Hitler’S Folly Bill Plympton Studios Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: C- Director: Bill Plympton Written by: Bill Plympton Cast: Nate Steinwachs, Dana Ashbrook, Michael Sullivan, Kristin Samuelson, Andreas Hykade, Morton Hall Millen, David Shakopi, Kevin Kolack, Edie Bales, Alfred Rosenblatt, Ari Taub, James Hancock Screened at: Free Link, NYC, 6/3/16 Opens: June 1, 2016 Mel Brooks, who directed the film “The Producers”—which features the hilarious, boundary-shattering song “Springtime for Hitler”–can breathe a sigh of relief. His reputation as the creator of what is arguably the best, most audacious laugh-fest about the 20th Century’s worst tyrant easily matching Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 “The Great Dictator,” stands without a real modern challenge. [ Read More ]
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- 6/21/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The European Film Academy’s masterclass will this year will focus on animation.
Held by author, designer and director Andreas Hykade, the Efa Master Class 2013 Animation Today will be dedicated to modern animation.
From September 9-15, participants will form a team and create an animated film from original idea to completed film.
Participants can come from any field, be it independent animation, games or commercial animation, and can work in various techniques, from 2D and 3D to puppets or pixilation.
As well as group sessions, screenings, case studies and lectures, the workshop will be feature animation filmmakers who will share their individual approach to the respective “topic of the day”.
Bavarian animator and professor Hykade has made films since the mid-1990s and his titles include We Lived In Grass (1996), Ring Of Fire (2000), The Runt (2007), Tom & The Slice Of Bread With Strawberry Jam & Honey (2009) and Love & Theft (2010).
Supported by the Media Programme of the EU and the...
Held by author, designer and director Andreas Hykade, the Efa Master Class 2013 Animation Today will be dedicated to modern animation.
From September 9-15, participants will form a team and create an animated film from original idea to completed film.
Participants can come from any field, be it independent animation, games or commercial animation, and can work in various techniques, from 2D and 3D to puppets or pixilation.
As well as group sessions, screenings, case studies and lectures, the workshop will be feature animation filmmakers who will share their individual approach to the respective “topic of the day”.
Bavarian animator and professor Hykade has made films since the mid-1990s and his titles include We Lived In Grass (1996), Ring Of Fire (2000), The Runt (2007), Tom & The Slice Of Bread With Strawberry Jam & Honey (2009) and Love & Theft (2010).
Supported by the Media Programme of the EU and the...
- 6/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Day three of the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival promises more great films and an appearance at the Hi-Pointe by director Joe Dante. And there are still 8 days to go!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Saturday, November 10th
Director Jennifer Lynch
A Fall From Grace Program is at 11:00 am at the Tivoli Theatre – A Free Event Sliff guest Jennifer Lynch (Chained.) has plans to shoot her next film, A Fall from Grace, in St. Louis. Post-Dispatch film critic Joe Williams leads a...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Saturday, November 10th
Director Jennifer Lynch
A Fall From Grace Program is at 11:00 am at the Tivoli Theatre – A Free Event Sliff guest Jennifer Lynch (Chained.) has plans to shoot her next film, A Fall from Grace, in St. Louis. Post-Dispatch film critic Joe Williams leads a...
- 11/10/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Film Lineup Set For Inaugural Palo Alto International Film Festival
Palo Alto, CA . The Palo Alto International Film Festival (Paiff) has announced its film program for the 2011 festival. The lineup includes 20 features and 74 short films curated from award-winning films and film festival favorites that exemplify Paiff.s theme of innovation in art, film and technology.
Paiff proudly presents a lineup that challenges the art form, taking creative risks with technology in films like Braden King.s cross-platform feature .Here,. to the artistically inventive .Bombay Beach. by music video director Alma Har.el to documentaries like .Something Ventured. which delves into the world of Venture Capital firms.
.We.re seeing a new movement emerging . films are trying to live outside the cinema. They.re breaking out of traditional storytelling structures,. said Paiff.s Director Programming Alf Seccombe. .This festival spotlights the creative risk-taking that is inherent in innovation..
The 2011 festival kicks...
