Animated News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Variety has posted an article featuring Academy award nominee Sylvain Chomet and his new feature film The Illusionist. The article suggests how the Scottish capital seduced the French director and his wife in 2003 when they visited the place for the screening of his film The Triplets of Belleville at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
... from 1935, which has been described as one of Swinton's favourite movies.Others include Sylvain Chomet's The Old Lady And The Pigeons and Mohammed Ali Talebi's children's film, The Boots. The closing film is Federico Fellini's classic movie 8 1/2, the 1963 black-and-white movie which is a regular on lists of the greatest films ever made.The festival has been called the "brainchild" of Oscar-winning...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Here is the trailer for Universal’s CG adaptation of the children’s book The Tales of Despereaux. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) is directing, but the production has had a troubled history with earlier directors including Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Belleville) and Mike Johnson (The Corpse Bride). Chomet told an interviewer about his decision to leave the [...]
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
... grays and greens. Those left someone disenchanted by Trafic , however, need not fret. Sylvain Chomet– he of Les Triplettes de Belleville fame– will resurrect Hulot, albeit in animated form, in next year’s L’Illusionniste , from an unproduced script by Tati. This time around, struggling magician Hulot takes his act on the road from the Hebrides to– of all places– Edinburgh (Chomet’s...
