The 2010 Academy Award winner for animated short is kind of a mix of Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, and Dark Knight all animated with corporate logos. Brilliant but stay away if you would take offense at Big Boy, Ronald McDonald, and the Michelin Man cussing and shooting things up. Logorama at Vimeo
Continue readingA Contest for Multimedia Work at AU
Media Services’ Digital Media Studio and the New Media Center are jointly sponsoring a contest to promote multimedia work created in our labs. Submit your class assignments, win prizes and come to the festival screening May 1. Contest rules and application form.
Continue readingTONIGHT – Tuesday, March 23 at 7pm – Nick Clooney Presents… Movies that Chnaged Us
Tuesday March 23 at 7pm in Ward 2The Movies that Changed Us Join Nick Clooney for an evening of clips from Birth of a Nation (1915), Love Me Tonight (1932), Triumph of the Will (1935), and the Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Discover how each of these films helped change the country’s political and […]
Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles
The Red Shoes – HU DVD 105The Front – HU DVD 343Our Daily Bread – HU DVD 478W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films – HU DVD 507My Life as a Dog – HU DVD 508Beat Street – HU DVD 662Faraw! – HU DVD 2328Haramuya – HU DVD 2329Ponyo – HU DVD 6937South Park (Seasons 1-4) – […]
Continue readingTrashy Travels: Baltimore: John Waters’s Movie Locations and other Divine Dirt
To know Baltimore is to love Baltimore. Baltimore filmmaker loves his city and continues to situate his movies there. If you’re a fan of the director of Hairspray, Polyester, and Pink Flamingos and have a car you might want to make a pilgrimage. Trashy Travels link
Continue readingAdViews: A digital archive of vintage television commercials
Quoted from the AdViews site:“AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising […]
Continue readingFilm Screening Tonight: Tuesday, March 16 at 7pm – Wechsler Theater
Bottled Water: A Big Business with Big Problems(see AU master calendar entry) By Chris O’Brien, AU’s Director of Sustainability, Paul Wapner, Associate Professor, and Jennifer Jones, President of Eco-SenseView the documentary Tapped and get a behind-the-scenes look at the bottled water industry and its vast array of negative consequences, from production of the plastic bottles […]
Continue readingDisneyland Dream: Classic home movie now on DVD
54 years ago Robbins Barstow made Disneyland Dream about his family’s trip to Disneyland after winning a nationwide contest sponsored by Scotch tape. He now makes it available on DVD. From Boing Boing–“This is the most delightful historical Disneyland movie I’ve seen — including the old TV shows where Walt tours the park. Young Master […]
Continue readingWatch episodes of NOW, now.
“Hosted by veteran journalist David Brancaccio, NOW on PBS goes beyond the noisy churn of the news cycle to probe the most important issues facing democracy and give viewers the context to explore their relationship with the larger world.” –PBS website. First started by Bill Moyers back in 2002, this news program gave issues more […]
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