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The National Film Board of Canada has named Suzanne Guèvremont as its new chair and government film commissioner.
She replaces Claude Joli-Coeur, who led Canada’s publicly funded filmmaker for nearly nine years and officially left his post on Friday.
Nfb productions and co-productions have earned 78 Oscar nominations and won the big prize 12 times, including for the short animation film The Danish Poet by director Torill Kove in 2006 and the animated short Ryan by Chris Landreth in 2004.
The Nfb received a 1988 honorary Academy Award for overall excellence in cinema. Early Oscars picked up by pioneering Nfb directors include Stuart Legg earning the best documentary short for Churchill’s Island in 1941 and Norman McLaren winning for Neighbors, also in the best documentary short category, in 1952.
Guèvremont starts her five-year term at the Nfb on Nov. 28. As a veteran producer of 3D animation, video games and visual effects in Quebec,...
The National Film Board of Canada has named Suzanne Guèvremont as its new chair and government film commissioner.
She replaces Claude Joli-Coeur, who led Canada’s publicly funded filmmaker for nearly nine years and officially left his post on Friday.
Nfb productions and co-productions have earned 78 Oscar nominations and won the big prize 12 times, including for the short animation film The Danish Poet by director Torill Kove in 2006 and the animated short Ryan by Chris Landreth in 2004.
The Nfb received a 1988 honorary Academy Award for overall excellence in cinema. Early Oscars picked up by pioneering Nfb directors include Stuart Legg earning the best documentary short for Churchill’s Island in 1941 and Norman McLaren winning for Neighbors, also in the best documentary short category, in 1952.
Guèvremont starts her five-year term at the Nfb on Nov. 28. As a veteran producer of 3D animation, video games and visual effects in Quebec,...
- 11/25/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gerald Potterton, the London-born filmmaker and animator who directed the 1981 animated cult favorite Heavy Metal and contributed to the memorable “Liverpool” sequence in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died today at a Quebec hospital. He was 91.
His death was announced by the National Film Board of Canada. No cause was stated.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project,” said Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner, in a statement. “He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions…He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man.”
Potterton had graduated from London’s Hammersmith Art School when he moved to Canada in 1954, working with the Nfb before directing his own notable animated shorts in the early ’60s.
His death was announced by the National Film Board of Canada. No cause was stated.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project,” said Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner, in a statement. “He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions…He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man.”
Potterton had graduated from London’s Hammersmith Art School when he moved to Canada in 1954, working with the Nfb before directing his own notable animated shorts in the early ’60s.
- 8/24/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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Gerald Potterton, the British-Canadian filmmaker who directed the adult animated cult classic Heavy Metal in 1981 for Columbia Pictures, has died. He was 91.
Potterton passed away at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada said on Wednesday.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project. He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions… He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man,” Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb chairperson and government film commissioner, said in a statement.
Born on March 8, 1931 in London, England, Potterton graduated from the Hammersmith Art School and emigrated to Canada in 1954 to work alongside the pioneers of Nfb animation.
Gerald Potterton, the British-Canadian filmmaker who directed the adult animated cult classic Heavy Metal in 1981 for Columbia Pictures, has died. He was 91.
Potterton passed away at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada said on Wednesday.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project. He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions… He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man,” Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb chairperson and government film commissioner, said in a statement.
Born on March 8, 1931 in London, England, Potterton graduated from the Hammersmith Art School and emigrated to Canada in 1954 to work alongside the pioneers of Nfb animation.
- 8/24/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This short from pioneering Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren is a playful pick-me-up that beautifully showcases his skills at synchronising animation with music.
The images themselves have been literally scratched into the film stock, giving the film a textural quality reminiscent of those drawings we all did in school where you would put colourful wax crayons on an underlayer and then cover it with black before scratching through to create a surprisingly vibrant image. McLaren's animation is equally vibrant and is not so much in a dialogue with Maurice Blackman's jazzy score as it is a quirky game of tag.
As instruments give a blast of sound, the screen briefly springs to life with images. Some are simple flashes of animated sparks, while others become more recognisable, so that a tale of bird - or at least the hint of a bird - gradually takes constantly moving shape. These may be simple.
The images themselves have been literally scratched into the film stock, giving the film a textural quality reminiscent of those drawings we all did in school where you would put colourful wax crayons on an underlayer and then cover it with black before scratching through to create a surprisingly vibrant image. McLaren's animation is equally vibrant and is not so much in a dialogue with Maurice Blackman's jazzy score as it is a quirky game of tag.
As instruments give a blast of sound, the screen briefly springs to life with images. Some are simple flashes of animated sparks, while others become more recognisable, so that a tale of bird - or at least the hint of a bird - gradually takes constantly moving shape. These may be simple.
- 5/13/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While the summer movie season will kick off shortly––and we’ll be sharing a comprehensive preview on the arthouse, foreign, indie, and (few) studio films worth checking out––on the streaming side, The Criterion Channel and Mubi have unveiled their May 2021 lineups and there’s a treasure trove of highlights to dive into.
Timed with Satyajit Ray’s centenary, The Criterion Channel will have a retrospective of the Indian master, along with series on Gena Rowlands, Robert Ryan, Mitchell Leisen, Michael Almereyda, Josephine Decker, and more. In terms of recent releases, they’ll also feature Fire Will Come, The Booksellers, and the new restoration of Tom Noonan’s directorial debut What Happened Was….
On Mubi, in anticipation of Undine, they’ll feature two essential early features by Christian Petzold, Jerichow and The State That I Am In, along with his 1990 short documentary Süden. Also amongst the lineup is Sophy Romvari’s Still Processing,...
Timed with Satyajit Ray’s centenary, The Criterion Channel will have a retrospective of the Indian master, along with series on Gena Rowlands, Robert Ryan, Mitchell Leisen, Michael Almereyda, Josephine Decker, and more. In terms of recent releases, they’ll also feature Fire Will Come, The Booksellers, and the new restoration of Tom Noonan’s directorial debut What Happened Was….
