(program running time: 90 min.)

Filmmaker and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge has personally selected and commissioned an all-new collection of the world’s best and most recent animated short films. Outrageous humor and visual audaciousness are the unifying qualities of the 2008 edition, which includes HOT DOG (Bill Plympton, 2007); THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM (Steve Dildarian, 2005); OPERATOR (Matthew Walker, 2007); WELCOME ABOARD (Joel Trussell, 2008); WESTERN SPAGHETTI (PES, 2008); PSYCHO TOWN (Dave Carter, 2008); and THIS WAY UP (Smith & Foulkes, 2008), plus a dazzling showcase of work from France’s Gobelins School of animation and some surprises! No Take-10 tickets or passes.

(program running time: 90 min.)

Filmmaker and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge has personally selected and commissioned an all-new collection of the world’s best and most recent animated short films. Outrageous humor and visual audaciousness are the unifying qualities of the 2008 edition, which includes HOT DOG (Bill Plympton, 2007); THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM (Steve Dildarian, 2005); OPERATOR (Matthew Walker, 2007); WELCOME ABOARD (Joel Trussell, 2008); WESTERN SPAGHETTI (PES, 2008); PSYCHO TOWN (Dave Carter, 2008); and THIS WAY UP (Smith & Foulkes, 2008), plus a dazzling showcase of work from France’s Gobelins School of animation and some surprises! No Take-10 tickets or passes.

(Charles Chaplin, US 1947, 123 min.)

Leaving the Little Tramp behind, Charles Chaplin plays a soft-spoken French gentleman who supports his children and crippled wife by marrying rich widows and killing them. Chaplin’s theme—that if war is the logical extension of diplomacy, then murder is the logical extension of business—is delivered in a series of darkly hilarious and elegantly staged comic sequences, culminating in another of the director’s movingly poignant conclusions. Almost unanimously vilified upon its original release, it today takes its rightful place among Chaplin’s masterpieces.

(program running time: 90 min.)

Filmmaker and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge has personally selected and commissioned an all-new collection of the world’s best and most recent animated short films. Outrageous humor and visual audaciousness are the unifying qualities of the 2008 edition, which includes HOT DOG (Bill Plympton, 2007); THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM (Steve Dildarian, 2005); OPERATOR (Matthew Walker, 2007); WELCOME ABOARD (Joel Trussell, 2008); WESTERN SPAGHETTI (PES, 2008); PSYCHO TOWN (Dave Carter, 2008); and THIS WAY UP (Smith & Foulkes, 2008), plus a dazzling showcase of work from France’s Gobelins School of animation and some surprises! No Take-10 tickets or passes.

(Charles Chaplin, US 1921, 60 min.)

The Little Tramp (Charles Chaplin) raises a street-smart orphan (Jackie Coogan) in a series of hilariously picaresque episodes. Chaplin’s first feature as writer, director, and star is one of his most memorably moving, but also one of the most popular comedies of the silent era. Preceded by THE TRAMP (Charles Chaplin, US 1915, 30 min.) Live piano by Philip C. Carli.