Short Films

Improv Olympic Creates a Comedy Festival That's...Scripted?

Over the weekend, Improv Olympic became a Scripted Olympic. From Thursday through Sunday, Hollywood's iO West Theater hosted its first annual L.A. Scripted Comedy Festival, featuring a collection of talent from across the country showcasing sketch, variety, storytelling, stand up and short films. ... More >>

Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2013: From a Simpsons Segment to a Woman Who Lives on the Ceiling

A Clockwork Orange at LACMA and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see: Thursday. Dec. 6 The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival continues this week, and tonight at Bellevarado Studios presents a tribute to Italian erotic filmmaker Tinto Brass, including his Vanessa Redgrave-starring La Vacanza.

Obamalogues

Alex Prager Is Photography's Queen Voyeur

Academy Awards: How to Game Your Office Pool

Karen O: Burrito Crooner

Karen O with her bandmates in The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.​ What do post-New Wave songstress Karen O, country crooner Willie Nelson and Chipotle burritos have in common? They've teamed up to promote awareness about the economic hardship that American family farmers face in an industrialized agricultu ... More >>

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Orpheum Theatre - 10-10-11

Timothy NorrisJoseph Gordon Levitt discussing the nature of love with Neil Patrick Harris​Joseph Gordon-Levitt hitRECord Fall Formal The Orpheum Theatre October 10, 2011 No one was really quite sure how this was going to work. All people could be sure of was that Joseph-Gordon Levitt had buil ... More >>

Brian Butler: Spell-Raiser

Hey, You With the Funny Shorts

Oscar Shorts: Brief Encounters

A showcase for Academy-anointed bite-size cinema

Shorts Attack!: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Open Projector Night

Flux Screening Series

Outfest: 'A Marine Story,' 'BearCity' and 'Strange Powers' Win Grand Jury Awards

The Magnetic Fields​Outfest, the gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles, announced its audience and grand jury award winners yesterday, with the films A Marine Story, BearCity, and Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields earning major nods. A Marine Story, directed by Ned ... More >>

Today in WTF: Here's Your Chance to Win a Mold of Peaches' Teeth!

Timothy NorrisPeaches is shocking (again)​ Ah, Peaches... Today the Canadian-by-way-of-Berlin shock-dance diva (and Beta version of the Lady Gaga product) is releasing a new short film through YouTube. Also, for some reason, she wants you to hype it on Twitter in exchange for a mold of her t ... More >>

Flux Screening Series

Hipstergasm!: Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire Working on Precious Short-Film Together

​MTV is reporting that popular-yet-monotonous pop group Arcade Fire and eccentric trust-fund-skater director Spike Jonze are collaborating on a secretive movie project (a "short film"). That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafa ... More >>

Food in Film: Oscar Nominations Announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category (big surprise), which has doubled in size to ten. As far as food movies go, Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for Julie & Julia, a ... More >>

Screening Oscar Nominated Wallace and Gromit "A Matter of Loaf and Death" with Filmmaker Nick Park

Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit​This morning, beloved British stop motion animation duo, Wallace and Gromit, received their fifth Oscar nomination from the Motion Picture Academy. Though the pair have already won four Oscars for the animated short films A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trouser ... More >>

YOU CAN'T SPELL LAUGH WITHOUT "L.A."! THAT WAS SO NOT FUNNY

Open Projector Night

Pet Hamster on a Bicycle Alert!

REVENGE OF THE COMEDY-FILM NERDS

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN BAD FILMS

Robert Todd Onscreen

THERE'S NO FUSION LIKE GAY FUSION

Special Back-to-School Social Studies Edition!

What to do in L.A., September 19-25

New York Minutes

The Final Frontier

Dances With Films: All Independent, All the Time

In its 11th year, fest stays true to its mission

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labs

Building a better screenwriter

2007 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Oscar's picks for good things in small packages

Short Attention Span Theater

We're Off to See the Lizard!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Motion Pictures

Dance Camera West celebrates ­cinematic choreography

The 2006 Academy Award–Nominated Shorts

The Essential Kieslowski

Viva la Raza and All That

The Reel Mr. Fish

Here I am today working on another short film for the Weekly, too busy to make a regular, unanimated cartoon.  Instead, you should look at THIS!

Oscar Documentary Shorts

I'm With Cupid

Jesus, You Know

Short Cuts

Does Size Really Matter

Dancing on Live Grenades

How David LaChapelle’s Rize beat the odds — and MTV — to bring us the ghetto art of krumping

Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

Heir of the Dogma

Group 101 goes global