Los Angeles Festival of Movies: Animation Today
The Los Angeles Festival of Movies came to a close on Sunday. It's a festival I've heard of but hadn't attended before, which is a shame, because they always have great programming. It's just one of those fests that hasn't fit into my schedule in the past. I'm glad to say that this year, I made it over there to catch the Animation Today program, a series of six animated shorts from various countries that give a glimpse at the exciting things happening in animation. The theater was packed, and clearly very excited to see some cool new shorts. It was a great, enthusiastic crowd, the perfect setting for a nicely curated program. The buzziest title in the lineup was also up first: Don Hertzfeldt's Paper Trail , which premiered at Sundance and will likely be a festival mainstay for the rest of the year. I'm on the record as being a huge Hertzfeldt fan, and Paper Trail was one of my most anticipated movies of the year. It certainly lived up to my lofty expecta...
