Tag: stop-motion

Chicken Run

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Post date December 6 2023
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Producer-Directors: Nick Park, Peter Lord – Producer – David Sproxton – 2000 – UK – Cert. PG – 84m ***** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Plasticene stop-frame animation house Aardman Animations’ debut feature film reconceives The Great Escape with chickens – back out in UK cinemas from Friday, 24th July Aardman […]

Animation Features Movies

Savages
(Sauvages)

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Post date August 1 2025
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(Sauvages)
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Director – Claude Barras – 2024 – Switzerland – Cert. PG – 87m French with English subtitles. ***** An indigenous pre-teenage girl stands up to loggers destroyingthe local rainforest – stop-frame animated feature from the director of My Life as a Courgette is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 1st From its opening moments […]

Tags 11-year-old, 3D animation, ancestors, animation, animator, Babette De Coster, baby, backing of the authorities, Benoît Poelvoorde, Borneo, bulldozer, capitalism, chainsaw, Charles de Ville, child-eating monster, children struggling to cope, Claude Barras, compromise, contemporary life, cousin, darkness, digitally immersive environment, economics of deforestation, embarrassment, environment, environmental theme, fathers and children, film activities, financial gain, followed by jungle, forest, frog, grandfather, grandfathers and children, habitat destruction, hands-on physicality, harvest fruit, heritage, incoming call, indigenous, infant, jungle forest, learned survival skills, loggers, loss of a parent, loss of the mother, Martin Verset, maternal instincts, miniature, model, model animation, model sets, modern technology, monster in the forest, mother’s death, mothers and children, myth making, native, natural habitat, natural outdoors world, nuclear family, orangutan, orphan, ostracise, Oxbridge graduate, palm oil extraction, peer group, Penan, perceived societal norm, Pierre-Isaïe Duc, police, pre-teenage, puppets blink, rainforest, rampage, rasping, resistance, ringtone, rucksack, Sauvages, savage, Savages, school, single-parent families, smartphone battery died, smartphone obsession, smelly boy, snake, spoken language, stop-frame, stop-motion, struggling to cope, swinging on a branch, Switzerland, trauma, tree, tropic, true to his roots, venomous snake, viral video

Animation Art Features Movies

Kubo
and the Two Strings

Director – Travis Knight – 2016 – US – Cert. PG – 101m ***** The following review originally appeared in Funimation UK; republished to coincide with the LAIKA: Frame x Frame exhibition which shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) […]

Tags 3D animation, action, animation, CG, CG animation, Edo, eyes, fairy tale, fairytale, fantasy, folk tale, illusion, Japan, Laika Studios, monsters, mythology, Noh, origami, puppetry, samurai, skeleton, spirits, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, US, village, visuals, warrior

Animation Features Movies

Coraline (3D)

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Post date August 12 2024
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Director – Henry Selick – 2009 – US – Cert. PG – 100m UK release date 08/05/2009 Originally reviewed for Third Way in 2009; republished to coincide with not only the 15th anniversary cinema reissue of the film on Thursday, 15th August 2024, but also the LAIKA: Frame x Frame exhibition which shows at BFI […]

Animation Art Exhibitions Movies

LAIKA
FRAME x FRAME

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Post date August 19 2024
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FRAME x FRAME
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Pic: Toby Lewis Thomas, courtesy LAIKA and BFI

***** Exhibition shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) accompanied by the Stop Motion animation season including all five LAIKA feature films and much, much more In the best part of two decades, US-based Laika Studios – named after the […]

Tags alternative worlds, animation, Barry Purves, beast, boxes, bring to life, Brothers Quay, CG, CG animation, component, computer effects, creative talent, creature, creature feature, Czech, D animation, dark, design, drawers, fantasy, garden plants, glass cases, Guillermo del Toro, Henry Selick, Himalayas, Japan, Jiří Barta, Jiří Trnka, Karel Zeman Jan Švankmajer, Laika Studios, Laika Studios stop-motion, legend, life-sized, magic, malevolence, merch, Missing Link, model shop, models, myth, Nick Park, Oscar nominations, ostracised, panels, parallel world, performance, Peter Lord, plasticine, production, prop, puppet, puppet build, quest, Robert Morgan, set design, socks, speak with the dead, Stop Motion, stop-frame, stop-motion, stranger, Travis Knight, troubled spirits, underground, US, Victorian explorer, visual effects, walk, walkway, Wes Anderson, wood, Yeti

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Stopmotion

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Robert Morgan – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 The bereaved daughter of a stop-frame animator attempts to complete her late mother’s last film – out on Shudder UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from Friday, May 31st Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies Shorts

Tsukamoto
–
Killing
(Zan, 斬、)
–
Haze
(ヘイズ)
–
The Adventures
of Denchu Kozo
(Denchu Kozou
no Boken,
電柱小僧の冒険)

Killing (Sawamura) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2018 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 79m *** [Update: The Adventures of Denchu Kozo streams on the Arrow Channel from Friday, May 3rd 2024.] The Adventures of Denchu Kozo (Denchu kozo no boken) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1987 – Japan – 45m **** Haze Director – […]

Animation Features Movies

The Inventor

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Post date March 5 2024
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Directors – Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon – 2023 – US, France, Ireland – Cert. PG – 100m **** Towards the end of his life, inventor Leonardo da Vinci goes to live in France under the patronage of the King – stop frame / drawn animation composite is out in the UK’s Vue cinemas on Friday, […]

Tags 2D animation, 3D animation, Angelino Sandri, animation, body, cannonball, capture, castle, character design Cardinal De Beatis, Charles V, city, corpse, Daisy Ridley, Daniel Swan, dissection, drawing, drawn animation, dreams, enemy, flying rigs, forces, France, Francis I, French, Gauthier Battoue, Giuliano de Medici, gravedigger, Henry VIII, hooded, human body, ideal city, Inventor, Ireland, Italy, Jane Osborn, Jim Capobianco, John Gilkey, king, Leonardo da Vinci, lion, Louise de Savoy, magnifying glasses, Marion Cotillard, Matt Berry, Max Baumgarten, Meaning Of Life, mechanical, mechanical lion, Natalie Palamides, observation, obsession, optics, painting, pastel shade, peace, peepholes, Pierre-Luc Granjon, pontiff, Pope, Pope Leo X, power, Princess Marguerite de Navarre, puppet, Queen Mother, Renaissance, Rome, royal court, spirit, spirit of man, statue, Stephen Fry, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, study, suns, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, US, visions, war, war machines, wire work

Animation Features Movies

Chicken Run:
Dawn of the Nugget

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Post date December 8 2023
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Dawn of the Nugget
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Director – Sam Fell – Co-Director – Jeff Newitt – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 101m **** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Having escaped the farm for an island paradise, the chickens must break into and wreck a food processing factory masquerading as a holiday camp to lure unwitting […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Tetsuo:
the Iron Man
(Tetsuo,
鉄男)

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Post date September 29 2020
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the Iron Man
(Tetsuo,
鉄男)
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Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1989 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 67m ***** On Arrow Channel from Friday, September 22nd. Previously on BFI Player as part of Japan 2020. This review originally appeared in Manga Mania. A metals fetishist (played by director Shinya Tsukamoto) inserts a metal tube into his leg and the resultant […]