On Mubi, in anticipation of Undine, they’ll feature two essential early features by Christian Petzold, Jerichow and The State That I Am In, along with his 1990 short documentary Süden. Also amongst the lineup is Sophy Romvari’s Still Processing,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
From "Modern Lusts," Berghahn 2020, 340PPErnest Borneman not only wrote the greatest detective novel set in the movie-business, with one of the best titles, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937), but was also a screenwriter, editor, producer, distributor and director who worked closely with two cinema colossi, John Grierson and Orson Welles. He was also a painter, musician, revered jazz critic and historian of African-American life, a radical agitator and sexologist whose stated aim was to destroy the patriarchy. Modern Lusts, the first biography of this protean polymath, reveals a man who did everything, knew everyone, and remained in the forefront of avant-garde art and politics, Black liberation and sexual freedom, like some ultra-woke Zelig. Never in the field of human culture was so much done, so many met, now known to so few.Born in Berlin in 1915, Borneman attended Karl Marx school and by 15 had met Brecht, with whom he collaborated over the decades,...
- 12/23/2020
- MUBI
Grant Munro, the animator and actor behind Neighbors, the 1953 best short film Oscar winner, and the 1963 Oscar-nominated cartoon Christmas Cracker, a collaboration with Norman McLaren, has died. He was 94.
Munro died Saturday in Montreal after an unspecified illness, the National Film Board of Canada, the country's public filmmaker, said Monday. He directed, edited and acted in some of the most classic hand-drawn and pixilated animation the Nfb has produced.
Born in Winnipeg on April 25, 1923, Munro collaborated with McLaren, a fellow Canadian animation legend, during a career at the Nfb that stretched from 1944-1988. He coined...
Munro died Saturday in Montreal after an unspecified illness, the National Film Board of Canada, the country's public filmmaker, said Monday. He directed, edited and acted in some of the most classic hand-drawn and pixilated animation the Nfb has produced.
Born in Winnipeg on April 25, 1923, Munro collaborated with McLaren, a fellow Canadian animation legend, during a career at the Nfb that stretched from 1944-1988. He coined...
- 12/11/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Class-act director John Boorman continues to mix genre grit with European-flavored art cinema, and the result is another winner. Toshiro Mifune and Lee Marvin fight a miniature two-man war when they’re marooned together on the same tiny island. Boorman’s strong direction and Conrad Hall’s knockout cinematography insure a maximum visual impact; it’s great filmmaking all around.
Hell in the Pacific
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1968 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
Cinematography: Conrad Hall
Art Direction: Anthony Pratt, Masao Yamazaki
Film Editor: Thomas Stanford
Original Music: Lalo Schifrin
Written by Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici story by Reuben Bercovitch
Produced by Reuben Bercovitch, Henry G. Saperstein, Selig J. Seligman
Directed by John Boorman
Former TV director and producer John Boorman barely survived a first feature with the Dave Clark Five, imitating Richard Lester’s success with the Beatles.
Hell in the Pacific
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1968 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
Cinematography: Conrad Hall
Art Direction: Anthony Pratt, Masao Yamazaki
Film Editor: Thomas Stanford
Original Music: Lalo Schifrin
Written by Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici story by Reuben Bercovitch
Produced by Reuben Bercovitch, Henry G. Saperstein, Selig J. Seligman
Directed by John Boorman
Former TV director and producer John Boorman barely survived a first feature with the Dave Clark Five, imitating Richard Lester’s success with the Beatles.
- 6/27/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
It’s an art film boom time in New York City. With more and more theaters cropping up than one could try and name off the top of their heads, citizens of The Big Apple have everything from the retrospective-centric programming of The Metrograph to their very own Alamo Drafthouse to give their money to in hopes of making a great cinematic discovery. However, don’t forget the museum scene.
As we make our way through the month of May, The Museum of Modern Art has scheduled two fantastic retrospective series, running back to back, that couldn’t be more different. Looking at the worlds of pre-Code Hollywood and African animation, May at MoMA is one of the most interesting repertory lineups seen yet this year.
Running May 5-16, MoMA follows-up their beloved 2016 series Universal Pictures: Restorations and Rediscoveries, 1928-1937 with a return to the studio, this time looking...
As we make our way through the month of May, The Museum of Modern Art has scheduled two fantastic retrospective series, running back to back, that couldn’t be more different. Looking at the worlds of pre-Code Hollywood and African animation, May at MoMA is one of the most interesting repertory lineups seen yet this year.
Running May 5-16, MoMA follows-up their beloved 2016 series Universal Pictures: Restorations and Rediscoveries, 1928-1937 with a return to the studio, this time looking...
- 5/8/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Strand will focus on the history of Cannes for the festival’s 70th anniversary.
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
While Cannes Film Festival premieres some of the best new films of the year, they also have a rich history of highlighting cinema history with their Cannes Classics line-up, many of which are new restorations of films that previously premiered at the festival. This year they are taking that idea further, featuring 16 films that made history at the festival, along with a handful of others, and five new documentaries. So, if you can’t make it to Cannes, to get a sense of restorations that may come to your city (or on Blu-ray) in the coming months/years, check out the line-up below.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
- 5/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ascending Leaders 1. Courtesy the artist and Tiff Bell LightboxWhether opting for the institutional designation “time-based media” or the more colloquial “movies,” the art of cinema can seem antithetical to any suspended moment or image. This in spite the fact that we’re typically watching 24 (or 25) still frames pour before our eyes every second. Since his early years as a student at Ontario’s Sheridan College, alongside fellow luminaries of the since-dubbed “Escarpment School,” artist and filmmaker Richard Kerr has routinely pursued an interest in the material elements of celluloid film. In addition to his prolific work in experimental shorts and features, and an extensive teaching background at Concordia University in Montreal, Kerr has quietly been producing what he calls Motion Picture Weavings since the early 1990s, lightboxes displaying 35mm and 65mm IMAX film strips arranged into unique patterns.Postindustrial, on view at the Tiff Bell Lightbox until June 10, consists of...
