Category Archives: Film

Staring Out to Sea…

But not very far.

I could not take my eyes off the distance that the pink reflections travelled away from the mooring buoy.
It’s a sort of reflection upon a reflection. Click the picture to make it move. (Requires Quicktime)

Overdubbed Classic Film Clips

Three clips from classic films get the treatment from the voiceover artists who provide the voices for SpongeBob Squarepants.
Much hilarity ensues.

Link to QuickTime….

100 years of Russian Cinema

The Russian Archive Cinema Season (1908 -1925) will be showing in London on the 3rd, 10th & 24th February 2008 at the Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon St, London W1
Tickets: 0871 703 3989
www.curzoncinemas.com
The highlight for animation fans will be The Cameraman’s Revenge, showing at noon on the 24th Feb. Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, this 12 [...]

Donkey Xote Released on 5th of December

Filmax Animation are releasing the animated feature film Donkey Xote*, on the 5th of December.
The trailer (below) gave me a little shudder when I saw this CGI animated film featuring a noisy, ugly, fat bloke accompanied by an annoying sidekick who also happens to be a (wait for it…) donkey.

Some of the concept work of [...]

Abstract Animation by Dennis H. Miller

Looking at Miller’s animations at his website (Flash alert!) I can’t help but get the feeling that I have stumbled upon a series of televised chats between members of an alien civilisation. There are signs of a very advanced intelligence on show, but however hard I look, I cannot for the life of [...]

Sylvain Chomet on Jacques Tati

A couple of short clips from a recent radio programme - `Everyman Magnified´ - about Jacques Tati on Radio 4. (Where else!)
Sylvain Chomet discusses Tati’s (Foley) sound effects in the first clip, and, in the second clip we hear him talk about making an animated version of the 50 year old screenplay by Tati [...]

 
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The Best Stage Exit in The World. Evar.

It starts with an innocuous ditty about potato salad, and by the time these three have taken their exit, your jaw is on the floor.

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This Is The End, My Friend. The End….

One of the mantras in screenwriting is that you have to know the end before you can write the beginning. Or the middle.

(If you click this thumbnail, it will get slightly bigger, but not much!)
This set on Flickr concentrates on the very, very end of the film. In truth, it’s the bit that really [...]

Fancy A Nice Job In Nice, Anyone?

There are a number of job openings now at Bibo Films, in Nice (S. France) as the studio ramps up production crew for their feature film, A Monster In Paris.

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The only piece of art I could find to attach to this post is this pre-production painting by the master, Patrice [...]

W.o.W.!

The movie Titanic earned a total U.S. domestic gross of $402.6 million.
World of Warcraft (W.o.W.) makes Blizzard a fifth of that every month.
And no, I have never played an online game in my life.
Link to U.S. WoW
Link to EU WoW
“There’s money in them thar goblins”

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