All articles by John Anderson
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In Focus: Bill Plympton's 'Animation Lollapalooza'
The older couple was muttering. 'This isn't funny!' the husband said, shifting in his seat as animator Patrick Smith's Puppet - about a masochist, handcuffed by self-punishing sock puppets - played out on the tiny theatre's screen. What the couple expected was Looney Tunes. What they got was something else.'Animation ...
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Canada - Fantastic Forum
It's sure not your Uncle Walt's Fantasia. Swedish vampires, contagious Spanish cannibals, feudal female Korean crime-solvers and general Japanese insanity have never been a big part of the Disney world, but they are the meat and potatoes (mostly meat) of Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, the 12th edition of which ...
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United States - Young people filming
"I directed a feature film when I was 17 years old," says Jesse Harris, 22, "and this is a thousand times harder. This is insane.""This" is the National Film Festival for Talented Youth whose quasi-nerdy nickname is Nffty and whose youngest film-maker is nine. The Seattle-based festival will make its ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg had just directed Al Pacino's breakthrough performance in The Panic In Needle Park when he wrangled Pacino - and co-star Gene Hackman - for Scarecrow, a character study of two footloose drifters. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or in 1973: Schatzberg has since been back ...