- 4/4/2017
- MUBI
Like a lot of politically charged films, Norman McLaren’s “Neighbours” was controversial upon release and his since come to be regarded as an important classic. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the winner of an Academy Award in 1953, McLaren’s eight-minute short can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube. Watch below.
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The stop-motion short finds two men reading newspapers with opposing headlines in front of their cardboard houses when a flower sprouts at the halfway point between their respective homes. Both are drawn to it, eventually leading to a conflict: They put up a fence and use parts of it as swords, devolving more and more into barbarism as their feud escalates.
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“I was inspired to make ‘Neighbours...
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The stop-motion short finds two men reading newspapers with opposing headlines in front of their cardboard houses when a flower sprouts at the halfway point between their respective homes. Both are drawn to it, eventually leading to a conflict: They put up a fence and use parts of it as swords, devolving more and more into barbarism as their feud escalates.
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“I was inspired to make ‘Neighbours...
- 2/19/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The irrepressible Sam Fuller fashions a crime thriller for German TV with his expected eccentricity: old-fashioned hardboiled scripting, freeform direction and bits of graffiti from the French New Wave. Christa Lang is the femme fatale and Glenn Corbett is the twofisted American hero, whose name is Not Griff. And yes, a pigeon does bite the pavement on Beethoven Street, and I tell you, that's one dead pigeon. Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street Blu-ray Olive Films 1974 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame (for German TV / 127 min. / Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße / Street Date April 19, 2016 / / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95 Starring Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Sieghardt Rupp, Anton Diffring, Stéphane Audran, Alexander D'Arcy, Anthony Chinn. Cinematography Jerzy Lipman Film Editor Liesgret Schmitt-Klink Original Music The Can German dialogue by Manfred R. Köhler Produced by Joachim von Mengershausen Written and Directed by Samuel Fuller
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Not that it helped Sam Fuller's career much,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Not that it helped Sam Fuller's career much,...
- 4/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The 45th Acs Annual National Awards for Cinematography will be held in Adelaide on March 30.
The Acs will be hosting a suite of satellite events from April 29 to May 2..
They include an expo with companies including Fujifilm-Fujinon, Silvertrak, Canon, Blackmagic, Lemac, Rosco, Miller, Panasonic, Sun Studios, Videocraft, Ignite Digi, Harmer laser cut foam (Form Cut), Picture Hire and Psycholites.
Other events include a Chinese banquet for expo attendees at Adelaide's CitiZen restaraunt, exhibitor presentations, an Acs tour of the iconic Adelaide Oval, a Meet The Nominees session, a screening of documentary Dean Semler.s Road to Hollywood, the 2016 Agm, a McLaren Vale winery tour and lunch, and a panel discussion featuring John Seale Acs Asc and David Burr Acs.
Bookings can be made here:
www.acsshop.com.au/collections/acs-events-bookings...
The Acs will be hosting a suite of satellite events from April 29 to May 2..
They include an expo with companies including Fujifilm-Fujinon, Silvertrak, Canon, Blackmagic, Lemac, Rosco, Miller, Panasonic, Sun Studios, Videocraft, Ignite Digi, Harmer laser cut foam (Form Cut), Picture Hire and Psycholites.
Other events include a Chinese banquet for expo attendees at Adelaide's CitiZen restaraunt, exhibitor presentations, an Acs tour of the iconic Adelaide Oval, a Meet The Nominees session, a screening of documentary Dean Semler.s Road to Hollywood, the 2016 Agm, a McLaren Vale winery tour and lunch, and a panel discussion featuring John Seale Acs Asc and David Burr Acs.
Bookings can be made here:
www.acsshop.com.au/collections/acs-events-bookings...
- 3/9/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
It's reassuring to learn that the gulf between east and west isn't as great as we might assume: it turns out that, in the sixties, just as they did in Europe and America, people in Japan got about mainly by means of jump-cuts.Nobuhiko Obayashi is best known for Hausu (a.k.a. House, 1977), a dayglo, balls-out insane horror movie that plays like a cross between The Evil Dead, a lunatic's idea of Douglas Sirk, and a girl's comic, all fed through a mincer and laced with psilocybin. The prolific filmmaker (still going strong today) actually began in the sixties with TV commercials and experimental films, of which the forty-minute oddity Emotion is one.The movie, a collage of camera effects, stills, pixillation and every other trick the decade had to offer, opens with a dedication to Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses, but though the film does feature lesbianism and vampirism,...
- 11/12/2015
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Get your beret and warm up the espresso! Some of the most famous deep-dish art film is here -- in HD -- starting with attempts to translate various art 'isms' to the screen, to graphics-oriented abstractions, to 'city symphonies' to the dream visions of Maya Deren and beyond. The careful remasters reproduce proper projection speeds and original music. Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray + DVD Flicker Alley 1920-1970 / B&W and Color / 1:33 full frame / 418 min. / Street Date October 6, 2015 / 59.95 With films by James Agee, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, Rudolph Burckhardt, Mary Ellen Bute, Joseph Cornell, Jim Davis, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Emien Etting, Oksar Fischinger, Robert Florey, Amy Greenfield, A. Hackenschmied, Alexander Hammid, Hillary Harris, Hy Hirsh, Ian Hugo, Lawrence Janiac, Lawrence Jordan, Owen Land, Francis Lee, Fernand Léger, Helen Levitt, Jan Leyda, Janice Loeb, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Dudley Murphy, Ted Nemeth, Bernard O'Brien,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
For Norman McLaren form is everything. That makes sense given the medium he chose to express his art. Short films are, perhaps more than any other expression of film, succinct and to the point. The story is in the form, the vision is in the form, the art is in the form. To that end many directors have spent many years trying their best to manipulate the form. Film is malleable after all, that is the most breathtaking aspect of the medium. To see something so straightforward taken and twisted until it meets the vision of the artist is akin to the definition of art.
That is where Norman McLaren enters the picture. He was a master at taking the form of the short film and twisting and turning it until it fit his vision of art. Take a film like Dots for instance. A simple red animated landscape is...
