Animated feature world premiered at Toronto earlier this month.
Poland is submitting animated featureThe Peasants as its candidate for best International feature film for next year’s Academy Awards.
Co-directors Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman used the same painting animation technique as in their previous film Loving Vincent forThe Peasants.
The Peasants had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, with international sales being handled by New Europe Film Sales.
Last weekend saw The Peasants win its first ever audience prize in Poland when festival-goers at the Polish Film Festival...
Poland is submitting animated featureThe Peasants as its candidate for best International feature film for next year’s Academy Awards.
Co-directors Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman used the same painting animation technique as in their previous film Loving Vincent forThe Peasants.
The Peasants had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, with international sales being handled by New Europe Film Sales.
Last weekend saw The Peasants win its first ever audience prize in Poland when festival-goers at the Polish Film Festival...
- 9/25/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Criterion Channel’s July lineup is an across-the-board display of strengths, ranging as it does from very specific programming cues to actor retrospectives and hardly ignoring the strength of Criterion Editions. Surely much fun’s to be had with “In the Ring,” a decade-spanning, 16-film curation of boxing pictures—Raging Bull and Fat City, of course, with some you forget are boxing movies (Rocco and His Brothers) and others you’ve likely never seen at all (count me excited for King Vidor’s The Champ). “Noir in Color” brilliantly upends common conception of a drama (and gives you excuse to see Nicholas Ray’s Party Girl); Setsuko Hara films are gathered into a handy collection; and Blake Edwards gets six.
On the Criterion Editions front they’ve gone all out: the Before trilogy, Alex Cox’s Walker, Leave Her to Heaven, Shaft, Destry Rides Again, Raging Bull, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...
On the Criterion Editions front they’ve gone all out: the Before trilogy, Alex Cox’s Walker, Leave Her to Heaven, Shaft, Destry Rides Again, Raging Bull, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Wes Anderson selected Suzie Templeton’s Oscar-winning Peter & The Wolf to screen in the Animation First Festival in New York
Suzie Templeton’s 2008 Oscar-winning Animated Short Peter & The Wolf is a timeless masterpiece. Selected by Wes Anderson, the first American Special Guest at the French Institute Alliance Française fourth annual Animation First Festival in New York it screens along with three other animated films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, and two shorts, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982) and Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), co-directed by Faith Hubley and John Hubley. Templeton’s short Dog won Best New British Animation at the Edinburgh...
Suzie Templeton’s 2008 Oscar-winning Animated Short Peter & The Wolf is a timeless masterpiece. Selected by Wes Anderson, the first American Special Guest at the French Institute Alliance Française fourth annual Animation First Festival in New York it screens along with three other animated films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, and two shorts, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982) and Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), co-directed by Faith Hubley and John Hubley. Templeton’s short Dog won Best New British Animation at the Edinburgh...
- 2/12/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rémi Chayé’s Calamity, A Childhood Of Martha Jane Cannary
The French Institute Alliance Française in New York has announced that Rémi Chayé’s Calamity, A Childhood Of Martha Jane Cannary, co-written with Sandra Tosello and Fabrice de Costil will open the fourth annual Animation First Festival. Calamity Jane is voiced by Salomé Boulven. Rémi Chayé joins Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle), Michel Ocelot (Kirikou And The Sorceress) and Jean-François Laguionie to become the fourth guest of honour. Chayé’s 2015 film Long Way North (Tout En Haut Du monde), written by Claire Paoletti and Patricia Valeix with a screenplay by Fabrice de Costil will also screen during the festival. Wes Anderson, the first American special guest, has selected four animated films that inspired him.
Wes Anderson selects Suzie Templeton’s Oscar-winning Peter & The Wolf
Rémi Chayé: “It's an honour to bring Calamity Jane [Crystal Award winner for best feature at the.
The French Institute Alliance Française in New York has announced that Rémi Chayé’s Calamity, A Childhood Of Martha Jane Cannary, co-written with Sandra Tosello and Fabrice de Costil will open the fourth annual Animation First Festival. Calamity Jane is voiced by Salomé Boulven. Rémi Chayé joins Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle), Michel Ocelot (Kirikou And The Sorceress) and Jean-François Laguionie to become the fourth guest of honour. Chayé’s 2015 film Long Way North (Tout En Haut Du monde), written by Claire Paoletti and Patricia Valeix with a screenplay by Fabrice de Costil will also screen during the festival. Wes Anderson, the first American special guest, has selected four animated films that inspired him.
