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Games: Review:Machinarium

25 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Machinarium, a point-and-click adventure game set in a strangely recognizable robot city, is one of the most beautiful games to hit home computers in a long time. It achieves this with the barest possible technology: colored pencil drawings, ethereal music, and crude pictograph dialogue. The atmosphere is almost filmic, like Metropolis and Jean-Pierre Jeunet filtered through The Triplets Of Belleville, but the gameplay is joyously inspired.  The story of a little robot who must escape from prison, find his girlfriend, and prevent a bomb blast is told through puzzles. Many are single-screen affairs in which everything you need is before ... »

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Take a Peek at 'Kerity'

23 September 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

So apparently, there’s a new animated film coming out in France this holiday season: Kerity: La Maison Des Contes, which translates to… something that doesn’t quite make sense to me. Nevertheless, the animation looks wonderful.

The drawing style is kind of surreal, but the textures and colors are vibrant, and the story sounds quite charming: there‘s a young girl who loves to read, and her main friends are the characters of the books she reads, who come to life and step off the pages to join her.

The film does not appear to have a U.S. release date, but you can check out the trailer over at Twitch.

Hopefully, this is a film that will find its ways to North American shores, since it looks family-friendly enough to attract a mass audience. If the success of The Triplets of Belleville was any indication, a market for high-quality animated films, »

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Friday Harvest: Antichrist, The Road, and more!

11 September 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy! Picture Gallery of the Week: The Illusionist Jacques Tati, one of the finest filmmakers of all time (and a personal favorite of mine) gets the animation treatment with the upcoming The Illusionist. Sylvain Chomet, who did sharp work with The Triplets of Belleville, is adapting an unreleased Tati script about an aging, increasingly irrelevant magician who has... »

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New Images From Sylvain Chomet and Jacque Tati’s The Illusionist

9 September 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Creating a ‘traditionally animated’ feature, which is to say a film created by drawing 2D images rather than tweaking 3D models, either physically or virtually, is most definitely a very time consuming exercise (I take issue with the term ‘traditionally animated’ as I’m not sure what’s untraditional about the art of stop-motion). Unsurprising, then, that the last time I saw a new image from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist was literally years ago. Finally, a batch of gorgeous new images have surfaced, and you can see them all below the break. Chomet, if you don’t know the name, was the director of The Triplets of Belleville, aka Belleville Rendezvous, a French toon that made something of a splash back in 2003, not least by garnering effusive praise from some big cheeses at Pixar. Here are the four pictures, as freshly released by Pathe. You might recognise the likeness »

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First Images for Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist

9 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Further proof that Sylvain Chomet's 2D animated The Illusionist is close to being ready (if rushed it could have played at Tiff), the pic may be put on ice for a 2010 festival release, but slashfilm.com have found a first set of images (to add to this one). No North American distributor has picked up the rights yet.  The pic is based on an unproduced screenplay by the late, great Jacques Tati, this see a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever. Themes deal with aging and disillusionment. With a Cannes 2010 premiere, the film will avoid a confrontation with this year's frontrunner: Pixar's Up. In 2003, Finding Nemo was favored over Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville for best animated picture. »

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Belleville Rendez-vous Movie Review

14 March 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

Now it may surprise you that there are animated films out there, somewhere hiding in the corner of non mainstream cinema, that do not come from the walking, fuzzy, child loving Pixar monolith that rules the animation world with an iron fist. Yes, before the days of Monster's Inc and Finding Nemo, there was animation that wasn't full blown CGI, where people didn't strive for realism, more an artistic style that matched their stories and had enough charm to fill a hundred Buzz Lightyear's. I'm talking of days of wonder, excitment and unpredictability. I'm talking of the days of Belleville Rendez... »

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