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A tribute to X. Atencio
…that time and so we did films like Jack And Old Mac, Noah’s Ark and Symposium On Popular Songs. Bill had done a lot of films and was a very… |
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Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry
…\\There It Is\\ have been added to the {{link http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2004.html National Film Registry}} according to the head of Library of Congress, James Billington. Each year the Librarian of Congress, advised… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
Chronicle Books has rightly forged a great reputation for their quality art books on Pixar films, showcasing developmental pieces from The Art of Monsters, Inc to Tim Hauser’s The Art… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…what appeared in the film The Dark Knight, though I don’t claim that the animated movie rivals The Dark Knight in terms of impact. A film I was prepared to… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…more often, but Jimmy Neutron is consistently inventive. Our hero is basically your average, run of the mill genius kid and the film has a lot of mileage in the… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…built by the MTR Corporation near the world famous Tian Tan Big Buddha. It’s one of two films produced for the attraction, each being housed in their own specialized theaters…. |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…the general public is a reason for its concentration on factuality, of course, but it still takes its time to make a point. Rumor (1956, 5:47), a “Challenge Film” going… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…to fall into several traps when writing them. Mr. Peabody and Sherman falls into three of them. First off, the film is very episodic. As the characters travel to different… |
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Rio 2
…(and hilariously) by Jemaine Clement and Kristin Chenoweth, was easily the highlight of the film. But the rest of the film is entirely frustrating, bordering on insulting. I know a… |
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Three Little Pigs added to National Film Registry
…year the Librarian of Congress, advised by the National Film Preservation Board, selects up to 25 films that are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant to be added to the Registry…. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…than they deserved!) were nothing particularly new, of course, even in the early 1990s. Movie history is strewn with films that underperformed at the American box office (and some of… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…though what really shines in those early films is Disney’s already strong attention to story and how those techniques gain more authority during the series’ short run. Sadly, Walt’s business… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…wind up featuring three actresses in the lead. When the Alice films had finally resorted to their cartoon character sidekicks out-populating the films rather than their nominal star, and had… |
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Toronto Film Fest Set to Premiere Wallace & Gromit
…Saskatchewan herritage, focusing on the “crumbling legacy of the Canadian farm.” The 30th Toronto International Film Festival is presented by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The text for this… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…done to that degree. And, of course, one of the main proponents was Russell Means. Now, I do have a funny story about Russell. When he came in to actually… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…fan, but he’s also a filmmaker. He knows what filmmakers go through. Having somebody like that in your corner has made all the difference in the world. SA: One of… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…he had studied at the prestigious Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Since 2005, they had worked on about four student films together and were ready for their first major collaboration, it… |
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Brave
Pixar films (and really just about every recent animated film in the past decade or two) have always been spectacular in scope, and epic in the journeys they take their… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…of course itself remade as a couple of vehicles for Eddie Murphy, but that pair of films threw out the charm of Lewis’ freewheeling effort and resorted to just running… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…like that. All from the 50s, 60s and even early 70s. So, we bought all these films and we had that library of films that we could go reference. Out… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…the film progress in any dramatic sense and only contributed to its overlong running time. What is nice is that the film resolves itself and mostly ties up the series’… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
…and his friend, Timothy Mouse, and “Pink Elephants on Parade,” which accompanies Dumbo’s feverish dream-sequence. Film Synopsis: In celebration of this landmark film’s 70th anniversary, experience the daring adventures of… |
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Good and bad news on the Last Unicorn live-action film
Ain’t It Cool News has a string of both good and bad news regarding the Last Unicorn live-action film. As it turns out, Continent Films recently paid $250,000 to go… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…the gangsters, Chuckie Sol, makes a run for it. He is confronted by a mysterious cloaked figure who tells him ‘[his] angel of death awaits.’ Chuckie tries to run over… |
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Maui Film Festival Animation Report – UPDATED
Animated News reporter Christian Ziebarth happened to be in Hawaii for the Maui Film Festival recently and has written about his experiences: After having not had a proper vacation in… |
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Jim Rygiel to direct Bunyan And Babe; first look at Igor
Exodus Film Group has tapped three-time Academy Award winner Jim Rygiel to make his directorial debut on the upcoming film, Bunyan and Babe. Set in modern times, Bunyan and Babe… |
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Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise
…a film, and to the studios trying to recut it at the last minute and make it a more, I guess, ‘straightforward’ kid film.” By the end of its 13-week… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…decade later, especially considering the rush we were in as we only had a few days to get everything up and running. But the story of how this site came… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…work-in-progress copy of the film and gave us a few suggestions. He seemed to like the film a lot. He was the best combination of brilliant storyteller and human I’ve… |
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Soul
2020 has been a tough year here on planet Earth. Disease is running rampant, we’re trapped in our homes most of the time, we can’t visit friends and family, and… |
