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Feature Trailer For Adam Elliot’s Mary And Max
23 October 2009 12:21 PM, PDT
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Boy, oh boy, do I love me some stop-motion animation. Be it “Creature Comforts,” “Coraline,” or even, God help me, “Monkeybone,” I’m always down for some meticulously-crafted, old-fashioned storytelling. While mindlessly digging through content over at Trailer Addict, I happened upon a preview for “Harvie Krumpet” director Adam Elliot’s engaging effort “Mary and Max,” a movie which seems to blend the snazziest elements of Henry Selick and Nick Park into one charming little picture. I haven’t seen a Region 1 DVD release date yet, though I strongly suspect it should be coming down the proverbial pipeline pretty soon, as it’s already been unleashed in other territories. However, according to the official website, “Mary and Max” is screening on Sundance Selects throughout USA – via Brighthouse, Cablevision, Comcast, Fox, and Time Warner – as of 14 October 2009.
For those interested parties, an official synopsis:
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max
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134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy
1 July 2009 1:08 AM, PDT
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Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members.
"These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks."
The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's
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- Brad Brevet
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Worth Seeing: Coraline
6 February 2009 1:24 AM, PST
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Coraline is just the kind of kids' movie I like. It's totally F'ed up and freaky. It'll scare the crap out of them as well it should. Something's gotta toughen them up.
Review: Coraline
It's finally the first real Henry Selick movie. Nightmare Before Christmas was executing someone's vision, a fine accomplishment at that. James and the Giant Peach was a 30 minute short smushed in between repulsive live-action segments. Monkeybone was a mix of things but this is a full-length stop motion animated movie from start to finish by Selick. An adaptation, yes, but it's Selick's adaptation.
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Interview: The Other World of Animation With ‘Coraline’ Director Henry Selick
4 February 2009 12:01 PM, PST
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Chicago – The limitations of the medium of animation are defined by the people who make it. As Henry Selick, the director of the upcoming and ground-breaking “Coraline” says, “Animation can be so much more than it is usually allowed to be.” Selick recently sat down with HollywoodChicago.com to discuss his new movie, the world of 3D film, and the legacy of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
“Coraline,” opening this Friday, February 6th, 2009. is a 3D, stop-motion, fantasy film based on a book by Neil Gaiman. Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, and Dawn French provide the voices for this fascinating story about a girl who discovers a secret door to the “Other World”.
Henry Selick, Director/Writer of the new stop-motion animated 3-D adventure Coraline, from Laika Entertainment for release by Focus Features.
Photo credit: Laika Entertainment/Focus Features
Like his work on “The Nightmare Before Christmas,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Interview: Henry Selick on "Coraline"
4 February 2009 8:08 AM, PST
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By Aaron Hillis
A puppet is posed, the camera clicks a frame, then an ever so slightly different pose, and another click. Creating stop-motion animation must be one of the most painstaking artistic processes of filmmaking, and yet the visionary work of director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach") is so seamless that you'd think it just comes easy to him. With "Coraline," based upon the best-selling novella by Neil Gaiman, Selick was in production for 18 months (following another two years of pre-production) on the first stop-motion animated film ever to be photographed in 3D -- a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy of adventurous youth and parallel realities. After her family relocates to an eerie country manor, 11-year-old Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret passage to another world that looks exactly her own, except every meal tastes like a decadent banquet, parades of mice perform
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GeekBomb: A Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation
4 February 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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Editor’s Note: This is the debut post by Kevin Kelly, who will be offering his expertise in geekdom in a new /Film daily blog feature called GeekBomb. Welcome Kevin to /Film!
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline opens this weekend, and it’s directed by Henry Selick, one of the few modern masters of stop-motion animation. Although he was trained as a traditional animator, he really came to fame with stop-motion, having directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Monkeybone. In the day and age of everything being whipped up in CGI, it’s really a testament to see people work in a medium that requires hours of tedious work on films that can take an extremely long time to produce. Which is why the Sundance opening night film Mary & Max was such a treat.
Whenever someone mentions stop-motion, most people tend to think of one of the above movies,
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- Kevin Kelly
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