(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.
(Werner Herzog, US 2007, 99 min.)
Filmmaker and adventurer Werner Herzog takes his camera to perhaps the most remote part of the planet, Antarctica. Joining the community at the McMurdo Station at the South Pole, Herzog photographs forbidden locations such as the under-ice depths of the Ross Sea to the brink of the Mount Erebus volcano. A perfectly witty and sardonic travel guide, Herzog’s marvelous narration is surpassed by his stunning images of a practically science-fiction landscape that demands to be seen on a big screen.
(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: 100 min.)
Join us for the first area showing of acclaimed independent animator Don Hertzfeldt’s latest short film, I Am So Proud of You (2008). In part two of a cycle of films that began with Everything Is Going to Be O.K. (2007), dark family secrets cast shadows over our hero Bill’s recovery. Over the last ten years, a loyal cult following has developed for Hertzfeldt’s surreal, existentially philosophical, and uproariously funny work. Hertzfeldt will be with us in person as we present his latest masterpiece and some of his earlier shorts, including Everything Is Going to Be O.K., Billy’s Balloon (1997), and more. Tickets: $10, $8 members/students. No Take-10 tickets or passes.
After 5 p.m. on Friday, November 14, tickets will no longer be available online or by phone, they will only be available in person. You can buy tickets at the museum’s admission desk from 10-5 on Saturday, or starting at 7:15 at the Dryden’s box-office, as long as tickets are still available.
(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.
