Streaming services like HBO Max are under fire for mistreating animation studios and creators, but Disney's been a quiet canary in that coal mine. "The Owl House" is a spectacular series about a world of wild magic, and it's never afraid to deal with tough topics like betrayal and emotional abuse. Its story treats its diverse and Lgtbq+ cast with refreshing acceptance. Unfortunately, it's also slated to end with a third season consisting of only three 40-minute episodes. This doesn't stop Disney from trotting out the series for promotion during Pride Month. Creator Dana Terrace is quick to point out the cancellation is likely due to the show's darkness and plot complexity, not any bigotry on the Mouse's part.
That rings hollow for fans desperate for more Eda and Luz, and if you're not a fan yet, you should be. It's a terrific show for anyone, and dark enough to delight older kids.
That rings hollow for fans desperate for more Eda and Luz, and if you're not a fan yet, you should be. It's a terrific show for anyone, and dark enough to delight older kids.
- 9/13/2022
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Something that genuinely can be described as a passion project, the new stop-motion animated film, Mad God has been with legendary visual effects artist Phil Tippett for decades. For a man with his name on Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and RoboCop, finally realizing his crazed, nightmarish vision might’ve been the greatest challenge of his career. Made in parts over years and only getting across the finish line with the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign, the sure-to-be a new classic midnight movie arrives both on theater screens and streaming through Shudder this month.
We were lucky enough to chat with Tippett about what goes into such an elongated, difficult process.
The Film Stage: In terms of the inception of this film, what was the first image that formed in your head? What was the thing that made you think that this is the story and this is where everything is coming from?...
We were lucky enough to chat with Tippett about what goes into such an elongated, difficult process.
The Film Stage: In terms of the inception of this film, what was the first image that formed in your head? What was the thing that made you think that this is the story and this is where everything is coming from?...
- 6/10/2022
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor, Brynn Taylor | Written and Directed by Phil Tippett
First started in 1987, over thirty years in the making and the subject of much talk, rumour and speculation, Phil Tippett’s Mad God was certainly one of the most anticipated screenings at this year’s Fantasia. Given Tippett’s track record providing stop motion animation for the likes of RoboCop, Starship Troopers and the original Star Wars trilogy there was little doubt it would be a technical tour de force. The real question was how well the personal vision that had sustained the project over those years would resonate with others besides its creator.
Footage of a tower, possibly the Tower of Babel, being swallowed by black clouds and a scroll with an excerpt from the Bible’s Book of Leviticus promising all manner of divine punishment set the tone for Mad God before the title drops.
First started in 1987, over thirty years in the making and the subject of much talk, rumour and speculation, Phil Tippett’s Mad God was certainly one of the most anticipated screenings at this year’s Fantasia. Given Tippett’s track record providing stop motion animation for the likes of RoboCop, Starship Troopers and the original Star Wars trilogy there was little doubt it would be a technical tour de force. The real question was how well the personal vision that had sustained the project over those years would resonate with others besides its creator.
Footage of a tower, possibly the Tower of Babel, being swallowed by black clouds and a scroll with an excerpt from the Bible’s Book of Leviticus promising all manner of divine punishment set the tone for Mad God before the title drops.
- 8/26/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Despite stop-motion animation mostly focusing on children’s movies nowadays, with Laika and Aardman leading the charge for the medium’s cinematic output, the animation technique has always lent itself toward horror. As films like “Coraline” prove, no matter how cute the puppets work their mere movements already make them creepier than hand-drawn animation ever could. Oscar-winner VFX artist Phil Tippett recognizes this, so his feature directorial debut
Even if you don’t know the name Phil Tippett, you definitely know his work. The legendary VFX artist has revolutionized creature design, stop-motion, and CG-character animation, having worked in everything from “Star Wars,” and “RoboCop,” to “Piranha” and “Jurassic Park.” His passion project, “Mad God,” is 30 years in the making, with Tippett shooting early footage during the making of “RoboCop 2” before shelving the project until the ’00s, when he started slowly adding to the epic production. The result is a...
