Twenty-five years ago, the first episode of The Simpsons aired in the Sunday, 8 p.m., time slot that the show still occupies today and has for most of its quarter-century run. In the past 25 years, the show has generated laughs, riffed on countless pop culture sources, and even introduced whole words to our language. However, The Simpsons has also had more tender, human moments than one might expect from a show starring cartoons with massive overbites. Check out 25 moments when the show reminded us that there's some genuine heart beneath all that yellow. 1. 'And Maggie Makes Three'In a flashback, Homer...
- 1/15/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Twenty-five years ago, the first episode of The Simpsons aired in the Sunday, 8 p.m., time slot that the show still occupies today and has for most of its quarter-century run. In the past 25 years, the show has generated laughs, riffed on countless pop culture sources, and even introduced whole words to our language.
However, The Simpsons has also had more tender, human moments than one might expect from a show starring cartoons with massive overbites. Check out 25 moments when the show reminded us that there's some genuine heart beneath all that yellow.
1. 'And Maggie Makes Three'In a flashback, Homer...
However, The Simpsons has also had more tender, human moments than one might expect from a show starring cartoons with massive overbites. Check out 25 moments when the show reminded us that there's some genuine heart beneath all that yellow.
1. 'And Maggie Makes Three'In a flashback, Homer...
- 1/14/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- People.com - TV Watch
This September, "The Simpsons" will officially hit Season 25, making it an even quarter-century for the longest-running primetime animated show in television history. (It still has a few years to catch the 635 episodes of "Gunsmoke.")
Emmy-winning animator David Silverman has been with the show since the beginning, even before the beloved TV family had their own timeslot, when they were just a weekly segment on "The Tracey Ullman Show." In the years since, he's acted as a consulting producer, title designer, storyboard artist, "Spider Pig" lyricist, and directed episodes from Season 1 to the upcoming Season 25, along with the show's feature-length movie and Oscar-nominated short film. So, basically, we wouldn't want to be up against him on "Simpsons" Trivia Night.
With Silverman being honored as the keynote speaker at the second annual Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, HuffPost Canada TV spoke with the prolific animator about the show's early days, the origins...
Emmy-winning animator David Silverman has been with the show since the beginning, even before the beloved TV family had their own timeslot, when they were just a weekly segment on "The Tracey Ullman Show." In the years since, he's acted as a consulting producer, title designer, storyboard artist, "Spider Pig" lyricist, and directed episodes from Season 1 to the upcoming Season 25, along with the show's feature-length movie and Oscar-nominated short film. So, basically, we wouldn't want to be up against him on "Simpsons" Trivia Night.
With Silverman being honored as the keynote speaker at the second annual Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, HuffPost Canada TV spoke with the prolific animator about the show's early days, the origins...
- 7/25/2013
- by Rick Mele
- Huffington Post
The avant-garde director's new film is a woozy homage to Homer and gangster movies. He explains his vision
Even with a new film to sell, Guy Maddin is not your standard-issue eager-to-please director. "So many people are baffled," he says, with well-practised irony. "The movie will be crystal-clear upon your third viewing." This is Keyhole, Maddin's ninth full-length film since 1988; and against all the odds it's secured a theatrical release in the UK. Most of Maddin's work simply doesn't get to Britain, so resolutely has he followed his own path.
If you know him at all, it is probably for his ballet film Dracula: Pages from a Virgin Diary, or just possibly My Winnipeg, his heartfelt docu-essay tribute to his Canadian hometown. More energetic cineastes may remember 2003's The Saddest Music in the World, Maddin's most determined shot at the mainstream, an elaborate parody musical starring Isabella Rossellini. The...
Even with a new film to sell, Guy Maddin is not your standard-issue eager-to-please director. "So many people are baffled," he says, with well-practised irony. "The movie will be crystal-clear upon your third viewing." This is Keyhole, Maddin's ninth full-length film since 1988; and against all the odds it's secured a theatrical release in the UK. Most of Maddin's work simply doesn't get to Britain, so resolutely has he followed his own path.
If you know him at all, it is probably for his ballet film Dracula: Pages from a Virgin Diary, or just possibly My Winnipeg, his heartfelt docu-essay tribute to his Canadian hometown. More energetic cineastes may remember 2003's The Saddest Music in the World, Maddin's most determined shot at the mainstream, an elaborate parody musical starring Isabella Rossellini. The...
- 8/30/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
[Update: New trailer added with English subs!]
Back in July of 2008, we showed the first teaser for this incredible looking Croatian film which is set in a "mythical time and space, with contemporary influences and attitudes". We also talked about the couture being heavily influenced by Japanese fashion.. and I still don't know where it is.
Penelope, the mythical character from Homer's The Odyssey, is waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. She waits for twenty years. Penelope wanders alone through her enormous castle, often in a dreamlike state, each room a different memory. In these rooms she has visions of her husband, and memories of happier times together. In heavy contrast twenty revolting suitors sit at the dining table as a constant reminder of the present, forever eating, drinking, snoring and swearing. They are growing restless of waiting for Penelope to make a decision as to which of them she shall marry.
Back in July of 2008, we showed the first teaser for this incredible looking Croatian film which is set in a "mythical time and space, with contemporary influences and attitudes". We also talked about the couture being heavily influenced by Japanese fashion.. and I still don't know where it is.
Penelope, the mythical character from Homer's The Odyssey, is waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. She waits for twenty years. Penelope wanders alone through her enormous castle, often in a dreamlike state, each room a different memory. In these rooms she has visions of her husband, and memories of happier times together. In heavy contrast twenty revolting suitors sit at the dining table as a constant reminder of the present, forever eating, drinking, snoring and swearing. They are growing restless of waiting for Penelope to make a decision as to which of them she shall marry.
- 9/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
It's been a busy couple of days for Brad Pitt. In addition to working on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in Germany (and here's the photographic evidence), Pitt has inked two deals to wrap up the week, and they couldn't look more different.
The first film is an adaptation of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, and Variety reports that Pitt would be in line to play Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, who is one of the smartest guys in sports. Because the A's don't have the advantages of the Red Sox, Yankees, and Angels in a sport with no salary cap, Beane developed his own way of doing business and creating a team. It hasn't worked every year, but Oakland has been fairly consistent over the past ten years.
Steve Zaillian will write the script, and he's done that once or twice, and David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada...
The first film is an adaptation of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, and Variety reports that Pitt would be in line to play Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, who is one of the smartest guys in sports. Because the A's don't have the advantages of the Red Sox, Yankees, and Angels in a sport with no salary cap, Beane developed his own way of doing business and creating a team. It hasn't worked every year, but Oakland has been fairly consistent over the past ten years.
Steve Zaillian will write the script, and he's done that once or twice, and David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada...
- 10/18/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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