Andy's Film Blog

Just as he has been drawn to epic, quixotic projects, in his extended career Werner Herzog has also favored short form storytelling, the ...

Stutterer , one of this year's Live Action Short nominees West Bank religious tensions. Ethnic Cleansing. Child endangerment and ...

cel from Prologue This year's animated short program, always a fun little excursion despite the quality of its content, runs the ga...

In the opening round of the 2001 Wimbledon Championships the world witnessed a grueling weeklong tennis bout between a bad boy fallen ido...

From One Second to the Next  is a 35 minute anti-texting public service announcement which I watched solely because it was crafted by Wer...

In Monstropolis, creatures of all shapes and sizes dwell in a city powered by screams and the top scream earner/mega-celebrity is James P...

A Parisian shop owner takes his wife, daughter, and apprentice (who is betrothed to his daughter) for an idyllic countryside respite wher...

"Un Chien Andalou" was the brainchild of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel and artist Salvador Dali and is the highly influential ...

This year the Oscar nominated shorts left town almost as quickly as they came in, and I was only able to catch the animated program whi...

Recorded in late 1969 as part of the Let It Bleed tour, The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya Ya's Out has gone on to be heralded as one...

Three brothers (Owen Wilson, ), all reeling in their own way following the death of their father, meet in India and embark on an expansiv...

The defiantly independent princess to a newfound Scottish dynasty resists her mothers instructions to chose a suitor from one of the othe...

In postwar bombed out Paris, a man haunted by a childhood vision of a woman is imprisoned, experimented on, and sent to time travel with ...

The crew of a German U-boat is stranded in Hudson Bay and begins to terrorize its way to the still neutral U.S.A. From fur trappers, to a...

"Strikes and Spares" is an Oscar nominated short from 1934 that features top professional bowler Andy Varipapa demonstrating pr...

I came across a short film from Errol Morris recently entitled "El Wingador" and was once again taken by the idiosyncratic docu...

As Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City to don his vigilante, crime fighting alter ego, police lieutenant Jim Gordon takes a job on the force ...

One of things I appreciate most each year about the Academy Awards are the Shorts Programs and the opportunity to see this seldom seen an...

Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" is a 12 minute simple tale of the title thievery and the pursual of the gang by a ...

Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (a muppet) have been inseparable best friends for their entire lives, and two of the biggest Muppets fans in t...