Even if you don’t know the name Phil Tippett, you definitely know his work. The legendary VFX artist has revolutionized creature design, stop-motion, and CG-character animation, having worked in everything from “Star Wars,” and “RoboCop,” to “Piranha” and “Jurassic Park.” His passion project, “Mad God,” is 30 years in the making, with Tippett shooting early footage during the making of “RoboCop 2” before shelving the project until the ’00s, when he started slowly adding to the epic production. The result is a...
- 8/24/2021
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Indiewire
Netflix reached over 200 million paid subscribers in 2020 thanks to the pandemic, with most of the growth coming from outside the US.
“Despite Covid-19, Netflix had a good 2020. At the end of last year, the company passed a milestone by reaching over 200 million paid subscribers. The pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders helped Netflix add a record 37 million new subscribers during the year, a 31% annual increase from 2019.”
Read more at PCMag.
The bolwoningen, fifty golf ball-shaped homes in Den Bosch, Netherlands, may just be the coolest alternative living homes on this planet.
“About an hour’s drive southeast from Amsterdam is a 12th-century city called Den Bosch, which boasts the Netherlands’s largest Catholic church and an art center devoted to painter Hieronymus Bosch (who was born there). As Unusual Places reports, Den Bosch also plays host to a neighborhood comprising 50 golf ball-shaped homes.”
Read more at Mental Floss.
Matt Damon...
“Despite Covid-19, Netflix had a good 2020. At the end of last year, the company passed a milestone by reaching over 200 million paid subscribers. The pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders helped Netflix add a record 37 million new subscribers during the year, a 31% annual increase from 2019.”
Read more at PCMag.
The bolwoningen, fifty golf ball-shaped homes in Den Bosch, Netherlands, may just be the coolest alternative living homes on this planet.
“About an hour’s drive southeast from Amsterdam is a 12th-century city called Den Bosch, which boasts the Netherlands’s largest Catholic church and an art center devoted to painter Hieronymus Bosch (who was born there). As Unusual Places reports, Den Bosch also plays host to a neighborhood comprising 50 golf ball-shaped homes.”
Read more at Mental Floss.
Matt Damon...
- 1/20/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
Early in “Irradiated,” a powerful but troublesome documentary howl of despair from Cambodian director Rithy Panh, the narration describes an act that must be familiar to anyone similarly transfixed by history. Referring to the black and white archival war footage that marches in triplicate across a screen that’s divided into three panels, the narrator speaks of “searching the eyes of the soldiers… but finding nothing there.” Anyone who has ever stared long and hard at a photograph of a deceased loved one, or at a picture of conflict reportage must relate to the frustration: It’s as though somehow we believe that an image must have within it some clue to the understanding of the incomprehensible loss or tragedy it depicts, and we can be acutely disappointed to find no such enlightenment.
This urge informs and complicates “Irradiated,” a film that is broader, wider and more ambitious in scope...
This urge informs and complicates “Irradiated,” a film that is broader, wider and more ambitious in scope...
- 2/28/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
After shooting 15 movies and two TV shows this decade alone, hyper-prolific renegade filmmaker Sono Sion was rushed to a Tokyo hospital in February, where emergency surgery was performed to save his life. The gonzo auteur behind the gleefully demented likes of “Suicide Circle” and “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?” had just finished work on an unhinged Amazon Prime series called “Tokyo Vampire Hotel,” which may have been his wildest project thus far; high praise for someone whose previous career highlights include the likes of “Love Exposure” (a four-hour epic about a teenage Catholic who falls in with a secret cult of up-skirt panty photographers) and “Tokyo Tribe” (a hyper-violent rap opera about a gangster who torches an entire city to the ground to compensate for his micro-penis).
Needless to say, the only thing less surprising than the fact that Sono suffered a heart attack is the fact that...
Needless to say, the only thing less surprising than the fact that Sono suffered a heart attack is the fact that...
- 10/14/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Häxan
Blu ray
Criterion
1922/ 1.33:1 / 105 min.
Starring Benjamin Christensen
Directed by Benjamin Christensen
Fine art joins forces with the dark arts in Häxan, an impeccably crafted docu-drama with the lurid kick of an exploitation film.
The influence of Benjamin Christensen’s silent horror show can be found far and wide, from movies as beloved as The Wizard of Oz and reviled as The Devils. Variety was certainly conflicted when Häxan was turned loose in 1922 – “Wonderful though this picture is, it is absolutely unfit for public exhibition.”