That is where Norman McLaren enters the picture. He was a master at taking the form of the short film and twisting and turning it until it fit his vision of art. Take a film like Dots for instance. A simple red animated landscape is...
- 4/4/2015
- by Bill Thompson
- SoundOnSight
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Our favorite online curator have offered us an interactive map on some of the top Canadian film spotlights (from Canuck/poutine filmmaker types) available over at Fandor.com. The Fandor folks support and showcase features developed, and shot in The Great White North. Among the names, we find the likes of Gerald Potterton, Norman McLaren, Winnipeg’s best in Guy Maddin, Cannes Film Festival habitual Xavier Dolan’s debut film, I Killed My Mother and of course treasures from the National Film Board of Canada.
- 12/4/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Today's big news: Laura Poitras's film about Edward Snowden will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival before screening in London and hitting theaters at the end of October. Also in today's roundup: A sampler of film manifestos, David Lowery on Tsai Ming-liang, Crystal Chan on Norman McLaren and David Gregory Lawson on Richard Linklater; interviews with David Lynch, Terry Gilliam and David Fincher; videos featuring Martin Scorsese and Terence Davies; and podcasts on Lauren Bacall and Ian McKellen. » - David Hudson...
- 9/17/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Today's big news: Laura Poitras's film about Edward Snowden will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival before screening in London and hitting theaters at the end of October. Also in today's roundup: A sampler of film manifestos, David Lowery on Tsai Ming-liang, Crystal Chan on Norman McLaren and David Gregory Lawson on Richard Linklater; interviews with David Lynch, Terry Gilliam and David Fincher; videos featuring Martin Scorsese and Terence Davies; and podcasts on Lauren Bacall and Ian McKellen. » - David Hudson...
- 9/17/2014
- Keyframe
Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of this week’s wave of programming that includes Discovery.
The Discovery section includes the upcoming world premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, a portmanteau of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex testimonies by anonymous filmmakers from Kenya.
Selections include first-looks of Ross Katz’s Us comedy Adult Beginners, Sarah Leonor’s French Legion drama The Great Man, Isidora Marras’ Chile-Argentinian psychothriller I Am Not Lorena and UK drama X + Y.
“Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and David Gordon Green all presented their first features in our Discovery section,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. “It’s a great place to spot new talent first.”
Besides St. Vincent, Festival Additions includes concert film cum road movie Roger Waters The Wall, while the world premiere of Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body takes its place among the Masters strand.
Tiff Docs arrivals...
The Discovery section includes the upcoming world premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, a portmanteau of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex testimonies by anonymous filmmakers from Kenya.
Selections include first-looks of Ross Katz’s Us comedy Adult Beginners, Sarah Leonor’s French Legion drama The Great Man, Isidora Marras’ Chile-Argentinian psychothriller I Am Not Lorena and UK drama X + Y.
“Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and David Gordon Green all presented their first features in our Discovery section,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. “It’s a great place to spot new talent first.”
Besides St. Vincent, Festival Additions includes concert film cum road movie Roger Waters The Wall, while the world premiere of Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body takes its place among the Masters strand.
Tiff Docs arrivals...
- 8/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The luxurious banquet hall in Toronto’s Royal York hotel was electric with excitement as Tiff senior programmers including Steve Gravestock and Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo announced the robust lineup of Canadian films (several world preems) at this year’s Tiff plus the 40+ short titles (out of an astounding 840 short films — an increase of over 200 titles from last year) that will screen at the prestigious festival. With features populating almost every section at the fest, among the headliner items from English Canada, Cairo Time‘s Ruba Nadda returns to the fest with October Gale, while also world preeming is Bang Bang Baby — Jeffrey St. Jules marks his feature film debut with a film that is equal parts Rocky Horror Picture Show and early Cronenberg. Starring Jane Levy of the recent About Alex, it revolves around a small-town teenager in the ’60s whose dream of becoming a famous singer is dashed...
- 8/6/2014
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
New work by Sturla Gunnarsson, Denys Arcand, Ruba Nadda and Xavier Dolan are among the selection set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) next month.
“These are filmmakers at the top of their craft, bringing fresh perspectives to traditional genres like comedies and less traditionally Canadian genres, such as musicals,” said Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “This year’s slate truly showcases the diversity of talent in our country, featuring films from coast to coast.”
“We are inspired by the number of exceptional debut features from Canadian directors, reflecting the depth of talent in this country,” said Tiff’s Canadian features programmer Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo.
“Extremely exciting is also the fact that female-driven narratives play a significant part in this year’s programming, highlighting the strong, rich tapestry of our storytelling.”
The Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film is up for grabs, as is the...
“These are filmmakers at the top of their craft, bringing fresh perspectives to traditional genres like comedies and less traditionally Canadian genres, such as musicals,” said Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “This year’s slate truly showcases the diversity of talent in our country, featuring films from coast to coast.”
“We are inspired by the number of exceptional debut features from Canadian directors, reflecting the depth of talent in this country,” said Tiff’s Canadian features programmer Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo.
“Extremely exciting is also the fact that female-driven narratives play a significant part in this year’s programming, highlighting the strong, rich tapestry of our storytelling.”
The Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film is up for grabs, as is the...
- 8/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is the most significant event of its kind on the calendar, and it wraps up this weekend. Founded in 1960, this thrilling gathering of artists at the foot of the French Alps has premiered films from the likes of Jan Švankmajer, Hayao Miyazaki, Wes Anderson and Bill Plympton. Every year the competition line-up is filled with bizarre, unique and immensely intriguing work from all over the world, but so few of these films find their way to cinemas in the United States, where independent animation on the big screen is something of a rarity. Fortunately, Annecy is lending the world a bit of a hand this time around. They’re hosting three of their repertory programs online, as well as the entire competition of commissioned works. The festival ends tomorrow but the videos will be available until June 30th (and many of them will probably be kept online indefinitely by the providers...
