This weekend SIFF is packing their cinema with rare animated features and series of short films for Animation Fascination. Check out my previous post for a detailed listing. I’m personally going to try to attend the Animation for Adults tomorrow night, NFB Animations Saturday at 5:30PM, the Mary & Max feature after it, and possibly [...]
Persepolis, kick-ass animated film directed by Iranian/French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, is screening at Central Cinema as part of the ‘Awesome Movies Directed by Women’ series hosted by the Stranger’s Lindy West! Wow, that was a long sentence, but it had lots of good stuff in it. It’s screening on Wednesday February 9th at 7PM [...]
Unfortunately I’ll be out of town, but this Saturday is the one-day 2D or Not 2D Animation Festival at the IMAX Theatre in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. The one thing I’ll really be sad to miss is the animated feature My Dog Tulip from 2009 that’s playing at 8PM. You can buy tickets [...]
I was lucky enough to be invited to the preview screening of Tales from Earthsea (preview of its US release – it officially opened on Tuesday, while it came out in Europe a couple years ago at least) at the Harvard Exit Theatre. I knew there was controversy surrounding it, and I wanted to like [...]
A couple nights ago I saw this little gem at the Metro cinema in the U-District. It is playing definitely until Thu, June 3rd. So GO now before it leaves. Trust me, you want to see this one on the big screen. The Secret of Kells is an animated feature out of Ireland (from studio [...]
Animation is in the house this month! The Secret of Kells, amazing looking Oscar-nominated animated feature (animated old-school cels way) from Ireland, is out NOW at the Metro Cinema in the U-District. It runs until Thursday May 20th (it may run later but don’t count on it). Go to see this NOW before it leaves [...]
So I recently saw Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland in 3D at the IMAX Theater here in Seattle, WA, USA, and it reminded me of all the other incarnations of Alice that have been brought to life in the history of cinema and animation. There’s the 1970s live action Alice that I don’t really remember, [...]
You may recall my short ‘A Moment’s Reverie’ was included in a program of experimental films called Animated Art, curated by Salise Hughes, and screened at the NW Film Forum here in Seattle on January 7th. I am happy to announce that the Animated Art program is going on the road, first stop, the NW [...]
I recently came across this nice NPR interview with Wes Anderson, director of the stop-motion feature Fantastic Mr. Fox, originally broadcast in November of last year: “I sort of had this thought that … I was going to make the script and work on the sets and then sort of prepare the shots and have [...]
I do not understand Czech but I still really want to see this movie: Thank you Stefan Gruber for bringing it to my attention.