It’s not Intolerance but Häxan boasts both a sizable cast and elaborate settings (at the time it was the most expensive film ever produced in Denmark). Yet the credits suggest it was something of a one man show – Christensen wrote and narrated (his hypnotic glower is the first thing the audience sees) and he acts up a storm – he plays the devil who...
Blu ray
Criterion
1922/ 1.33:1 / 105 min.
Starring Benjamin Christensen
Directed by Benjamin Christensen
Fine art joins forces with the dark arts in Häxan, an impeccably crafted docu-drama with the lurid kick of an exploitation film.
The influence of Benjamin Christensen’s silent horror show can be found far and wide, from movies as beloved as The Wizard of Oz and reviled as The Devils. Variety was certainly conflicted when Häxan was turned loose in 1922 – “Wonderful though this picture is, it is absolutely unfit for public exhibition.”
It’s not Intolerance but Häxan boasts both a sizable cast and elaborate settings (at the time it was the most expensive film ever produced in Denmark). Yet the credits suggest it was something of a one man show – Christensen wrote and narrated (his hypnotic glower is the first thing the audience sees) and he acts up a storm – he plays the devil who...
- 10/12/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Tony Sokol Oct 10, 2019
The Addams Family is a cure for the commonplace, and directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon like talking about that and their new movie.
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, ookie, The Addams Family embraces them all. From back when Chas Addams' pen created them in The New Yorker through the '60s television series to the '90s cinematic double jolt, the batty bloodline brings macabre warmth to all generations. The upcoming 3D computer-animated reincarnation incorporates all that has come before and finds room for growth to introduce the family to impressionable young minds of any age. Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron star as Gomez and Morticia Addams, taking on the roles rendered equally iconic by John Astin and Carolyn Jones on TV and then by Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia in the '90s films.
While Christina Ricci stole the movies via grand theft performance, Chloë Grace Moretz...
The Addams Family is a cure for the commonplace, and directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon like talking about that and their new movie.
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, ookie, The Addams Family embraces them all. From back when Chas Addams' pen created them in The New Yorker through the '60s television series to the '90s cinematic double jolt, the batty bloodline brings macabre warmth to all generations. The upcoming 3D computer-animated reincarnation incorporates all that has come before and finds room for growth to introduce the family to impressionable young minds of any age. Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron star as Gomez and Morticia Addams, taking on the roles rendered equally iconic by John Astin and Carolyn Jones on TV and then by Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia in the '90s films.
While Christina Ricci stole the movies via grand theft performance, Chloë Grace Moretz...
- 10/1/2019
- Den of Geek
Pedro Bell, the artist responsible for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton album covers, has died. Both Clinton and bassist Bootsy Collins confirmed the news on social media, though a cause of death was not announced.
“We lost the Master Mind behind the Graphic’s [sic] & Artwork of Funkadelic,” Collins tweeted. “Mr. Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums. Thxs for yr service our brother.”
Clinton wrote on Facebook, “Rip to Funkadelic album cover illustrator Pedro Bell.
“We lost the Master Mind behind the Graphic’s [sic] & Artwork of Funkadelic,” Collins tweeted. “Mr. Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums. Thxs for yr service our brother.”
Clinton wrote on Facebook, “Rip to Funkadelic album cover illustrator Pedro Bell.
- 8/28/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
My trip to the unknown paths of Asian animation, courtesy of Fantasia, continues with a Japanese stop-motion animation, from a man whose bio includes the following terms: painter, sculptor, doll-obsessed model-maker, director of the studio Yamiken and rising talent of stop motion animation.
“Junk Head” screened as part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
In the distant future, mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation. However, in exchange, the ability to reproduce is lost. Clones were built to maintain the dwindling workforce, but 1200 years they rebelled, eventually inhabiting the lower depths of the world. The humans, suddenly finding a need to understand their subterranean-dwelling creations, launch an ecological study. What they discover is that the clones have transformed into a vast array of absurd and terrifying monstrosities, although the humans themselves have also changed much.
In that setting, the story revolves around one of those “explorers,” who finds...