- 6/14/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cannes is a great place for cartoons. That may sound odd, given the festivals’s reputation as a towering arbiter of high-minded auteurist cinema, but it’s true. The Palme d’Or for short film (which is a thing!) has been given to many, many animated short films over the years. As is also true of the Best Animated Short Film category at the Oscars, Canada’s National Film Board has done quite will for itself. In 1955 the very first official Palme d’Or du Court Métrage went to Norman McLaren for his experimental his experimental Blinkity Blank. That said, the more interesting story is a Cold War one. The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries were powerhouses of animation for much of the latter half of the 20th century. The films never quite broke into American awards, but time and again juries at Cannes chose to recognize their brilliance. Russian...
- 5/24/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Above: New Fancy Foils
My new favorite filmmaker is the American animator Jodie Mack. In 2012 I was in the audience at the Views from the Avant-Garde sidebar of the New York Film Festival and had the unexpected experience of dropping my jaw and having it remain fully in that position throughout the surface loveliness and aggregating intensity—both analytic and sensual—of Mack's lace flicker film Point de Gaze. Its young filmmaker has been making films since 2003—several of which are viewable on her website—with a flurrying productivity which belays the painstaking efforts taken to bring her animated films to life. The screening was the revelation of incredible talent, a moving effort of hands and mind, and it promised a great deal for the future.
That promise had already paid off in spades at the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam in January, which presented a program of Mack's recent short films not as a profile,...
My new favorite filmmaker is the American animator Jodie Mack. In 2012 I was in the audience at the Views from the Avant-Garde sidebar of the New York Film Festival and had the unexpected experience of dropping my jaw and having it remain fully in that position throughout the surface loveliness and aggregating intensity—both analytic and sensual—of Mack's lace flicker film Point de Gaze. Its young filmmaker has been making films since 2003—several of which are viewable on her website—with a flurrying productivity which belays the painstaking efforts taken to bring her animated films to life. The screening was the revelation of incredible talent, a moving effort of hands and mind, and it promised a great deal for the future.
That promise had already paid off in spades at the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam in January, which presented a program of Mack's recent short films not as a profile,...
- 5/11/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The big movie this weekend is Neighbors, starring Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen. This makes it the perfect time to watch another film called Neighbours, starring two Canadian animators and one particularly pesky yellow flower. After all, they’re basically the same movie. You can also consider it your personal celebration of the National Film Board of Canada, which celebrated its 75th anniversary this week. Norman McLaren‘s Oscar-winning 1952 short is a classic of stop-motion animation. And, like Nicholas Stoller’s new comedy, it is about two next-door neighbors who just can’t get along. The conflict in the new one is a bit more complex, framed as an inter-generational war between a married couple with a young child and a college fraternity. The 1952 Neighbours is just about two nondescript guys, almost exactly alike. They sit next to each other peacefully on their front lawns, reading newspapers that mirror each other. They...
- 5/10/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
A Tangled Tale (dir. Corrie Francis, 2013)
The Off animation block was full of great contenders of various animation styles. Snowdysseus played like a stop-motion, nightmare-fueled version of Gravity featuring an astronaut trapped in a land plagued with skeletons; the crowd-pleasing, mannequin-starring Baby Chicken sported a short adventure of a deadly breakfast; the French animated short The Little Blond Boy with a White Sheep favored the use of imagination and frolicking with farm animals to standardized tests; and even a computer-rendered children’s film narrated by George Takei, The Missing Scarf. Yet, of all the shorts presented, the atmospheric A Tangled Tale has managed to make the most lasting impression, mixing mediums of what looks like chalk and watercolor and allowing the music and sound design to tell the story, any visuals being abstract, yet powerful. Rough outlines of color against a black background reveal hints of a body of water,...
The Off animation block was full of great contenders of various animation styles. Snowdysseus played like a stop-motion, nightmare-fueled version of Gravity featuring an astronaut trapped in a land plagued with skeletons; the crowd-pleasing, mannequin-starring Baby Chicken sported a short adventure of a deadly breakfast; the French animated short The Little Blond Boy with a White Sheep favored the use of imagination and frolicking with farm animals to standardized tests; and even a computer-rendered children’s film narrated by George Takei, The Missing Scarf. Yet, of all the shorts presented, the atmospheric A Tangled Tale has managed to make the most lasting impression, mixing mediums of what looks like chalk and watercolor and allowing the music and sound design to tell the story, any visuals being abstract, yet powerful. Rough outlines of color against a black background reveal hints of a body of water,...
- 2/16/2014
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
Animated Exeter | Valentine's Day | Future Cinema Presents Who Framed Roger Rabbit | The Room
Animated Exeter
There's as much to do as there is to see at this animation fest, especially for young people. They can devise their own Moshi Monsters (Exeter Phoenix, 16 Feb) and Mike The Knight animations (Exeter Cathedral, 17 Feb), learn how to work with stop-motion, 2D cutouts, software programmes and iPads, all with advice from the likes of creatives from Aardman. A visit from the National Film Board Of Canada brings fresh and classic work, including a Norman McLaren workshop (Exeter Phoenix, 20 Feb), while onscreen there are shorts programmes, many of them made by and aimed at the young, plus recent features such as Frozen, Wolf Children and From Up On Poppy Hill.
Various venues, Mon to 22 Feb
Valentine's Day, Nationwide
You could play it safe this Friday with the reissued Sleepless In Seattle, but the culture-savant, sunglasses-after-dark...
Animated Exeter
There's as much to do as there is to see at this animation fest, especially for young people. They can devise their own Moshi Monsters (Exeter Phoenix, 16 Feb) and Mike The Knight animations (Exeter Cathedral, 17 Feb), learn how to work with stop-motion, 2D cutouts, software programmes and iPads, all with advice from the likes of creatives from Aardman. A visit from the National Film Board Of Canada brings fresh and classic work, including a Norman McLaren workshop (Exeter Phoenix, 20 Feb), while onscreen there are shorts programmes, many of them made by and aimed at the young, plus recent features such as Frozen, Wolf Children and From Up On Poppy Hill.