Wes Anderson selects Suzie Templeton’s Oscar-winning Peter & The Wolf
Rémi Chayé: “It's an honour to bring Calamity Jane [Crystal Award winner for best feature at the.
- 1/15/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Wes Anderson selects David Hand’s Bambi
Wes Anderson has selected four films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982), and two shorts, Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), and Suzie Templeton’s Peter & The Wolf (2006) to screen during the French Institute Alliance Française Animation First Festival in New York, co-curated by Delphine Selles-Alvarez and Catherine Lamairesse.
Mathieu Amalric: Renaissance Man poster featuring Fantastic Mr. Fox and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle) was the honoured guest of the inaugural Animation First Festival in 2018, Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress) and Jean-François Laguionie were the guests of honour in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
Fi:af President Marie-Monique Steckel: “This year's Animation First promises to be the richest in the Festival's history. We are delighted to have so many exciting new films, cult classics,...
Wes Anderson has selected four films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982), and two shorts, Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), and Suzie Templeton’s Peter & The Wolf (2006) to screen during the French Institute Alliance Française Animation First Festival in New York, co-curated by Delphine Selles-Alvarez and Catherine Lamairesse.
Mathieu Amalric: Renaissance Man poster featuring Fantastic Mr. Fox and Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle) was the honoured guest of the inaugural Animation First Festival in 2018, Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress) and Jean-François Laguionie were the guests of honour in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
Fi:af President Marie-Monique Steckel: “This year's Animation First promises to be the richest in the Festival's history. We are delighted to have so many exciting new films, cult classics,...
- 1/2/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paris-based arthouse outfit Autour de Minuit, producer of Oscar-winning toon short “Logorama,” will produce toon feature “Spitsbergen” and medium-length “Return to Nix,” both to be directed by Suzie Templeton, who won as Academy Award and Annecy Cristal for”Peter & the Wolf”). “Spitsbergen”marks Templeton’s much-awaited feature debut, currently in development.
The news comes as Annecy awarded a Special Jury prize to the Autour de Minuit-produced short “Homeless Home,“ from Spain’s Alberto Vázquez (“Birdboy: the Forgotten Children”), a heady B & W mix of fantasy genre, casual, modern-day dialog and a horror at blood lust and cruelty.
Yesterday, a second Autour de Minuit short, Geoffroy de Crécy’s “Empty Places” – a hypnotic portrait of a world in which humdrum machines continue to function, though human beings have disappeared – took the Festivals Connexion Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes prize, in partnership with the Lumières Numériques & Mèche Courte Award.
“Spitsbergen” turns on two kids living together...
The news comes as Annecy awarded a Special Jury prize to the Autour de Minuit-produced short “Homeless Home,“ from Spain’s Alberto Vázquez (“Birdboy: the Forgotten Children”), a heady B & W mix of fantasy genre, casual, modern-day dialog and a horror at blood lust and cruelty.
Yesterday, a second Autour de Minuit short, Geoffroy de Crécy’s “Empty Places” – a hypnotic portrait of a world in which humdrum machines continue to function, though human beings have disappeared – took the Festivals Connexion Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes prize, in partnership with the Lumières Numériques & Mèche Courte Award.
“Spitsbergen” turns on two kids living together...
- 6/20/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Initiative selects child-focused scripts for development.
The 4th edition of the Cinekid Script Lab, which focuses on the development of scripts for children’s films, has picked 12 projects.
The event takes places over four months, commencing at the child-focused film festival Cinekid in Amsterdam in October and ending at the Berlinale in February.
Six of the selected projects were nominated by partnering institutes, and this year for the first time an open call was issued, with a further six projects chosen from that pool.
Script Lab is backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme and is organised in partnership with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute.
Full list of projects:
Nominated by Norwegian Film Institute
Free
Writers: Guro Ekornholmen, Anniken Fjesme
Production country: Norway
Nominated by Flanders Audiovisual Fund
My Dad Is A Sausage
Writer: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, [link...
The 4th edition of the Cinekid Script Lab, which focuses on the development of scripts for children’s films, has picked 12 projects.
The event takes places over four months, commencing at the child-focused film festival Cinekid in Amsterdam in October and ending at the Berlinale in February.
Six of the selected projects were nominated by partnering institutes, and this year for the first time an open call was issued, with a further six projects chosen from that pool.