“Junk Head” screened as part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
In the distant future, mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation. However, in exchange, the ability to reproduce is lost. Clones were built to maintain the dwindling workforce, but 1200 years they rebelled, eventually inhabiting the lower depths of the world. The humans, suddenly finding a need to understand their subterranean-dwelling creations, launch an ecological study. What they discover is that the clones have transformed into a vast array of absurd and terrifying monstrosities, although the humans themselves have also changed much.
In that setting, the story revolves around one of those “explorers,” who finds...
- 7/11/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
It’s “Fame directed by the Marquis de Sade,” it’s “a typically confrontational cocktail of music and horror … dropped on its audience like the bucket of blood from Carrie,” it’s “Step Up meets Enter the Void” — these were a few of the creative descriptions of Gaspar Noe’s dance-dance-devolution epic Climax coming out of the festival circuit press over the past 10 months. For folks familiar with the filmmaker’s back catalog, the notion that the golden child of the New French Extremity has filled his latest film with sex,...
- 2/28/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
"Dominiquie Vandenberg is a modern-day warrior poet whose fight choreography is like a ballet that he mixes with images from a brutal past. A natural talent that was born in blood." - Martin Scorsese Once described as Jean-Claude Van Damme envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch, Dominiquie Vandenberg has lead quite the life, he's been a world class martial arts champion, an elite member of the French Foreign Legion, he's honed his martial arts skills on the mats, on the street, in the ring, in the cage and on the door, while his Film & TV credits include everything from Mortal Kombat, Gangs of New York, Beowulf, Pitfighter , The Perfect Sleep and more. His most recent project is Legion Maxx directed by Jesse V Johnson (Triple...
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- 2/21/2019
- Screen Anarchy
This article about “Ruben Brandt, Collector” first appeared in the issue of TheWrap Magazine’s Oscar Nominations Preview issue.
It all started with Mimi. Milorad Krstic, a Yugoslavian-born artist who’d made a couple of short films and now lives in Budapest, was sketching one day in 2010 when he came up with a portrait of the woman who would become the inspiration for his first feature film, “Ruben Brandt, Collector.”
“I knew her name was Mimi as soon as I made the sketch,” he said. “And I knew she was an acrobat and a thief and a femme fatale and had a face like a horse but beautiful, and a neck like a giraffe.”
Also Read: 'Roma' and 'Cold War' Lead Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist
He pictured her at the center of a film about art, and then his imagination was off to the races. “I knew I...
It all started with Mimi. Milorad Krstic, a Yugoslavian-born artist who’d made a couple of short films and now lives in Budapest, was sketching one day in 2010 when he came up with a portrait of the woman who would become the inspiration for his first feature film, “Ruben Brandt, Collector.”
“I knew her name was Mimi as soon as I made the sketch,” he said. “And I knew she was an acrobat and a thief and a femme fatale and had a face like a horse but beautiful, and a neck like a giraffe.”
Also Read: 'Roma' and 'Cold War' Lead Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Shortlist
He pictured her at the center of a film about art, and then his imagination was off to the races. “I knew I...
- 1/9/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Hell,” the Dec. 26 episode of “Vikings.”
When leading man Travis Fimmel exited the fourth season of History’s “Vikings,” his character, Ragnar Lothbrok, left behind five distinct sons who were ready to carry on his legacy, while the series also announced the addition of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”) as the passionate bishop warrior Heahmund.
The latter character, who was written by series creator Michael Hirst with Meyers in mind, made a quick impression with viewers. From his introduction as a Vikings adversary, to his alliance with Ivar (Alex Hogh Andersen) in taking over Kattegat, to his falling in love with Vikings queen Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) and bringing her back to Wessex, his journey impacted many of the show’s existing characters.
That made Heahmund’s unexpected demise in battle on Wednesday’s “Hell” episode of the series seem all the more sudden.
When leading man Travis Fimmel exited the fourth season of History’s “Vikings,” his character, Ragnar Lothbrok, left behind five distinct sons who were ready to carry on his legacy, while the series also announced the addition of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”) as the passionate bishop warrior Heahmund.
The latter character, who was written by series creator Michael Hirst with Meyers in mind, made a quick impression with viewers. From his introduction as a Vikings adversary, to his alliance with Ivar (Alex Hogh Andersen) in taking over Kattegat, to his falling in love with Vikings queen Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) and bringing her back to Wessex, his journey impacted many of the show’s existing characters.
