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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

March 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews have been friends and collaborators (L.I.P.S and LAKE MICHIGAN LAKE MONSTER) for a very long time. That, and their particular sense of humor is something that becomes apparent very quickly when speaking to them, as I did via Zoom on March… Read More »

Tagged With: Alton Brown, animation, beavers, black and white, Bob Barito, frostbite, frostbite. Kafka, green screen, John Tray, live-action, log flume, mascot suits, mascot-costume kung fu, Mysterious castles, no dialogue, NYU, snow, sound design, Tom Waits, Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE — Signe Baumane and Dagmara Diminczyk Interview

June 12, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE — Signe Baumane and Dagmara Diminczyk Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I have been looking forward to Signe Baumane’s next animated film ever since I saw last one, ROCKS IN MY POCKETS in 2014. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE was worth the wait, so was speaking with Baumane again along with Dagmara Diminczyk on June 6, 2022, The film follows… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, beautiful imperfection, Chekov, eastern European humor, female power, female rebellion, marriage, Poland

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

January 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA is a relentlessly obvious and overplayed exercise in draining the last dregs from a moribund franchise. Let me put it this way. Adam Sandler, not known for discriminating taste in projects, took a pass on this material that continues the saga of Drac, the vampiric proprietor of the titular establishment that caters… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, father-daughter, franchise, goofy human backpacker, monsters, mummy, sequel, South America, Transylvania, vampire

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

March 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE ON THE RUN

There has always been an archly hallucinogenic element to Spongebob Squarepants. I don’t mean the conceit of a sentient aggregate life form living in a pineapple under the sea. No, Spongebob has used it to tackle the existential from time to time while also being deliciously silly and being unapologetically full of heart. One need… Read More »

Tagged With: aggregate life form, animation, existential, greed, invertebrate, snail, snailnapping, zombie pirates

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

February 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

By the end of Rodney Ascher’s A GLITCH IN THE MATIX, you may well be questioning the definition of reality. That, of course, is part of his point. Bur far from a light-hearted romp about the fringe-ish theories that posit our living in a computer simulation, Ascher is interested in more than the Mandela Effect,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, animation, avatar, base reality, computer simulation, Elon Musk, GANS, Philip K. Dick, sensory deprivation, The Matrix, Third Eye

ABOMINABLE

September 29, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ABOMINABLE

ABOMINABLE is a sweet, if unremarkable, movie. With a plot that offers little in the way of novelty and characters who are as familiar to fans of contemporary animated films aimed at kiddies as Harlequin was to fans of the commedia dell’arte, it does boast some fine animation and a mythical creature that is undeniably… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, China, Himalayas, yeti

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

December 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Just when you thought the Spiderman franchise might have finally run its course of endless reboots comes SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, a film that that reinvigorates both animation and the super-hero origin story. Told in a wry, raucous style, it dares to explore complicated themes of family ties and personal responsibility while slyly poking fun… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, multiverse, origin story

2017 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival — Shira Dubrovner Interview

May 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

2017 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival — Shira Dubrovner Interview

Shira Dubrovner left behind a successful career in the film business to return to Mammoth Lakes and, eventually, to found the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, now in its third year (May 24-28) It was one of the things I asked her about when we spoke on May 18, 2017, but it wasn’t the first. That… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, Bodie, Dave McCoy, Director’s Lab West, eastern Sierras, film festival, ghost town, indie cartoons, indie film, John Sayles, legalization of marijuana, Mammoth Lakes, Paul Sbrizz, Sierra Spirit Award, The Bum Family, Tommy Chong, UP IN SMOKE

LONG WAY NORTH

December 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONG WAY NORTH

LONG WAY NORTH uses deceptively simple animation to tell an epic adventure.  At its center is Sasha (Christa Théret), a spirited and determined 15-year-old set on restoring her family’s honor, and the legacy her of her beloved grandfather, Oloukine (Féodor Atkine) an arctic explorer gone missing on his last expedition. It would be a monumental undertaking… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, arctic exploration, Féodor Atkine, heroine, Imperial Russia, navigation, potato peeling

FINDING DORY

June 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment

FINDING DORY

FINDING DORY, the eminently worthy sequel to 2003’s FINDING NEMO, is essentially one long chase. In this it shares much with last year’s blockbuster MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, including the sense that nothing is impossible, including testing the laws of physics to their limits, and a strong message of feminine empowerment, as exemplified by that… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, aquatic life, beluga whale, blue tang, chase, clownfish, marine biology, oceanography, octopus, pixar, sequel, underfish, whale shark

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