Script Lab is backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme and is organised in partnership with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute.
Full list of projects:
Nominated by Norwegian Film Institute
Free
Writers: Guro Ekornholmen, Anniken Fjesme
Production country: Norway
Nominated by Flanders Audiovisual Fund
My Dad Is A Sausage
Writer: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, [link...
- 8/9/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Pulp singer delights his young audience at Royal Festival Hall with his narration of the Russian composer's children's story
Being asked to narrate Peter and the Wolf is like being cast as Lear: the ultimate sign you have pricked a certain layer of the nation's consciousness. David Bowie has done it. So has Peter Ustinov. Ditto Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley and David Attenborough. It was only a matter of time, then, before Jarvis Cocker was given the honour.
Like those that have gone before him, the Pulp singer is the owner of a voice you'd recognise underwater, a deep and warm tenor with vowels as flat as his native Sheffield is hilly.
"Hello everyone. I'm Jarvis," he said with a salute, as he strode on to the stage at London's Royal Festival Hall. The introduction was not superfluous. While Cocker will be remembered by anyone over 30 after his bottom sabotaged...
Being asked to narrate Peter and the Wolf is like being cast as Lear: the ultimate sign you have pricked a certain layer of the nation's consciousness. David Bowie has done it. So has Peter Ustinov. Ditto Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley and David Attenborough. It was only a matter of time, then, before Jarvis Cocker was given the honour.
Like those that have gone before him, the Pulp singer is the owner of a voice you'd recognise underwater, a deep and warm tenor with vowels as flat as his native Sheffield is hilly.
"Hello everyone. I'm Jarvis," he said with a salute, as he strode on to the stage at London's Royal Festival Hall. The introduction was not superfluous. While Cocker will be remembered by anyone over 30 after his bottom sabotaged...
- 12/30/2010
- by Helen Pidd
- The Guardian - Film News
Sergei Prokofiev's children's symphony Peter And The Wolf has been adapted to film and television multiple times, and has become such a common part of elementary-school curricula that it hardly seems worth revisiting the piece yet again. But there's never been a Peter And The Wolf like Suzie Templeton's Oscar-winning 2006 short. It isn't just that Templeton's Peter is a little darker than most; it also adds a layer of thematic depth that's about more than identifying which instrument represents which character. Opening with a lengthy silent sequence—and eschewing narration throughout its 30-minute running time—Templeton's "Peter & The Wolf" makes its Russian setting more paramount, emphasizing the hardscrabble existence of the adventurous Peter and his overprotective grandfather. This Peter wears an expression of burned-in resentment over his lot in life, though during the time he spends frolicking with his animal friends in the woods, Peter comes to realize that.
- 1/7/2009
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Latest: Wallace And Gromit creators Aardman Animations have swept the board at this year's British Animation Awards.
The British production company won gongs in all four categories it was nominated, including Best Short Film for The Pearce Sisters, as well as Best Children's Series and Children's Choice for Shaun The Sheep: Still Life.
Aardman was also recognised with the Best Commissioned New Media Animation for The Peculiar Adventures of Hector at London's National Film Theatre.
Animator Suzie Templeton, who won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last month, took home the Best TV Special award for her creation Peter And The Wolf.
The judging panel said the "intensely moving film has outstanding character design, cinematography and animation that create a palpable sense of place".
The British production company won gongs in all four categories it was nominated, including Best Short Film for The Pearce Sisters, as well as Best Children's Series and Children's Choice for Shaun The Sheep: Still Life.
Aardman was also recognised with the Best Commissioned New Media Animation for The Peculiar Adventures of Hector at London's National Film Theatre.
Animator Suzie Templeton, who won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last month, took home the Best TV Special award for her creation Peter And The Wolf.
The judging panel said the "intensely moving film has outstanding character design, cinematography and animation that create a palpable sense of place".
- 3/14/2008
- WENN
For a third consecutive year, the 10 Oscar-nominated shorts hit the theatrical circuit thanks to Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International.
They're nearly all films whose craftsmanship and detail fill the big screen, and to varying degrees their stories compel. The shorts arrive in about 50 cities today, with the Rain Network providing digital distribution.
Among the five live-action nominees, three deal in some aspect with the everyday world of work. Italy's The Substitute, by Andrea Jublin, is a spirited 17-minute collision between a typically self-absorbed group of teens and the strangely confrontational man who's subbing as their teacher -- and who has a hidden agenda that's as much about his own needs as theirs. For all its energy, the film is more concerned with an idea than characters and leaves the least impression of the bunch.