That made Heahmund’s unexpected demise in battle on Wednesday’s “Hell” episode of the series seem all the more sudden.
- 12/27/2018
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
My trip to the unknown paths of Asian animation, continues with a Japanese stop-motion animation, from a man whose bio includes the following terms: painter, sculptor, doll-obsessed model-maker, director of the studio Yamiken and rising talent of stop motion animation.
In the distant future, mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation. However, in exchange, the ability to reproduce is lost. Clones were built to maintain the dwindling workforce, but 1200 years they rebelled, eventually inhabiting the lower depths of the world. The humans, suddenly finding a need to understand their subterranean-dwelling creations, launch an ecological study. What they discover is that the clones have transformed into a vast array of absurd and terrifying monstrosities, although the humans themselves have also changed much.
In that setting, the story revolves around one of those “explorers,” who finds himself found by three strange creatures that get him to their boss, a doctor who transports his head into another body,...
In the distant future, mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation. However, in exchange, the ability to reproduce is lost. Clones were built to maintain the dwindling workforce, but 1200 years they rebelled, eventually inhabiting the lower depths of the world. The humans, suddenly finding a need to understand their subterranean-dwelling creations, launch an ecological study. What they discover is that the clones have transformed into a vast array of absurd and terrifying monstrosities, although the humans themselves have also changed much.
In that setting, the story revolves around one of those “explorers,” who finds himself found by three strange creatures that get him to their boss, a doctor who transports his head into another body,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
BAMcinématek is hosting a 10-film series exploring Japanese art and folklore post World War II called Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror starting this Friday, October 26th through November 1st. Also in today's Highlights: Dermot Mulroney joins the cast of Trick and an interview with Ted Welch and Chris Blake from All Light Will End.
Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror Screening Details: "From Friday, October 26 through Thursday, November 1, BAMcinématek presents Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror, a series of 10 films showcasing two strands of Japanese horror films that developed after World War II: kaiju monster movies and beautifully stylized ghost stories from Japanese folklore.
The series includes three classic kaiju films by director Ishirô Honda, beginning with the granddaddy of all nuclear warfare anxiety films, the original Godzilla (1954—Oct 26). The kaiju creature features continue with Mothra (1961—Oct 27), a psychedelic tale of a gigantic prehistoric and long dormant moth larvae...
Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror Screening Details: "From Friday, October 26 through Thursday, November 1, BAMcinématek presents Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror, a series of 10 films showcasing two strands of Japanese horror films that developed after World War II: kaiju monster movies and beautifully stylized ghost stories from Japanese folklore.
The series includes three classic kaiju films by director Ishirô Honda, beginning with the granddaddy of all nuclear warfare anxiety films, the original Godzilla (1954—Oct 26). The kaiju creature features continue with Mothra (1961—Oct 27), a psychedelic tale of a gigantic prehistoric and long dormant moth larvae...
- 10/23/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Barcelona — Projects “Deus Irae,” “The Occupant,” “9 Steps’ and ‘Fiesta” won prizes at the 4th Sitges Pitchbox, hosted by Spain’s Sitges Fantastic Film Festival in partnership with online platform Filmarket Hub and godfathered this year by Ron Perlman. Awards were announced Friday Oct. 5.
“Deus Irae” aims to be the feature debut of Argentine Pedro Cristiani, a co-writer of the acclaimed sci-fi short “Moebius.” A supernatural thriller and a follow-up to Cristiani’s short of the same name, “Deus Irae” follows Father Javier whose mandate is to examine and explain alleged miracles and Satanic events.
According to Cristiani, “the horror elements are explicit, but the visual treatment enhances its monstrous beauty.” Creature design is inspired by the creations of Dante Alighieri, Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon.
The first 26 minutes are already produced and the film expected to be completed in Argentina. It is backed by Cristiani, Simon Ratziel and Guido Volpi,...
“Deus Irae” aims to be the feature debut of Argentine Pedro Cristiani, a co-writer of the acclaimed sci-fi short “Moebius.” A supernatural thriller and a follow-up to Cristiani’s short of the same name, “Deus Irae” follows Father Javier whose mandate is to examine and explain alleged miracles and Satanic events.
According to Cristiani, “the horror elements are explicit, but the visual treatment enhances its monstrous beauty.” Creature design is inspired by the creations of Dante Alighieri, Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon.