Various venues, Mon to 22 Feb
Valentine's Day, Nationwide
You could play it safe this Friday with the reissued Sleepless In Seattle, but the culture-savant, sunglasses-after-dark...
- 2/8/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Nb: Films by Robert Beavers, Peter Hutton, and Luther Price were unavailable for preview. However, I said some very nice things about these men and their work in general over at The Dissolve.
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
In years past, I have attempted to present this extended article as a preview; my aim has been to send it off into the world either the day before of the day of Tiff's kick-off. That has proven impossible this year, and, dear reader, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee... But the fact that Wavelengths is a beat that is becoming harder and harder for one person to adequately cover is undoubtedly a sign of good health. Since last year, when Tiff enfolded the former Visions section (a space for formally adventurous narrative features) into Wavelengths (Tiff's experimental showcase), not only has interest in the section grown exponentially. The section can now more fully reflect...
- 9/9/2013
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Why Watch? For starters, today begins the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and this trippy short won the short film Palme d’Or back in 1955. Blinkity Blank is one of Canadian animator Norman McLaren‘s more charismatic experimental works, designed to play with persistence of vision. He scratched all of these strange little images directly onto black film leader, and accompanied them with scratches he added to the film’s optical soundtrack. Those odd noises were then added to Maurice Blackburn‘s experimental jazz soundtrack. The colorful shapes resemble abstract forms as well as the occasional bird, a favorite subject of McLaren’s. There also a number of blank frames, which he described as “sprinkling on the empty band of time.” Sometimes the shapes combine and grow, sometimes they erase one another. This fluid and immaterial rhythms of light grab fleetingly at the eye, and haunt your vision quite literally for the slightest of instants. Turn off the lights...
- 5/15/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Why Watch? Because Dušan Vukotić is your new favorite old school Croatian animator, I promise you that. Piccolo is a gleefully ridiculous exercise in allegory, poking fun at the Cold War at its peak. Two neighbors share a house, split down the middle. They lead a quiet, friendly existence until one of them buys a tiny (piccolo) harmonica. His refusal to put the damn thing down, even in the middle of the night, kicks off an arms race in miniature as they try to out-blast each other with an endless progression of instruments. In a way, this is a musically-minded remake of Norman McLaren’s Oscar-winning Neighbours (1952), but without its bleak sense of humor. Piccolo‘s comedy is beaming, taking advantage of the dynamic character of Vukotić’s style. A pair of cymbals turns into a bicycle. The walls of the house are punctured by pizzicato. There’s a particularly clever gag involving a bottle of gin...
- 4/3/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
September is here again, and it's time to delve into the cinematic bounty of the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, that rambunctious and idiosyncratic corner of the Reitman Machine largely cordoned off from commercial concerns and set aside for lovely and sometimes difficult film art. Despite the ever-changing profile of Tiff, stalwart programmer Andréa Picard has [cue needle-scratching-record sound] What? Yes, last year at this time, the avant-garde community thought we were seeing Ms. Picard leaving this position behind. Fortunately for us all, Tiff won her back.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
And this is where things get interesting. Starting with this 2012 edition of the festival, the Wavelengths section is a much more broadly based, festival-wide category. In essence, it now subsumes the old Visions designation, which was Tiff’s home for formally challenging, feature-length arthouse fare. This merger, which may seem like a bit of a shotgun wedding to some, does in fact make sense.
- 9/11/2012
- MUBI
Ricky D accidentally ignited a day-long Twitter debate about Animation and specifically whether Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin is an animated movie or not, when he was tweeting related to his article about the biggest Oscar snubs.
Since the debate was spirited but polite, we thought that we would compile the debate and make it available in one place. Tweets have been slightly edited to remove spelling errors and redundancies and the order altered a bit.
Taking the position that Tintin is an animated film: Sound On Sight contributor Michael Ryan who tweets under the name Llakor. Michael is not an animator, but as Festival Director of the YoungCuts Film Festival he evaluates hundreds of animated films every year made in a variety of styles. He also grew up an Nfb brat, meeting and talking to animators from a very early age, which includes visiting Co Hoedeman when...
Since the debate was spirited but polite, we thought that we would compile the debate and make it available in one place. Tweets have been slightly edited to remove spelling errors and redundancies and the order altered a bit.
Taking the position that Tintin is an animated film: Sound On Sight contributor Michael Ryan who tweets under the name Llakor. Michael is not an animator, but as Festival Director of the YoungCuts Film Festival he evaluates hundreds of animated films every year made in a variety of styles. He also grew up an Nfb brat, meeting and talking to animators from a very early age, which includes visiting Co Hoedeman when...
- 1/28/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
If there is one director who has made his presence felt with a debut in 2011, it is Sébastien Pilote from Canada. Few have heard of him, and even fewer have seen his first feature film The Salesman. The Salesman is probably one of the most powerful films from Canada in recent decades that recall the quiet intensity of the works of Canadian directors Claude Jutra and Norman McLaren, some forty or fifty years ago. The Salesman was honoured with the Jury’s Grand Prize and the Best Actor Silver Gateway award at the recently concluded Mumbai International Film Festival where the competition section is only open to debut films across the world. Having caught up with the film at the International Film Festival of Kerala, one realizes that the Mumbai jury had honoured the two aspects of the movie that truly make it a rewarding experience—the direction and the acting.
- 1/4/2012
- by Jugu Abraham
- DearCinema.com
Exclusive Interviews: Senior Staff Introduces Pixar Canada and Their Upcoming Cars 2 Short Air Mater
For some, Canada is the home of hockey, maple leaves, and profuse iterations of the word ‘eh.’ For cinephiles, however, Canada produces some of the finest animation in the world—after all, it’s the home country of Norman McLaren. And now, the biggest name in the industry has set up base up North. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Pixar Canada. Overlooking a gorgeous Vancouver landscape, Pixar’s newest studio is home to a small team of 75 men and women, specializing in producing new shorts. Primarily working with the Cars and Toy Story franchises, the studio’s first project, a 5-minute toon called Air Mater, will debut on the Cars 2 DVD and Blu-ray on November 1st, while their next project will see theatrical release attached to the front of The Muppets. But surprisingly, the workspace has...
