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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…was looking for. AV: How did you join the crew of the film? CV: I discovered Shane Acker’s short film at a time it was just a film on the… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…film in which all of the characters–with the exception of the villains–are ultimately sympathetic. Even the supposedly nasty Bergens, who wish to gobble up the film’s heroes, are only trying… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…a nice film, it makes your job easier as a composer. AV: What’s the spirit of the music of Wish Dragon? PK: None on the film really wanted us to… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…the Minimoys. The film has a couple of big problems. And they are almost enough to ruin the whole thing. Fortunately underneath it all is a pretty good movie trying… |
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Abominable
…the independent Pearl Studios and Culton was restored as the sole director of the film to be later re-titled Abominable. Now, the film is getting released after nine years in… |
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Shrek The Third
…warmed to the movie. Most of what I couldn’t initially get to grips with in the first film (which wanted to play around with fairy-tale film conventions while also being… |
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Strange Magic
…turning LucasFilm into its own studio, producing the Indiana Jones trilogy for Spielberg and such films in the mid-1980s as the extremely overlooked Tucker: The Man And His Dream for… |
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Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
…thrilling and rewarding, but then I’m a Capra fan too. Hardened cynics need not see this film. The film’s theme is that of faith. The obvious allusion is in regards… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…films moved away from the fluid and realistic approach that Disney and to an extent MGM and WB were trying to convey, and two subsequent Magoo films, When Magoo Flew… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…On Lightyear, it was like – how do we get practicality from NASA and fantasy into the film? Also, we used weather to show Buzz’s mood through the whole film…. |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…some critics hailing it a classic. Oddly enough, it was originally double-billed in Japan with the Ghibli film Grave Of The Fireflies, a devastating World War II film. This may… |
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Finding Dory
…learned in the first film into action is a nice follow-through. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two films is Finding Dory is extremely funny. Don’t get me wrong, Finding… |
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Beauty and the Beast
…run and was mesmerized by the wonderful performance. So it was a no-brainer that I was going to see the live-action feature film adaption the second Disney announced it. Disney… |
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Mia And The Migoo
…International Children’s Film Festival years ago, they branched out in 2008 as distributors of foreign films to theaters across the country. This has resulted in American audiences for Azur &… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…of particularly great assistence in understanding the true meaning of the film as a whole. Musical Character(s) As with any aspect of the film, Pinocchio‘s music is a team effort:… |
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Back In Time
Gravitas Ventures/Back In Time Films (October 21 2015), Filmrise/MVD (September 13 2016), single DVD, 94 mins, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $19.99 Storyboard: The cast, crew… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…director on a number of Pixar films, including Academy Award®-winning Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, WALL•E, Brave, and Soul, as well as the short films One Man Band, Lifted, and the Academy… |
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WALL-E
…still more that makes WALL-E unique, even among Pixar’s other films. First off is an uncommon problem necessitated by the story. By making the protagonists of the film robots who… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…when it came time for us to first work together on a film, working out what we could do for the film with the budget we had, we said we… |
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The BFG
…score that doesn’t help this film feel any brighter. Another longtime associate, cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, shoots the film with that warm and stagelike War Horse glow, but ultimately there’s nothing… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…feature film to have been selected at Annecy since the International Animated Film Festival’s creation in 1960, making its win even more impressive. It is the first animated film aimed… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…two Rugrats movies) keeping things well paced. The overall story may be slighter and more child-friendly than the more densely packed plots of some animated films, and some of the… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…3, and Cars 2 and a filmmaker well versed in the collaborative nature of film production, but at the same time he’s an acclaimed songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer for… |
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A Scanner Darkly
…(Paycheck, Total Recall— though they had their moments), would audiences finally see a film based on a Dick film that was both faithful and good? Depending on what critic you… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…area to be in. Having all this movie industry in this small town, we got to have a film festival actually go through our school. So, they started playing films… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…shocked discussion between the evil faction? Sure, she seems to have relaxed her rules of appearance as of the second film, but we’re not counting that here, it seems, since… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…with visual effects people? FW: Integration of VFX and built elements is the real fun of film making I think. The very first films all employed visual tricks to heighten… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…want the film to have a genuinely felt Parisian flavor, but knowing that it would be made mostly by Americans in the USA. One of my favorite Disney films is… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…forgettable films alive with its popular Minions: The Rise Of Gru, which smoked the nearest animated competition at this year’s box office, over three to one! Other big studio films… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…real world and his dream land. Secondly, and also in a bid to present the film on the international stage, Vink and Hooft have devised their film as a complete… |
