Francisco after Godzilla rolls over it (oh, there’s number two!), stop right here. Otherwise, suit up and Halo drop with us into gargantuan mayhem.
Part reboot and part direct sequel to director Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original of the same name, the 2014 Edwards-helmed Godzilla features actors Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), David Strathairn (The Bourne Legacy), Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe, in a script by Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham and Frank Darabont, which pits the world’s most...
- 3/19/2014
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
Super-8 Cowboy Movie Madness was originally scheduled for January 7th but because of the weather we’re having in St. Louis, it’s been pushed back one week. The new date is January 14th
Saddle up pardners and mosey on down to The Way Out Club on January 14th for Super-8 Cowboy Movie Madness! Even if you don’t think you like westerns, stop on by cause we’re screening some dynamic and offbeat ones that will make you a fan of the genre. Leave your six-shooter at home! We’re showing, on Super-8 Sound film projected on a large screen (in condensed format – average length: 15 minutes): Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, John Wayne in True Grit, Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck in How The West Was Won, Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven,...
Saddle up pardners and mosey on down to The Way Out Club on January 14th for Super-8 Cowboy Movie Madness! Even if you don’t think you like westerns, stop on by cause we’re screening some dynamic and offbeat ones that will make you a fan of the genre. Leave your six-shooter at home! We’re showing, on Super-8 Sound film projected on a large screen (in condensed format – average length: 15 minutes): Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, John Wayne in True Grit, Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck in How The West Was Won, Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven,...
- 1/7/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Saddle up pardners and mosey on down to The Way Out Club on January 7th for Super-8 Cowboy Movie Madness! Even if you don’t think you like westerns, stop on by cause we’re screening some dynamic and offbeat ones that will make you a fan of the genre. Leave your six-shooter at home! We’re showing, on Super-8 Sound film projected on a large screen (in condensed format – average length: 15 minutes): Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, John Wayne in True Grit, Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck in How The West Was Won, Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven, Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, and Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles.
Non-western films we’re showing January 7th are: The Invisible Man (1932), Bambi Meets Godzilla,...
Non-western films we’re showing January 7th are: The Invisible Man (1932), Bambi Meets Godzilla,...
- 1/3/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Marv Newland’s classic animated short Bambi Meets Godzilla has been delighting animation fans since way back in 1969. The roughly 90-second clip, which comes in at number 38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons, has been playing at festivals and even turned up on some copies of the VHS release of Godzilla 1985 (though it was never made with Disney's approval). But it’s been hard to find a good copy online – until now. Coda Shetterly has made a complete re-creation/restoration of Newland’s short – one that is viewable at 4K resolution and features a 5.1 audio track – all the better to hear the film’s biggest moment, I guess. The new version certainly looks better than the old ones floating around on the Internet...
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- 2/18/2013
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
We've heard of movie marathons that last all day…10-, 12-hour events, but this is ridiculous! The Boston Sci-Fi Festival runs from February 10-20, but the really cool thing for fans is The 'Thon, the 24-hour film festival that caps off the event. Now that's a lot of sci-fi!
Described as "the coolest sleepover you'll ever attend," The 'Thon runs a dozen or more films and will completely inundate your brain with science fiction. Follow this link to get more info or purchase your tickets to The 'Thon.
About The 'Thon
The 37th Boston Science Fiction Festival, which is believed to be the world's oldest genre festival, continues with a 10-day run which started February 10, 2012. The Gort, the annual award, is given out for Best Feature and Best Short. This year they're adding a Steampunk category for Feature and Short as well.
The festival concludes with The 'Thon, which started...
Described as "the coolest sleepover you'll ever attend," The 'Thon runs a dozen or more films and will completely inundate your brain with science fiction. Follow this link to get more info or purchase your tickets to The 'Thon.
About The 'Thon
The 37th Boston Science Fiction Festival, which is believed to be the world's oldest genre festival, continues with a 10-day run which started February 10, 2012. The Gort, the annual award, is given out for Best Feature and Best Short. This year they're adding a Steampunk category for Feature and Short as well.
The festival concludes with The 'Thon, which started...
- 2/16/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Take This Waltz With four nominations, Michel Hazanavicius' silent comedy-drama The Artist is the top nominee in the international categories of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's 2011 Awards. [Full list of Vancouver Film Critics nominees.] Starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, The Artist is set at the dawn of the talkie era, as screen icon George Valentin (Dujardin) sees his star fade while newcomer Peppy Miller (Bejo) becomes a hit in early talkies. Hazanavicius says The Artist was inspired by the life of silent-era superstar John Gilbert, but the film — officially an original screenplay — clearly owes quite a bit to What Price Hollywood? and the first two A Star Is Born movies. (Gilbert was, to a certain extent, an inspiration for those movies as well. His career stalled, while wife Ina Claire fared well in a couple of early talkies, most notably The Royal Family of Broadway. Gilbert's one-time girlfriend Greta Garbo, I should add,...
- 1/3/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Simon Paul Augustine
Shorts:
8. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969).
Long before South Park broke out of Diy cartoon obscurity to become a cultural force, and You Tube allowed every aspiring animator to crawl out of the woodwork, independent animation was represented by things like this two minute national treasure. It was a burst of irreverence and innovation way back in the days when to see this sort of piece you had to set up a Super 8 or 16mm projector in the den to entertain folks for a special occasion - yes, handle actual celluloid (other short films like Hardware Wars, a satire of Star Wars featuring toasters battling other kitchen appliances, fell roughly in this same category).
Read on for the rest!
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Shorts:
8. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969).
Long before South Park broke out of Diy cartoon obscurity to become a cultural force, and You Tube allowed every aspiring animator to crawl out of the woodwork, independent animation was represented by things like this two minute national treasure. It was a burst of irreverence and innovation way back in the days when to see this sort of piece you had to set up a Super 8 or 16mm projector in the den to entertain folks for a special occasion - yes, handle actual celluloid (other short films like Hardware Wars, a satire of Star Wars featuring toasters battling other kitchen appliances, fell roughly in this same category).
Read on for the rest!
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- 1/7/2011
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Fangoria was sent one of the coolest, funniest little slabs of stop-motion silliness we've ever seen in the form of short film, Rise Of The Living Corpse, last week. Taking its badass cues from the mother of all anti-movie short movies Bambi Meets Godzilla, Canadian animation professor Christopher Walsh (he teaches animation at the legendary arts institution Sheridan College in Oakville, On) has made something so cool and quick that if you blink you might miss its awesomeness. Have a look!
- 11/2/2010
- by samueldzimmerman@gmail.com (Chris Alexander)
- Fangoria
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