- 10/24/2011
- by Giovanni Colantonio
- The Daily BLAM!
Exclusive Interviews: Senior Staff Introduces Pixar Canada and Their Upcoming Cars 2 Short Air Mater
For some, Canada is the home of hockey, maple leaves, and profuse iterations of the word ‘eh.’ For cinephiles, however, Canada produces some of the finest animation in the world—after all, it’s the home country of Norman McLaren. And now, the biggest name in the industry has set up base up North. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Pixar Canada. Overlooking a gorgeous Vancouver landscape, Pixar’s newest studio is home to a small team of 75 men and women, specializing in producing new shorts. Primarily working with the Cars and Toy Story franchises, the studio’s first project, a 5-minute toon called Air Mater, will debut on the Cars 2 DVD and Blu-Ray on November 1st, while their next project will see theatrical release attached to the front of The Muppets. But surprisingly, the workspace has...
- 10/14/2011
- by Giovanni Colantonio
- The Daily BLAM!
On Sunday, the Cannes Film Festival Jury, headed by Robert De Niro, will be announcing this year’s Palme d’Or. And while that’s certainly exciting, it's easy to overlook its twin award, the Palme d’Or for short film. The honor has existed for almost as long as the festival itself and over the years has jump-started quite a few careers, from Norman McLaren and Albert Lamorisse to Jane Campion and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. One can even trace the origins of the Romanian New Wave to 2004 and the victory of Cătălin Mitulescu’s “Trafic,” a year before his compatriots’ features started raising…...
- 5/20/2011
- Spout
Moving Image Source has made an annual tradition of gathering from their contributors, but also artists, writers and others, their pick for the "moving image moment or event" of the year. What makes this list so interesting is that it ranges far past just the movies, to include videos on the web, TV shows, news footage and more, from critics and from creators. The whole thing is worth perusing, but here's a sampling:
Dan Streible, director of The Orphan Film Symposium
Nothing was more compelling than the latest season of the HBO series In Treatment, in which psychotherapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) begins his own talk therapy with a young new doctor (Amy Ryan). She nails him on all of his rationalizations and offers devastating insights into his psyche and his practice. Their verbal duels are sharply written and Byrne, who must carry every episode, creates one of the deepest,...
Dan Streible, director of The Orphan Film Symposium
Nothing was more compelling than the latest season of the HBO series In Treatment, in which psychotherapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) begins his own talk therapy with a young new doctor (Amy Ryan). She nails him on all of his rationalizations and offers devastating insights into his psyche and his practice. Their verbal duels are sharply written and Byrne, who must carry every episode, creates one of the deepest,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Every year, studio executive Franklin Leonard compiles the “Black List,” a collection of the best unproduced screenplays as voted on by 300 execs and high-level assistants. The 2010 list is the sixth of its kind to bring additional awareness to Hollywood’s hottest scripts.
Topping the list this year is Wes Jones’ College Republicans, a Social Network-esque story (read my script review here) about the underhanded election of Karl Rove to a National College Republican seat, managed by strategy wunderkind Lee Atwater. Shia Labeouf is attached to play Atwater and Paul Dano as Rove. Previous Black List leaders include 2008’s The Beaver, which became a long-delayed film directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson, and 2009’s The Muppet Man, which remains on the shelf.
Top 10 of 2010 (via the La Times). The Black List is available for download on the official website. Update: the rest added below:
49 votes: “College Republicans” by Wes Jones.
Topping the list this year is Wes Jones’ College Republicans, a Social Network-esque story (read my script review here) about the underhanded election of Karl Rove to a National College Republican seat, managed by strategy wunderkind Lee Atwater. Shia Labeouf is attached to play Atwater and Paul Dano as Rove. Previous Black List leaders include 2008’s The Beaver, which became a long-delayed film directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson, and 2009’s The Muppet Man, which remains on the shelf.
Top 10 of 2010 (via the La Times). The Black List is available for download on the official website. Update: the rest added below:
49 votes: “College Republicans” by Wes Jones.
- 12/13/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
London, Sep 26 – Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah was recently taken into custody on suspicion of drink driving after a late-night argument with her beau.
The drama, which started in the early hours of Thursday morning, saw cops called to the couple’s London flat twice.
Thereafter, police arrested her behind the wheels of her Mercedes Mclaren Supercar.
Neighbours were woken by screaming and shouting at around in the early hours when they heard Amelle, 26, was banging on the door of the flat she shares with boyfriend Tom Benn, 30.
When one worried neighbour raced to the scene, Tom pleaded with him to call the police claiming he was restraining Amelle.
“It was mayhem. They must.
The drama, which started in the early hours of Thursday morning, saw cops called to the couple’s London flat twice.
Thereafter, police arrested her behind the wheels of her Mercedes Mclaren Supercar.
Neighbours were woken by screaming and shouting at around in the early hours when they heard Amelle, 26, was banging on the door of the flat she shares with boyfriend Tom Benn, 30.
When one worried neighbour raced to the scene, Tom pleaded with him to call the police claiming he was restraining Amelle.
“It was mayhem. They must.
- 9/26/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present some of the earliest examples of three-dimensional motion pictures in a new “3D Rarities: From 1900 and Beyond” event.
It’s a common motion picture legend that the Lumière brothers’ early film “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” (1896) had audiences fleeing from their chairs as the train approached the station, threatening to run directly off the screen into the auditorium. However, few know that the Lumière brothers reshot the arrival of a train in 3D and organized a technically improved screening of that footage and other 3D shorts in 1935.
Bromberg, who is based in Paris, will present a look back at the origins of 3D, including the first efforts by the Lumière brothers and other rarities from Georges Méliès, Norman McLaren, Charley Bowers and the Disney Studios, in the 3D edition of his “Retour de Flamme (Saved from the Flames)” show.
