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John Dilworth

- Tuesday night, ASIFA-East hosted a spectacular evening devoted to John R. Dilworth and his work. It was a lot of fun thanks to the crazy combinations John pulled out of his bag o’ tricks. Lots of surprises and laughs.

I took a bunch of pictures and will post some of them Sunday, if I can find any that are in focus. The live intros and music were a wonderful dressing for the carefully chosen body of films. It was a well orchestrated program. Congrats to John.

- Disney’s Prep and Landing landed on ABC on Tuesday night. If like me, you were unable to catch it on it’s scheduled broadcast, you can watch it on HULU complete with commercial interruptions (though probably fewer than ABC aired.) My thoughts? It was ok, not worth all the puffery that came in advance of the show. All this cgi stuff to me is getting to look alike. Lots of running in place and shouting with nicely modeled everything to get that little doll look. I also think the current crop of stories going into our features and specials is lacking charm and movie magic. This filled that bill.

The NYTimes posted the latest Bob Dylan christmas song video – The Little Drummer Boy. Surprise, it’s an animated video done by my friend, Jeff Scher. The visuals are inventive, as expected, but I miss the Shay Lynch score.

Jeff wrote this little note in an email he sent me:
“I made a music video for Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album: “The Little Drummer Boy”.
It went up yesterday on Amazon… All profits from the album go to charity.

It was neat, the only direction I got was “do what you do”.
So this is what I did.”

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Here’s another reminder to those in New York that there will be a glorious celebration of UPA’s short films at the Academy of MP Arts & Sciences next Monday, Dec. 14th.

John Canemaker will host the event which will feature eight rarely seen films to be screened in 35mm. Many of them new prints.

The titles will include:
_____GERALD MCBOING BOING
_____MISTER MAGOO’S PUDDLE JUMPER
_____ROOTY TOOT TOOT
_____MADELINE
_____THE TELL-TALE HEART
_____THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN
_____FUDGET’S BUDGET
_____GEORGIE AND THE DRAGON

There are lots of Oscar winners and nominees among them. This show will be a treat.

At 7PM December 14, 2009 at the Lighthouse, 111 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington avenues
$5.00 admission ($3.00 for members)

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