Film

Seniors in the Park Film Foreign Film Series Begins Wednesday, June 17th @ 12:30 PM

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/15/2015

The Seniors in the Park Best Foreign Film Series will begin Wednesday, June 17th @ 12:30 PM in the Starin Park Community Building. The films in the series will all be award-winning foreign features. This Wednesday’s showing will be Ida, director Pawel Pawlikowski‘s 2015 Oscar-winning account of “Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on…

Animation, Film

Sunday Animation: Flowers and Trees (1932)

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/14/2015

Film

Film: Trailer for The Martian

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/09/2015

An exciting trailer, for what looks to be a promising film.

Animation, Film, Nature

Skyglow

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/08/2015

A simulation of the night sky without light pollution —

Animation, Film

Sunday Animation: Opiuo – Quack Fat

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/07/2015

Opiuo – Quack Fat from Dropbear on Vimeo.

Film, Travel

Film: Tokyo Roar

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/02/2015

Tokyo Roar from Brandon Li on Vimeo.

Film, Travel

Sunday Film: Melodies for the Lemurs

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/31/2015

Red Bull – Melodies for the Lemurs (Full Length) from Patrik Wallner on Vimeo.

Film, Poverty

Film: Hotel 22

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/26/2015

‘In Silicon Valley, the region’s homeless use a 24-hour bus line as a shelter at night.’

Animation, Film

Sunday Animation: All Your Favorite Shows

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/24/2015

All Your Favorite Shows! from ornana on Vimeo.

Film, History

Film: Remembering Amache

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/19/2015

We were right to fight the war against Japan until our victory; it was nonetheless a profound error to place Americans of Japanese descent into camps during that war. See, also, Revisiting a World War II Internment Camp, as Others Try to Keep Its Story From Fading @ New York Times.

Cartoons & Comics, Film

Film: The History of the Marvel Comics Universe in 13 Minutes

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/12/2015

Marvel Comics films are enormously popular, earning billions – truly billions – at the box worldwide office. Here’s a video that explains the (often complicated and sometimes obscure) storyline behind the Marvel characters’ universe.

Animation, Art, Film

Sunday Film: A Crash Course in Internet Art

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/10/2015

Crash course internet art from Vera Tan Hoveling on Vimeo.

Film

Film: F for Fake

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/05/2015

Toward the end of his career, Orson Welles filmed F for Fake, about frauds of various kinds. The full movie is embedded below. One can’t say it’s his best film, but it is among the most intriguing films Welles or anyone else ever made. Odd, but captivating:

Animation, Film

Sunday Animation: Fears

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/03/2015

Not so scary after all… Fears from Nata Metlukh on Vimeo.