It’s a common motion picture legend that the Lumière brothers’ early film “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” (1896) had audiences fleeing from their chairs as the train approached the station, threatening to run directly off the screen into the auditorium. However, few know that the Lumière brothers reshot the arrival of a train in 3D and organized a technically improved screening of that footage and other 3D shorts in 1935.
Bromberg, who is based in Paris, will present a look back at the origins of 3D, including the first efforts by the Lumière brothers and other rarities from Georges Méliès, Norman McLaren, Charley Bowers and the Disney Studios, in the 3D edition of his “Retour de Flamme (Saved from the Flames)” show.
- 8/18/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
[Our thanks to Mathieu Li-Goyette of Panorama Cinema for the following interview.]
For the 14th edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, programmers had the great idea of bringing up Don Bluth and Gary Goldman to given them an honorary award and to speak about the future of traditional animation. We had the honor to meet them, the creative team behind such classics as The Secret of Nimh (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), Stanley's Magic Garden (1994), Titan A.E. (2000), etc. For the occasion, a real history lesson on how animation evolved and what, in 1979, made them quit the Disney studios in search of a renaissance of the Golden Age of animation was given to us. An interview with the last milestones of commercial animation: two geniuses that still have kid's hearts.
Panorama-cinéma: So you are here in Fantasia to present The Land Before Time and to receive an honorary award.
Gary Goldman: It's what we've been told! (laughs)
Panorama-cinéma:...
For the 14th edition of the Fantasia Film Festival, programmers had the great idea of bringing up Don Bluth and Gary Goldman to given them an honorary award and to speak about the future of traditional animation. We had the honor to meet them, the creative team behind such classics as The Secret of Nimh (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), Stanley's Magic Garden (1994), Titan A.E. (2000), etc. For the occasion, a real history lesson on how animation evolved and what, in 1979, made them quit the Disney studios in search of a renaissance of the Golden Age of animation was given to us. An interview with the last milestones of commercial animation: two geniuses that still have kid's hearts.
Panorama-cinéma: So you are here in Fantasia to present The Land Before Time and to receive an honorary award.
Gary Goldman: It's what we've been told! (laughs)
Panorama-cinéma:...
- 7/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
In celebration of International Animation Day and the National Film Board of Canada.s 70th anniversary, the Nfb is launching a special edition of Get Animated!, a series of free public screenings, October 23.31, 2009, in 13 communities across Canada. This third edition will showcase new films for all ages from the Nfb's Oscar-winning animation studios in the programs 'Animation Feast' and the 'Nfb Family Program', featuring special presentations by Canadian filmmakers Chris Landreth and Cordell Barker, as well as hands-on animation workshops. The Nfb.s new 2-disc set Animation Express, a collection of films by 'today.s animation innovators', will also be on sale at screening venues. Taking place October 28, 2009, 'International Animation Day' is an annual celebration in over 40 countries, initiated by the International Animated Film Association (Asifa) in 2002. Nfb animation founder Norman McLaren was the first president of Asifa. This year, the Nfb celebrates 70 Oscar nominations in 70 years . more nominations than...
- 9/28/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
They.ve called him Canada.s David Lynch, but Guy Maddin defies definition. His weirdo cinematic dreamscapes, often featuring friend and collaborator Isabella Rossellini, are the artful product of a vivid and unique imagination. Maddin.s films have fervent followers around the world and he is finally being honoured at home. The National Film Board of Canada, the public film production house which has produced 13,000 productions and won 5000 awards including 70 Academy Award nominations, has been a friend and support to cinema artists since its inception in 1939. Documentarian John Grierson and animator Norman McLaren helped shape Canadian culture through their often experimental work developed in the Nfb environment. The Nfb, which is supported by taxpayers. money, holds a...
- 9/15/2009
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
The Montreal World Film Festival's Canadian Student Film Fest has announced the winners for its competition. "Dog Girl" was awarded as the overall winner.
As the winner of the Norman McLaren Award, the film by Heather Young is offered a value of ,500 in technical services for its next production.
Also offered cash prize is the Kodak Imaging Award winner for Best New Canadian Student Director, Claudia Hebert for her film "La Regle Du Futur Compose." She will receive a camera and 00 from the Kodak Canada Entertainment Imaging.
The winners of the competition are:...
As the winner of the Norman McLaren Award, the film by Heather Young is offered a value of ,500 in technical services for its next production.
Also offered cash prize is the Kodak Imaging Award winner for Best New Canadian Student Director, Claudia Hebert for her film "La Regle Du Futur Compose." She will receive a camera and 00 from the Kodak Canada Entertainment Imaging.
The winners of the competition are:...
- 9/3/2009
- icelebz.com
Electronica can be a debilitating enterprise over time. The genre, at its best, sprinkles diverse, intricately detailed elements among urgent beats that demand body movement; however, as their careers progress, many electronic artists obsess with nuance, sacrificing the taut, compelling thrills that drive the form. The end result tends to be slick, emotion-devoid trance music. While still sporting moments of buoyancy and cheer, Junior Boys’ Begone Dull Care—named after a collaboration between animator Norman McLaren and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson—is hypnotically fascinated with subtlety, lacking the duo’s previous vigor. Generally hurting for variety, the record still has ...
- 4/14/2009
- avclub.com
PARIS -- The National Film Board of Canada will sponsor a new award at the Festival de Cannes for the winner of the short film Palme d'Or, festival organizers said Thursday. The Norman McLaren Prize, named after the celebrated animation filmmaker, will come with a cash prize of 3,000 ($3,800) for the director, along with an optional offer from the NFB to handle international distribution and to co-produce or invest in the winner's next short film. McLaren made some 60 films at the NFB, and his work is considered part of international film heritage. In 1955, he won the short film Palme d'Or for Blinkity Blink. The NFB is restoring all of McLaren's films. "We are delighted to pair the Norman McLaren Prize with this award in tribute to this great master of animated shorts, who is an inspiration for filmmakers around the world," said Veronique Cayla, managing director the Festival de Cannes. "In 2006, the festival will participate in the launch of Norman McLaren's complete works by presenting a selection of his restored films."...
- 4/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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