Palo Alto, CA . The Palo Alto International Film Festival (Paiff) has announced its film program for the 2011 festival. The lineup includes 20 features and 74 short films curated from award-winning films and film festival favorites that exemplify Paiff.s theme of innovation in art, film and technology.
Paiff proudly presents a lineup that challenges the art form, taking creative risks with technology in films like Braden King.s cross-platform feature .Here,. to the artistically inventive .Bombay Beach. by music video director Alma Har.el to documentaries like .Something Ventured. which delves into the world of Venture Capital firms.
.We.re seeing a new movement emerging . films are trying to live outside the cinema. They.re breaking out of traditional storytelling structures,. said Paiff.s Director Programming Alf Seccombe. .This festival spotlights the creative risk-taking that is inherent in innovation..
The 2011 festival kicks...
- 8/15/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The National Film Board of Canada (Nfb) reports that the winner of the 6th Nfb Online Short Film Contest @ Cannes, "Crash! Bang! Wallow?", was awarded to Jon Dunleavy and Keith Wilson-Singer of the UK.
This year, the 10 shortlisted films generated more than 2 million views in 14 days – on the Nfb’s English and French YouTube channels. This sixth edition was organized by the Nfb in collaboration with the Short Film Corner and in association with YouTube.
"...In partnering the contest, the Nfb continues to encourage the creators of bold and innovative shorts..."
The public had 14 days to vote online for the best short film on the YouTube site, recording more than 20,000 votes internationally.
Winning short, "Crash! Bang! Wallow?", is an animated film that "...tells the tale of ex-Hollywood stuntman 'Larry LeTan' and his fight to find a place in the modern world..."
Filmmakers Dunleavy and Wilson-Singer will receive a digital...
This year, the 10 shortlisted films generated more than 2 million views in 14 days – on the Nfb’s English and French YouTube channels. This sixth edition was organized by the Nfb in collaboration with the Short Film Corner and in association with YouTube.
"...In partnering the contest, the Nfb continues to encourage the creators of bold and innovative shorts..."
The public had 14 days to vote online for the best short film on the YouTube site, recording more than 20,000 votes internationally.
Winning short, "Crash! Bang! Wallow?", is an animated film that "...tells the tale of ex-Hollywood stuntman 'Larry LeTan' and his fight to find a place in the modern world..."
Filmmakers Dunleavy and Wilson-Singer will receive a digital...
- 5/20/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The National Film Board of Canada (Nfb) reports that the winner of the 6th Nfb Online Short Film Contest @ Cannes, Crash! Bang! Wallow?, was awarded to Jon Dunleavy and Keith Wilson-Singer of the UK. This year, the 10 shortlisted films generated more than 2 million views in 14 days . on the Nfb.s English and French YouTube channels. This sixth edition was organized by the Nfb in collaboration with the Short Film Corner and in association with YouTube. "...In partnering the contest, the Nfb continues to encourage the creators of bold and innovative shorts..." The public had 14 days to vote online for the best short film on the YouTube site, with more than 20,000 votes received. Winning short, Crash! Bang! Wallow?, is an animated film that tells the tale of ex-Hollywood stuntman 'Larry LeTan' and his fight to find a place in the modern world. Filmmakers Dunleavy and Wilson-Singer will receive a digital...
- 5/20/2010
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
By Michael Atkinson
Though it may seem unfair at first, let's pick up Joe Swanberg's "Hannah Takes the Stairs," heft it in our grips for a moment, and then use it to beat this thing called "mumblecore" to a pulp. Implicitly a kind of low-budge, ultra-spontaneous, all-hdv answer to the glossy fatuousness of current American film, mumblecore has a number of inherent problems (the least of which is its inherited moniker; using "-core" as a suffix in this way has no meaning). The fad's general strategy . naturally lit shaky-cam coverage of semi-inarticulate twentysomethings with bedhead speaking entirely in casual small talk and having or ruining relationships . is easy to peg as narcissistic and lazy, if you're not finely attuned to the genre's nonchalant sense of cool. But more than that, mumblecore movies strive for an interpersonal intimacy they never achieve, because intimacy requires skill, real acting and visual wisdom,...
