The Filmic Five: Special YouTube Edition!
Your Weekly Film Update By Critic and Film Scholar Jack Hanley
I. Interview I Am Revisiting This Week
I SIMPLY ADORE animation...and legendary animator Bill Plympton is an icon of American animation whose amazing work includes the feature IDIOTS AND ANGELS (2008) as well as over 25 animated shorts. From the Academy-Award nominated short YOUR FACE, to his collaboration with Kanye West, to his most recent submission to the Academy's Best Animated Short category, THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER, Plympton has personally hand-drawn every single frame of his amazing canon of clever and innovative work. Bill's genius can be seen in the feature documentary ADVENTURES IN PLYMPTOONS- he recently joined film critic (and gushing fan) Jack Hanley to discuss his influences, animation blogs, Disney vs Avery, French cinema, and his place in the new Canon of American Animators.
II. "Best Of 2024 So Far" Recommendation I Am Loving This Week
I love Richard Brody- even when he's fantastically wrong (insert his THE ZONE OF INTEREST review here). But Richard is DEAD RIGHT about these three selections. Seek them out TODAY!
III. In Memoriam That Wrecked Me This Week: TCM Remembers Donald Sutherland
In a week that took both Shelley Duvall and Robert Towne (more to come on both of them soon), it was a most painful wound to come across this on Turner Classic Movies this week.
IV. New Trailer I Am Nerding Out To This Week
Behold the trailer for the film that sent the Cannes Film Festival into an ABSOLUTE FRENZY...this one will be a body-horror cult CLASSIC- put money on it. And welcome back, Demi.
#HellYeahDemi #CoralineFargeat #GrindhouseKubrick
V. Clip I Am Fondly Remembering This Week
I've been quite nostalgic for my old friend who would have turned 82 last week...and this off-the-cuff moment with him at my Central & East European Film Festival at CU Boulder STILL ranks among the best advice I have ever gotten. Miss you, my friend- this NEVER fails to make me laugh out loud.
AND REMEMBER: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT CINEMA!
The Boedecker Theater, Boulder’s art house cinema located at The Dairy Arts Center, continues to build on its reputation as one of the leading arts cinemas in the country. Noted for programming excellence as well as diversity, The Boe has introduced Boulder to national art house special features, premier movies as part of the New York Film Critics national screenings, live opera and ballet performances streamed from around the world, and has participated in 22 cinema partnerships. We feature talk-backs, special series and programs, and educational classes ALL for the love of cinema. Stop by and discover this gem for yourself.
That's all for this special edition. Get out there and watch something AMAZING this week!
Jack Hanley is a Boulder-based film scholar, podcaster, and critic. He is a programmer with the Chicago Underground Film Festival and Boulder International Film Festival. He is one-half of Blindspotting: A Film Discovery Podcast and Flicker with Jack and Scott on YouTube. Find him at Kinophilia on Medium and at HanleyOnFilm.com