But the office drones in the Belgian film Tanghi argentini are vividly drawn. Before his date with a woman he met online, nebbishy Andre (Dirk van Dijck) enlists the help of an aloof colleague (Koen van Impe) for tango lessons. Elegantly lensed and crisply edited, the 14-minute tale unfolds with wit as the unlikely duo perfect terpsichorean flourishes amid the filing cabinets. The film by Guido Thys provides a nice twist.
For the hapless protagonists of The Mozart of Pickpockets, the workday involves city streets and acts of petty crime. French writer-director Philippe Pollet-Villard co-stars with Richard Morgieve, and their terrific sad-sack chemistry as these clownish thieves gives the half-hour its punch. Their luck changes after a homeless deaf boy latches on to them, but it's a less-than-convincing narrative element.
The two most affecting live-action entries are the spare Western The Tonto Woman (U.K.) and the heartrending hospital-set drama At Night (Denmark). The former, based on a story by Elmore Leonard, centers on a high-plains Hester Prynne (Charlotte Asprey), a woman physically marked by her Mojave captors and ostracized by her community after her release. She finds unexpected human connection in the form of a Mexican drifter (Francesco Quinn). The half-hour film by Daniel Barber uses archetypal widescreen desert vistas to strong effect.
In a far different setting, three young women have formed a community within the coolly lit rooms of a cancer ward in At Night. The 43-minute film by Christian E. Christiansen is direct and intimate but never maudlin. Restrained performances by Julie Olgaard, Laura Christensen and Neel Ronholt -- and Henrik Prip as one girl's father -- have a devastating emotional power.
The animated contenders deliver an array of imaginative narrative filmmaking. I Met the Walrus (Canada) is the exception in the sense that it's a documentary snippet. Josh Raskin uses audiotape of John Lennon, recorded in 1969 when 14-year-old Jerry Levitan sneaked into the Beatle's Toronto hotel room and coaxed an interview out of him. In its brief five minutes, the film free-associates line drawings and other playful 2-D visuals to Lennon's down-to-earth intelligence and subversive humor.
Offering its own brand of playful subversion is France's Even Pigeons Go to Heaven, by Samuel Tourneux. A wily priest-cum-huckster, brandishing a list of his would-be customer's sins, urges an old man to buy a contraption built of "celestial titanium" that's guaranteed to transport him to heaven.
A mood of dark mystery pervades another Canadian entry, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tutli-Putli. The silent claymation fantasy unfolds on a night train, where a woman in cloche and pearls, surrounded by her precariously stacked belongings, faces her fears. The imagery is rich with texture and atmosphere.
Four-time Oscar nominee Alexander Petrov (who won for The Old Man and the Sea) takes a classical approach in My Love, a fever dream set in 19th century Russia, where a pampered 16-year-old boy is attracted to his glamorous neighbor and his family's good-natured servant. At 25 minutes, the piece feels a bit long, and its melodrama is not always absorbing, but with their watercolor shimmer and nightmare depths, the impressionistic visuals are fluent.
Most successful is Peter & the Wolf (U.K.-Poland), by Suzie Templeton, which fills its affecting half-hour with a delightfully rendered array of human and animal characters. Precisely choreographed and edited to Prokofiev's music, the piece is a ballet both comical and poignant and a triumph of CG personality.
They're nearly all films whose craftsmanship and detail fill the big screen, and to varying degrees their stories compel. The shorts arrive in about 50 cities today, with the Rain Network providing digital distribution.
Among the five live-action nominees, three deal in some aspect with the everyday world of work. Italy's The Substitute, by Andrea Jublin, is a spirited 17-minute collision between a typically self-absorbed group of teens and the strangely confrontational man who's subbing as their teacher -- and who has a hidden agenda that's as much about his own needs as theirs. For all its energy, the film is more concerned with an idea than characters and leaves the least impression of the bunch.
But the office drones in the Belgian film Tanghi argentini are vividly drawn. Before his date with a woman he met online, nebbishy Andre (Dirk van Dijck) enlists the help of an aloof colleague (Koen van Impe) for tango lessons. Elegantly lensed and crisply edited, the 14-minute tale unfolds with wit as the unlikely duo perfect terpsichorean flourishes amid the filing cabinets. The film by Guido Thys provides a nice twist.