Though it may seem unfair at first, let's pick up Joe Swanberg's "Hannah Takes the Stairs," heft it in our grips for a moment, and then use it to beat this thing called "mumblecore" to a pulp. Implicitly a kind of low-budge, ultra-spontaneous, all-hdv answer to the glossy fatuousness of current American film, mumblecore has a number of inherent problems (the least of which is its inherited moniker; using "-core" as a suffix in this way has no meaning). The fad's general strategy . naturally lit shaky-cam coverage of semi-inarticulate twentysomethings with bedhead speaking entirely in casual small talk and having or ruining relationships . is easy to peg as narcissistic and lazy, if you're not finely attuned to the genre's nonchalant sense of cool. But more than that, mumblecore movies strive for an interpersonal intimacy they never achieve, because intimacy requires skill, real acting and visual wisdom,...
- 4/22/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
PARIS -- Toons from the U.K. swept the awards at the 31st Annecy Animated Film Festival Saturday night, which wrapped along with the parallel 17th International Mifa animated film market.
The Fest's top prize, the Cristal for best feature, went to Christopher Nielsen's "Free Jimmy", a U.K.-Norway co-production. Samuel and Frederic Guillaume's "Max & Co," another U.K. co-production with Switzerland, Belgium and France, took the audience award for best feature. Japanese Mamoru Hosoda's "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" received a special distinction in the feature category.
The U.K. also took home every Cristal award in the television category. Christopher Sadler's "Still Life" from the "Shaun the Sheep" series won best TV production, Kitty Taylor took the special award for a TV series for "I Will Be Especially Very Careful" from "Charlie and Lola", and Kez Margrie's "The Wrong Trainers" won the best TV special prize.
The U.K.'s Tom Brown and Daniel Benjamin Gray won the award for best graduation film and Kez Margrie, also from the U.K., took home the Unicef Prize for "The Wrong Trainers". Other winners include Andreas Hykade's "The Runt" from Germany (Fipresci Award), Gregoire Sivan's "Premier Voyage" from France (Canal Plus Award) and Serge Elissalde's "The Man on the Moon" also from France (Sacem Award).
The Fest's top prize, the Cristal for best feature, went to Christopher Nielsen's "Free Jimmy", a U.K.-Norway co-production. Samuel and Frederic Guillaume's "Max & Co," another U.K. co-production with Switzerland, Belgium and France, took the audience award for best feature. Japanese Mamoru Hosoda's "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" received a special distinction in the feature category.
The U.K. also took home every Cristal award in the television category. Christopher Sadler's "Still Life" from the "Shaun the Sheep" series won best TV production, Kitty Taylor took the special award for a TV series for "I Will Be Especially Very Careful" from "Charlie and Lola", and Kez Margrie's "The Wrong Trainers" won the best TV special prize.
The U.K.'s Tom Brown and Daniel Benjamin Gray won the award for best graduation film and Kez Margrie, also from the U.K., took home the Unicef Prize for "The Wrong Trainers". Other winners include Andreas Hykade's "The Runt" from Germany (Fipresci Award), Gregoire Sivan's "Premier Voyage" from France (Canal Plus Award) and Serge Elissalde's "The Man on the Moon" also from France (Sacem Award).
- 6/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
OTTAWA -- Michaela Pavlatova's musical erotica fantasy The Carnival of Animals, Andreas Hykade's The Runt, George Griffin's deadpan comedy It Pains Me to Say This, and Run Wrake's adult fairy tale Rabbit are among the 106 films from 20 countries competing in the Ottawa International Animation Festival that organizers unveiled Wednesday at a media conference. Swedish animator Jonas Odell's "Never Like the First Time!" and Joanna Quinn's "Dreams and Desires: Family Ties," which picked up the top prize at both the Annecy and Zagreb animation festivals earlier this year, will also unspool in the competitive section with 16 categories, ranging from features to promotional animation to Internet works. The 30th anniversary edition of North America's largest and the world's second-biggest animation festival will also feature retrospectives of the works of Russian Konstantin Bronzit, former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett, New York experimental animator Jeff Scher, Italian Bruno Bozzetto and Canadian John Straiton.
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