The first 26 minutes are already produced and the film expected to be completed in Argentina. It is backed by Cristiani, Simon Ratziel and Guido Volpi,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
It took six years for Andrei Tarkovsky’s somber epic Andrei Rublev to be publicly released in the former Ussr. By the time people flocked to sold-out Moscow theaters in 1971—nine years after Tarkovsky’s feature debut Ivan’s Childhood nabbed the Golden Lion at the 1962 Venice Festival, and six after Rublev’s production wrapped in 1965—the cultural Thaw granted under Khrushchev’s leadership had frozen over. Judged too controversial by Soviet authorities—all the more so as the Ussr braced for the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution—the film was shelved after a single screening at Moscow’s Dom Kino, chopped from 205 to 186 minutes (a version Tarkovsky would later approve) and only sent abroad in 1969, when Cannes squeezed it in a 4:00 am out of competition screening that earned Tarkovsky the edition’s Fipresci award.For audiences nurtured on bombastic patriotic epics concerned primarily with the need to trace...
- 8/23/2018
- MUBI
With influences ranging from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Stanley Kubrick, Lee Alexander McQueen built quite the legacy before his passing in February 2010.
The trailer for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s new documentary “McQueen” starts out by saying, “No one discovered Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen discovered himself.”
After leaving school at the age of 16, the designer, who was aware of his homosexuality at an early age, started working on Savile Row for tailors Anderson & Sheppard and then Gieves & Hawkes.
Continue reading ‘McQueen’ Trailer: New Doc Digs Deep Into Life And Career Of The Controversial Fashion Designer at The Playlist.
The trailer for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s new documentary “McQueen” starts out by saying, “No one discovered Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen discovered himself.”
After leaving school at the age of 16, the designer, who was aware of his homosexuality at an early age, started working on Savile Row for tailors Anderson & Sheppard and then Gieves & Hawkes.
Continue reading ‘McQueen’ Trailer: New Doc Digs Deep Into Life And Career Of The Controversial Fashion Designer at The Playlist.
- 6/1/2018
- by Jamie Rogers
- The Playlist
Marrying the sensitivity of “Spirited Away” to the lushness of “The Legend of Korra” and the narrative coherence of a lucid dream, “Big Fish & Begonia” is the very rarest of Chinese exports: An animated film that was made for adults. Co-directed by Zhang Chun and Liang Xuan, two thirtysomethings who worked on the movie for more than a decade before their social media campaign caught the attention of some legit financiers, this extreme labor of love eventually managed to conquer a marketplace that has almost zero appreciation for such art.
While America at least has the likes of Pixar and Laika to offset the really cynical stuff, with mainstream oddities like “Sausage Party” and “Isle of Dogs” there to remind us that cartoons aren’t just for kids, Chinese audiences are pretty much just stuck with the “Boonie Bears” franchise (and that’s hardly an exaggeration: the country’s fourth,...
While America at least has the likes of Pixar and Laika to offset the really cynical stuff, with mainstream oddities like “Sausage Party” and “Isle of Dogs” there to remind us that cartoons aren’t just for kids, Chinese audiences are pretty much just stuck with the “Boonie Bears” franchise (and that’s hardly an exaggeration: the country’s fourth,...
- 4/6/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Noordbrabants museum’s historic Bosch show gets the Exhibition on Screen documentary treatment
Related: Hieronymus Bosch review – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
This year’s groundbreaking Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in the Netherlands is an ideal candidate for the Exhibition on Screen treatment. In the most comprehensive collection of his work ever mounted, the tiny Noordbrabants museum managed to secure 17 of Bosch’s 24 extant paintings and 19 of his 20 drawings. With nothing to offer other museums in exchange for the loans, they instead paid them back by doing analysis of the works.
Related: Hieronymus Bosch review – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
This year’s groundbreaking Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in the Netherlands is an ideal candidate for the Exhibition on Screen treatment. In the most comprehensive collection of his work ever mounted, the tiny Noordbrabants museum managed to secure 17 of Bosch’s 24 extant paintings and 19 of his 20 drawings. With nothing to offer other museums in exchange for the loans, they instead paid them back by doing analysis of the works.
- 11/3/2016
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
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