For the hapless protagonists of The Mozart of Pickpockets, the workday involves city streets and acts of petty crime. French writer-director Philippe Pollet-Villard co-stars with Richard Morgieve, and their terrific sad-sack chemistry as these clownish thieves gives the half-hour its punch. Their luck changes after a homeless deaf boy latches on to them, but it's a less-than-convincing narrative element.
The two most affecting live-action entries are the spare Western The Tonto Woman (U.K.) and the heartrending hospital-set drama At Night (Denmark). The former, based on a story by Elmore Leonard, centers on a high-plains Hester Prynne (Charlotte Asprey), a woman physically marked by her Mojave captors and ostracized by her community after her release. She finds unexpected human connection in the form of a Mexican drifter (Francesco Quinn). The half-hour film by Daniel Barber uses archetypal widescreen desert vistas to strong effect.
In a far different setting, three young women have formed a community within the coolly lit rooms of a cancer ward in At Night. The 43-minute film by Christian E. Christiansen is direct and intimate but never maudlin. Restrained performances by Julie Olgaard, Laura Christensen and Neel Ronholt -- and Henrik Prip as one girl's father -- have a devastating emotional power.
The animated contenders deliver an array of imaginative narrative filmmaking. I Met the Walrus (Canada) is the exception in the sense that it's a documentary snippet. Josh Raskin uses audiotape of John Lennon, recorded in 1969 when 14-year-old Jerry Levitan sneaked into the Beatle's Toronto hotel room and coaxed an interview out of him. In its brief five minutes, the film free-associates line drawings and other playful 2-D visuals to Lennon's down-to-earth intelligence and subversive humor.
Offering its own brand of playful subversion is France's Even Pigeons Go to Heaven, by Samuel Tourneux. A wily priest-cum-huckster, brandishing a list of his would-be customer's sins, urges an old man to buy a contraption built of "celestial titanium" that's guaranteed to transport him to heaven.
A mood of dark mystery pervades another Canadian entry, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tutli-Putli. The silent claymation fantasy unfolds on a night train, where a woman in cloche and pearls, surrounded by her precariously stacked belongings, faces her fears. The imagery is rich with texture and atmosphere.
Four-time Oscar nominee Alexander Petrov (who won for The Old Man and the Sea) takes a classical approach in My Love, a fever dream set in 19th century Russia, where a pampered 16-year-old boy is attracted to his glamorous neighbor and his family's good-natured servant. At 25 minutes, the piece feels a bit long, and its melodrama is not always absorbing, but with their watercolor shimmer and nightmare depths, the impressionistic visuals are fluent.
Most successful is Peter & the Wolf (U.K.-Poland), by Suzie Templeton, which fills its affecting half-hour with a delightfully rendered array of human and animal characters. Precisely choreographed and edited to Prokofiev's music, the piece is a ballet both comical and poignant and a triumph of CG personality.
- 2/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Now in their third year and one-week prior to Oscar night, Magnolia Pictures and Shorts Internation have come up with the ingenious idea of putting out the yearly Oscar-nominated short films in the Live Action and Animation categories (10 in all) first in theaters and quickly followed up by a DVD release. It's a nifty initiative on their part and great incentive to check out the short film form without needing to check out a load of other crap. We'll be profiling a good chunk of the 10 filmmakers listed below with our monthly feature: Short Film Corner. Look for the 10-collection in theaters starting on the 15th in over 50 theaters across the U.S. Two thumbs up for you Magnolia! The nominated Live Action Shorts are: At Night; Denmark, Oscar® Nominees: Christian E. Christiansen & Louise Vesth. Three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital cancer ward.
- 2/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
CANNES -- A new stop-motion animated feature version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf -- produced by the U.K.'s BreakThru Films, Se-Ma-For Studios in Poland and the U.K. Philharmonia Orchestra -- has been picked up for exclusive international licensing by Columbia Artists Management, the parties announced here Monday. The film is to be broadcast in Britain by Channel Four, then released internationally via DVD and TV sales. Columbia Artists management will handle theatrical dates with a live orchestra. Directed by Suzie Templeton and produced by Hugh Welchman and Alan Dewhurst, the picture will have its world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall in September accompanied by The Philharmonia Orchestra. It has an industry screening as part of MIDEM Classique here on Tuesday.
- 1/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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