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16 articles from 2009
Time Out’s Top 50 Animated Movies of All Time Curated by Terry Gilliam
7 October 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Time Out London has published a list of the 50 greatest animated feature films of all time curated by Terry Gilliam . I'm not sure if this means that Gilliam hand picked the titles on the list, or if the filmmaker was simply commenting on the list created by the TimeOut editors. Either way, you can find a listing of the top 20 entries below: 1. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki 2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) David Hand 3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) Chuck Jones and Phil Monroe 4. Fantasia (1940) 5. Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter 6. Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki 7. Yellow Submarine (1968) George Dunning 8. Belleville Rendez-vouz (2003) Sylvain Chomet 9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) Trey Parker 10. Robin Hood (1973) Wolfgang Reitherman 11. Bambi (1942) David Hand 12. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Isao Takahata 13. Dumbo (1941) Ben Sharpsteen 14. Gandahar (1988) René Laloux 15. The Iron Giant ... »
- Peter Sciretta
Friday Harvest: Antichrist, The Road, and more!
11 September 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy! Picture Gallery of the Week: The Illusionist Jacques Tati, one of the finest filmmakers of all time (and a personal favorite of mine) gets the animation treatment with the upcoming The Illusionist. Sylvain Chomet, who did sharp work with The Triplets of Belleville, is adapting an unreleased Tati script about an aging, increasingly irrelevant magician who has... »
The Week in Film: Stitchpunk, murder on ice and on campus, and hot new trailers
11 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Now that Ben Lyons has gotten the boot from At the Movies, we no longer need to yell, "You lie!" at our TV screens each week. And with summer behind us, let's see what's shaking this week on the big screen.
Opening on 9/9/09 was, of course, 9, a bleak but beautiful animated feature about doll-like creatures — they're already calling the style of this stop-motion animated feature "stitchpunk" — fighting for survival in a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape.
While the storyline didn't thrill me, I was taken by director Shane Acker's stunning visuals and by his ability to create distinct personalities for his lead characters (who all have names such as 9, 2 and 6).
He's helped greatly with the latter by a terrific cast of actors, including Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly and Crispin Glover. 9 is way, way too bleak and disturbing for little kids — who should totally see »
- ADuralde
New Images From Sylvain Chomet and Jacque Tati’s The Illusionist
9 September 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Creating a ‘traditionally animated’ feature, which is to say a film created by drawing 2D images rather than tweaking 3D models, either physically or virtually, is most definitely a very time consuming exercise (I take issue with the term ‘traditionally animated’ as I’m not sure what’s untraditional about the art of stop-motion). Unsurprising, then, that the last time I saw a new image from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist was literally years ago. Finally, a batch of gorgeous new images have surfaced, and you can see them all below the break. Chomet, if you don’t know the name, was the director of The Triplets of Belleville, aka Belleville Rendezvous, a French toon that made something of a splash back in 2003, not least by garnering effusive praise from some big cheeses at Pixar. Here are the four pictures, as freshly released by Pathe. You might recognise the likeness »
- Brendon Connelly
First Images for Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
9 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Further proof that Sylvain Chomet's 2D animated The Illusionist is close to being ready (if rushed it could have played at Tiff), the pic may be put on ice for a 2010 festival release, but slashfilm.com have found a first set of images (to add to this one). No North American distributor has picked up the rights yet. The pic is based on an unproduced screenplay by the late, great Jacques Tati, this see a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever. Themes deal with aging and disillusionment. With a Cannes 2010 premiere, the film will avoid a confrontation with this year's frontrunner: Pixar's Up. In 2003, Finding Nemo was favored over Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville for best animated picture. »
Class of 2010?: Love Ranch, The Concert, Biutiful, The Tempest and The Illusionist
13 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- With the final Gala and Special Presentation announcements for Tiff out of the way, and unless Telluride, BFI London and Rome reveal some major world premiere coups, we can expect to see new works from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Taylor Hackford, Géla Babluani, Radu Mihaileanu, Mark Ruffalo, Olivier Dahan, Julie Taymor, Sylvain Chomet only in 2010. Curiously, among the titles listed below, three of them happen to star Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren. Here are 9 must see titles of 2009 that we should end up seeing in 2010. * Biutiful It's being sold by Focus Features Intl. who will logically distribute the film domestically and while Focus have nothing on slate for December, Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest which stopped shooting sometime this summer, could logically be bumped until a Cannes premiere next summer. Prediction: Fall 2010 release. * The Concert This will receive a November 4th release in France and while The Weinstein Company own this »
Tiff 2009: The Road, Mother and Child and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done and maybe, The Illusionist?
