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EARLY MAN — Nick Park Interview

February 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment

EARLY MAN — Nick Park Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview (14:20). Click here for the full review of EARLY MAN. Four-time Oscar-winner, Nick Park knew from a very early age that he was what he describes as a clay man. That’s something that came up towards the end of our talk on February 13, 2018, about his… Read More »

Tagged With: Aardman Animations, Bronze Age, cgi, Eddie Redmayne, football, French pomposity, Nick Park, Peter Sallis, Preston North End, Ray Harryhausen, soccer, Stone Age, stop-motion animation, Tom Hiddleston, Wallace and Gromit

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

August 19, 2016 By 1 Comment

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS continues Laika’s string of arresting, unconventional stop-motion animated films that are both sophisticated and enchanting. Like PARANORMAN and CORALINE, KUBO is audacious enough to tackle serious subjects and to do so with no pretense about the finality of death, or the reality of evil. Taking its cue from Joseph Campbell’s… Read More »

Tagged With: fairy tale, Japan, magic, orphan, samisen, stop-motion animation, suit of armor

SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

August 5, 2015 By 2 Comments

SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

Four decades ago there was a Monty Python sketch in which Graham Chapman and Terry Jones discussed why a flock of off-screen sheep were hopping about on their back legs, attempting (badly) to fly, and doing something in trees that appeared to be nesting. It appeared that they had been led to believe that they… Read More »

Tagged With: aardman, animation, Mark Burton, narrative, Richard Starzak, SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE, stop-motion animation

Peter Lord Sails Along with THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Peter Lord Sails Along with THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS

Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Studios, and one of the people responsible for bringing about the golden age of animation in which we live, is a man with a not unsurprisingly whimsical way of expressing himself.  When I spoke with him on April 10, 2012, there was no denying the whimsy, nor the passion he… Read More »

Tagged With: Aardman fire, Aardman Studio, book to screen, cgi, Charles Darwin, co-director, dodo, ham, Peter Lord, PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS, Queen Victoria, stop-motion animation

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