Spike Jonze Vs Matt Groening
Spitting from the heftier corner, Groening’d surely have no trouble with scrawny Jonze in a wrestling ring. When it comes to the screen though, both have recent hands in promoting Al Gore: Spike ( directing in Melbourne soon) with a video-portrait of the ex US Vice President published in Wholpin, a quarterly DVD compiled by McSweeney’s Journal, Matt with an animated promo for Al Gore’s film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth*, featuring Futurama’s beer swilling robot, Bender:
*Screening at MIFF, July 30, Aug 5