13 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- World preems (Mother and Child, L’Affaire Farewell, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I, Don Giovanni), Venice titles (The Road, A Single Man, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Baaria) and a Telluride pic in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done are part of the Gala and Special Presentations and among the last batch of titles announced for the 2009 edition of the Toronto Film Festival. Today's press release (see here) should have confirmed that Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist as part of the festival, there is a brief mention the filmmaker's name, but we don't find his film listed in the 19 announced, but instead there is a mention that the previously announced Bruce Sweeney's Excited, is now a Special Presentation. Could the title have been removed at the last minute? Or is the omission - simple a mistake? More on this later. Among the titles, »
The 25 Most Anticipated Films for the Rest of 2009
15 July 2009 6:45 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
[1] Originally Posted in Creative Loafing [2]. 2009 is already halfway over, and the fall movie season (with all the originality and Oscar-bait it has to offer) is just around the corner. What follows is my list of the 25 films I'm most interested in seeing in the second half of 2009. Read all the way to the bottom for some honorable mentions and films that flat out didn't make the cut, despite the big-name talent behind the production. (I'm looking at you Scorsese and Apatow.) Then let me know in the comments what you're looking forward to seeing in the next six months. Read on for the my 25 most anticipated films of the rest of 2009. 25) Big Fan [3] (August 28) I know the Sundance hit wasn't praised for its production values, but The Wrestler scribe Robert D. Siegal looks like he has written another winner about a loser. Patton Oswalt [4]plays a very big New York Giants fan who, »
- Anthony Nicholas
Free Tickets For The Us Premiere of Brendan And The Secret Of Kells!
10 July 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
How impressed was I by Tomm Moore’s Brendan And The Secret Of Kells when I first saw it? Impressed enough that I said at the time that Moore deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Michel Ocelot (Kirikou And The Sorceress), Sylvain Chomet (Triplets Of Belleville) and - yes - even Hayao Miyazaki. This is one of those rare films that truly deserves the label of ‘instant classic’ and marks its creator as a fierce and unique talent. And now you can see for yourself.
The New York International Children’s Film Festival is about to host the Us premiere of the film with screenings at New York’s IFC Theater on July 18th and 19th and they’ve been good enough to offer one pair of tickets to each screening to you, the faithful Twitch reader. To throw your hat in the ring, simply with the »
- Todd Brown
Midway Point: Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2009: #2. The Illusionist
9 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- #2. The Illusionist Director: Sylvain Chomet Writer(s): Chomet and the late Jacques TatiProducers: Bob Last (exec-producer The House of Mirth)Distributor: Rights Available. The Gist: This is based on "a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.” Themes deal with aging and disillusionment. Fact: This is based on an unproduced screenplay by the late Jacques Tati. Why is it on the list?: I was charmed by Chomet's work in Triplets of Belleville and I'm even more charmed by the world that Tati created. Mon Oncle is easily in my top 100 films of all time. Release Date/Status?: The over 20 million dollar project should receive a nice competition slot in Venice with Pathe selling world rights in all territories. »
Looking Ahead: 2009 Venice Film Festival Line-Up Predictions
13 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- A sub-par edition of Cannes might signify a better than average year for the heads of the Venice and the Toronto Int. Film Festival. I'm sure Venice's Marco Müller and Tiff's Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey are already making some tough decisions as we speak. Since I'm already looking forward to the Fall movie going season and festival editions, I thought I would speculate on some of the titles that should be unveiled at these stalwart festivals. What I've done is narrowed down the titles making a list for both fests and keep in mind that, many films that end up in Venice also receive North American premieres at Tiff. Also worth mentioning, Telluride might even steal some thunder away from these titans – they usually grab a title or two from a Fox Searchlight-like distributor and flaunt the film before anyone else. The 66th Venice Film Festival should be »
Cannes 2009 Producer's Patch: Pathé Pictures International
13 May 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- When the official announcement was made for the line-up – I was disappointed that Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist did not appear in the lineup. It was wishful thinking on my part that international sales rep Pathe Pictures International would have the animated film here – when I know all to well that a post production “label” for an animated film means: it will take a bit longer. Nonetheless, Pathe brought Jane Campion's Bright Star to the main competition and buyers will have the opportunity to get in on early on Julian Schnabel's Miral (this should be competing in Cannes in 2010) and what should be a packed Market screening showing for Neil Marshall's latest, Centurion. Bright Star by Jane Campion - Completed Centurion by Neil Marshall - Production Cheri by Stephen Frears - Completed Cineman by Yann Moix - Post-Production Eden Is West (Eden Est A L'ouest) by »
Cannes 2009: What Today's List Tells Us Is...
