With “The Inventor,” Jim Capobianco (the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “Ratatouille“) has managed to direct a family-friendly animated musical (in both stop-motion and 2D) about Leonardo da Vinci’s search for the meaning of life at the end of his life. That’s quite a da Vinci code to crack. That is why it took 12 years to make as a co-production with Curiosity Studio (Ireland), Foliascope (France), Aerial Contrivance Studios, and Robert Rippberger’s Sie Films.
Capobianco’s fascination with da Vinci began with the 2009 2D short “Leonardo,” after intense research into his legendary life as an inventor of flying machines, artist, and pioneer in the study of human anatomy. But what sparked Capobianco’s interest was the notion of da Vinci as “a real person struck with ideas beyond the technical, intellectual, and the societal capabilities of his time.” For him, “The Inventor” explores legacy, how you live your life,...
Capobianco’s fascination with da Vinci began with the 2009 2D short “Leonardo,” after intense research into his legendary life as an inventor of flying machines, artist, and pioneer in the study of human anatomy. But what sparked Capobianco’s interest was the notion of da Vinci as “a real person struck with ideas beyond the technical, intellectual, and the societal capabilities of his time.” For him, “The Inventor” explores legacy, how you live your life,...
- 9/15/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The fifth edition of the world's only industry event dedicated to stop-motion animation will feature an impressive list of experts and decision makers, and the pitching of 15 projects. The world's only industry event dedicated to stop-motion animation, the Animarkt Stop Motion Forum, organised by Polish animation production, distribution and promotion company Momakin every year in Łódź, is taking place fully online for the fifth time from 6-10 October. The Animarkt programme consists of three main sections: Masters, Business and Pitching. Masters brings real animation masters to run workshops for puppet makers, operators and animators. This year, the guests will be Andy Gent, a puppet creator who is also known as Wes Anderson’s right-hand man; Kim Keukeleire, who served as animation director on My Life as a Courgette and who also worked on Chicken Run; Tobias Fouracre, animation supervisor on Isle of Dogs and key animator on Fantastic Mr. Fox...
Orphanages conjure up images of the hard-knock life and servings of gruel. This tough, deeply moving, Céline Sciamma-penned, 66-minute stop-motion gem from France shows the flipside. Sure, harsh realities are inevitably encountered — sometimes in a more uncompromising fashion than you’ll ever see in what is ostensibly a children’s film — but Claude Barras’ feature-directing debut has heart enough to show.
Cinema tells us children want to escape from schools and institutions – Barras name-checks The 400 Blows and The Chorus among his influences here — but in My Life as a Courgette, it’s the outside world that needs escape. That’s where we meet Icare, nicknamed “Courgette” (French for “zucchini”; voiced by Gaspard Schlatter) by his alcoholic maman, who’s amassed stacks of beer cans that he plays with while she watches TV soaps, occasionally screeching at her son when she’s disturbed from her slumber. Before long, her...
Cinema tells us children want to escape from schools and institutions – Barras name-checks The 400 Blows and The Chorus among his influences here — but in My Life as a Courgette, it’s the outside world that needs escape. That’s where we meet Icare, nicknamed “Courgette” (French for “zucchini”; voiced by Gaspard Schlatter) by his alcoholic maman, who’s amassed stacks of beer cans that he plays with while she watches TV soaps, occasionally screeching at her son when she’s disturbed from her slumber. Before long, her...
- 10/11/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
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