The Don and Bill Show: Slightly Bent

Two titan animators drew crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown last weekend.

"...Bill is Bill Plympton, the older one, the one whose..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

I Married a Strange Person

"...Directed by: Bill Plympton. I wonder about Bill Plympton's childhood sometimes. Was..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tune

"...Directed by: Bill Plympton. If nothing else, we can thank MTV for..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

General Chaos: Uncensored Animation

"...As is becoming the rule of thumb, cel animator Bill Plympton steals the show with a new collection of..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch

'Adventures in Plymptoons!'

"...the mind. If this documentary about the Oscar-winning animator Bill Plympton had direction at some point it was lost..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The Animation Show

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt inaugurate a new annual series of animation collections.

"...Heidi Wittlinger's "The Rocks." Work from veterans such as Bill Plympton ("Parking"), Corky Quakenbush ("Ricardo Shorts"), and Aardman Studios’..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2002

"...some of the animation isn't top-notch. The festival debuts Bill Plympton's latest, the positively seductive “Eat,” a piece about..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation ’97

"...traditional cel animation. Most of these animators - including Bill Plympton, whose amiably gruesome “How to Make Love to..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mutant Aliens

"...Directed by: Bill Plympton. Starring: George Casden, Matthew Brown, Francine Lobis and..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

F*ck

Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.

"...Hunter S. Thompson, Miss Manners, Steven Bochco, Sam Donaldson, Bill Maher, Alan Keyes, Kevin Smith, Pat Boone, Ice-T, Alanis..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...Neck Joe" is an inexplicable perennial audience favorite, again), Bill Plympton, and the semilegendary Don Hertzfeldt, who’s currently debuting..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Brian Hicks, Scott Large; Cast: Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Bill Wise...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Game

"...The Complete Works of Bill Plympton..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

10 in Focus

Alma

"...and legal liabilities forestall any radical changes. The substitute, Bill Walmsley, is assigned six detention classes and becomes a..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2003

"...all over again, thank God, and Adam Robb's lunatic, Bill Plympton-inspired “Shh,” which argues that infants are in general..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Reviews

"...Mutant AliensD: Bill Plympton; with the voices of Dan McComas, Francine Lobis,..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...'Drunker Than a Skunk', the latest from cult animator Bill Plympton...."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...awesome book trailer for T Cooper's The Beaufort Diaries), Bill Plympton, Barry Jenkins, and many more. Also plenty of..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Screening Calls

What to see and when and where to see it at SXSW Film 04

"...www.sxsw.com/film. For information on the Life and Times of Bill Hicks panel on March 16, see the Arts feature..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature

Slightly Bent

"...Directed by: Don Hertzfeldt. and Bill Plympton. Slighty Bent is an aptly named collection of..."

Oct. 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Finally, something louder than a whisper for incentives, but it'll take a roar; plus, Bill Plympton, Texas on TV, and Dinesh Potluri

"...Austin-based DVFilm are walking on air at word that Bill Plympton's animated short "Guard Dog" is up for an..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

"Sick'-Figure Drawings: Spike & Mike's 2002 Fest

Spike & Mike are back with an even dirtier and more deviant show than ever before.

"...works from semilegendary Seattle "artiste" Tony Millionaire and from Bill Plympton's newest brainwarper "Eat" to Los Primos Productions' "Harry..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wrapped and Ready

"...D: Bill Condon; with Ian McKellan, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Animated film is based on Gibran's iconic book of prose poems

"...of Kells), Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues), and Bill Plympton (Idiots & Angels), and a few of the..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films

Five Oscar nominees, plus some extra treats.

"...a selection of four additional recommended animated shorts, including Bill Plympton’s “Footprints.”..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

One Letter Short for 'ABCs of Death 2'

25 director teams announced: Can you bring the mayhem for 'M'?

"...some real wild cards in here too: Animation icon Bill Plympton will be bringing his trademark pencils to the..."

Aug. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Head of the Class

Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation

"...from – we kid you not – the best Bill Plympton short ever made ("Santa: The Fascist Years," which..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Duplicity

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star in this new thriller about schemers and double-dealers.

"...effect has something of the comic grotesquerie of a Bill Plympton cartoon. It’s a sparky way to start a..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2009

The Academy gets animated.

"...off his axis by a meteorite; “Hot Dog” (by Bill Plympton of the U.S.), one of the well-known animator’s..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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