For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
Watch it here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8n1xa3
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
I’ve written about both these things in passing if not in a dedicated post that are linked in my mind. They’re two of my newer cinematic traditions that occur as the year winds down that don’t just allow me to slow down for a minute and reflect, but demand it. One is the TCM Remembers video which is always graceful, respectful, inclusive and omits the postmortem popularity contest of the applause at the Academy Awards In Memoriam the other is Criterion’s gift of room tone. The “Remembers” video is self explanatory. For those unaware, room tone is the practice of recording the tone while of a space in order to smooth out potential audio issues in post. Everyone is quiet, but no space is truly silent and that natural tone is what filmmakers need. Recording room tone always struck me as the most meditative practice on a film set and a short video of it to watch and listen to it is quite soothing.
So here are both the aforementioned 2023 videos.
Criterion Room Tone 2023.
Newsreel of the 1947 New York blizzard.
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
On the Internet I’m sure you’ve seen memes pop up on dates featured in popular movies. Some notable versions of the idea of a movie holiday are Mean Girls day, Back to the Future day, and Breakfast Club day. However, the dates that get viral or are pushed by social media teams aren’t the only ones worth noting.
Not only does About A Boy still hold up, especially as an early performance of the now proven and closing-in-on legendary career of Toni Collette and the debut of Nicholas Hoult, but it’s easy to forget that it’s easy to forget that it’s a Christmas movie for peeople who hate Christmas movies. The whole movit isn’t set wholly within the season, does bristle at over-commercialization and still redeems a seemingly unredeemable character.
Hugh Grant grumbling about the Christmas song (original to the film and not that bad) that “Santa’s Super Sleigh” is playing on “November-the-sodding nineteenth” is not only relatable but 21 years later is a date that gets exceeded for premature Yueltide music by more. The 19th seems a perfect date for viewing this film as getting that close to (American) Thanksgiving it’s hard to avoid here.
For Short Film Saturday for most of the coming year I will revisit the animated shorts that were presented in snippets by the King of Cartoons on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. And here you’ll get to see the whole thing.
The Movie Rat 