23 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- One of the rare times where you'll find me up at 6 in the morning is when Cannes Film Festival selections are announced. A flurry of trades rushed to get the details out, I waited until the chaos was over for the full list (some (THR) had/have Jaco Van Dormael listed in the longlist). For the most part, it appears that the festival is combining the old auteurs (Resnais) along with the new (Andrea Arnold), and have once again come to help out & support a filmmaker such as Lou Ye, who was banned from filmmaking in China for a couple of years for having come to Cannes with the uncensored Summer Palace (2006). This year he brings Spring Fever - about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Here are some thoughts on some of the announcements. What Today's List Tells Us Is... that Atom Egoyan (Chloe), Michael Moore, Jean-Pierre Jeunet »
Antonini-esque Cannes Poster plus Our Cannes 2009 Predictions
22 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Cannes launched their new website (visit here) and a spanking brand new poster hours before the anticipated announcement of the films that will make up the 2009 edition. This year's one sheet (a banner that will litter the entire Croisette) is an homage to last year's dearly departed Michelangelo Antonioni and his masterwork l’Avventura. Created by Annick Durban, Cannes says this is “a mysterious female silhouette, caught in mid-movement, seems to be opening a window onto the magic of cinema and invites us into a dream…” See the poster after my predictions-jump. Cannes Predictions Variety, THR, Screen Daily and IndieWire have had an easier time in coming up with their predictions for the Cannes slate in a year where there is an influx of titles from returning main stays. We are looking at approximately 22 pictures to be held over for the main competition (not including the opener and closer »
Same Time Next Year, Serge Gainsbourg
15 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Following in the premieres of Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008), I'd be in disbelief if Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist (2009) doesn't follow the pattern and would be even more surprised if Cannes 2010 edition doesn't roll out the red carpet for Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque. The bio-flavored pic with surrealist elements has not been announced as an animated film, but I'm guessing there will be certain passages that will be animated by comic book writer and first time director of the picture Joann Sfar. The director/writer who like Gainsbourg comes from a Jewish heritage, cited that Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and Ernst Lubitsch's 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait were key influences for his approach with this film. Casting having been completed late in 08' (Lucy Gordon was cast as Jane Birkin, but there seems to be no mention of both singer's lovechild in Charlotte Gainsbourg »
What Goes 'Up' Must Come Down to Cannes
19 March 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- It won't be the auteur filmmakers such as the Wong Kar Wais or the Pedro Almodovars that will ceremoniously open the next edition of the Cannes Film Festival but rather, an animated, 3D film from the Pixar folks. Pete Docter's Up will screen for world critics a full two weeks before its theatrical release and as long as you keep away puffy mascots from the steps of the red carpet, I'm fine with that decision. Cannes has supported animated films, just last year it showcased the unique hybrid Waltz with Bashir, and this year we should expect to see Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist play out in the main comp. The picture is based on the late Jacques Tati's un-produced screenplay. Up sees Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, »
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