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Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Monday, January 02, 2017

Winter 2016: Nocturnal Ocean Beasts

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Here are some comments on some of the films I've been seeing this month. I don't have the heart or fortitude for my usual jeremiads...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Myths, Stories, and Songs

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Song of the Sea (2014, directed by Tomm Moore) expands on the design aesthetic of Moore's The Secret of Kells , while diving even deep...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Revenge of the Nerds

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Big Hero 6 (2014, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams) is suggestive of why Disney bought Marvel a few years ago. They see potential b...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Not Your Disney Princess

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It's a shame that the supernova of Hayao Miyazaki has sometimes blinded the world to the fact that there's another genius working a...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Ashes in the Wind

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It's a given that Hayao Miyazaki's new film, The Wind Rises (2013) is beautifully made. Studio Ghibli is synonymous with beautiful...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Hearts of Ice

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Frozen (2013, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) finds Disney's animation unit making some sport of its own traditions. In doing...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

The Old College Try

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The short subject before Monsters University (2013, directed by Dan Scanlon), Pixar/Disney's new prequel to Monsters, Inc . wasn't...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Mothers and Daughters

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Pixar's new film, Brave (2012, directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Purcell) is their first with a female protagonist. ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Festival Finds #1

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The Girl and the Fox from Base14 on Vimeo . I was a film festival screener last year (and probably will be again this year). One of the...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Lovely Rita

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If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. -- Emma Goldman For a movie set in Cuba in large part during the 1950...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Playtime

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My initial impression of Toy Story 3 (2010, directed by Lee Unkrich) was that it was more melancholy and not as funny as the previous entri...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Life of Illusions

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I loved Sylvain Chomet's first feature, The Triplets of Belleville . I thought it was one of the rare movies that fulfills the promise o...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Whiskey's for Drinking, Water's for Fighting

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At the end of Rango (2010, directed by Gore Verbinski), my moviegoing companion turned to me and asked: "How much of that did I miss b...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

Hair Tonic

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A couple of weeks ago, I ran across this tutorial on facial expression in animation and cartooning, which featured this piece of informati...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

One Froggy Evening

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I really wanted to like The Princess and the Frog (2009, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker), Disney's return to hand-drawn 2-D a...
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