Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, 18 November 1928: Mike Pilewski’s history of cartoons, including Mickey’s first film, half a year before Steamboat Willie: Plane Crazy.
Do you feel lucky?
My name is Lisa
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. “My Name is Lisa” is a prize-winning short film about Alzheimer’s Disease, which causes gradual memory loss and is still without a cure. The filmmakers say 250,000 children, age 8-18 are caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. It’s very hard on kids, though my nieces and nephews will probably […]
Food Fight
Love in a Backward World
This five-minute film tells the story of a couple who spot each other on a crowded street and fall in love. Although everyone else in the world around them moves backwards, they move forward, and so find each other. For Angela & Ulrich.
Western Spaghetti
Written and Directed by PES
Miller auditions
“Selling yourself” is extremely embarrassing and humiliating, right? This poor bear sure thinks so. See the Miller Audition ad by Spike Jonze (spoofing the Budweiser ads that used animals). If you’re “just” interviewing for a job, hey, at least you’re not auditioning as an animal actor.
