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Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist easily tops my list for most anticipated animated feature of 2010 (sorry Tangled). The film premiered to raves last week at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Pathé Distribution website lists a May 5, 2010 release date, which I believe is for France. Pathé is also handling UK distribution, though [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
A new YouTube video gives us the first online look at moving footage from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, and what we see is simply stunning. The film has premiered this week at the Berlin Film Festival to some wonderfully positive reviews, the most encouraging of which come from those who had doubts about Chomet's previous feature, Belleville Rendezvous. You can see the video...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 02/21/2010
No, it's not a formal trailer for Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist just yet but with the film premiering in Berlin, festival organizers put together a reel made up of footage from the film cut together with interview footage of Chomet talking about the creation of the picture. Want to see Chomet's spin on Jacques Tati and the Scottish highlands? Take a look below!
Frames Per Second (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist , the follow-up to his brilliant 2003 Les triplettes de Belleville had its premiere screening this week at the Berlin Film Festival. I can't wait to see it! It's an adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Jacques Tati, intended to be a live action film. This footage looks fantastic and if the screenplay is anything close to Tati's wonderful Playtime...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
A new YouTube video gives us the first online look at moving footage from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, and what we see is simply stunning. The film has premiered this week at the Berlin Film Festival to some wonderfully positive reviews, the most encouraging of which come from those who had doubts about Chomet's previous feature, Belleville Rendezvous. You can see the video...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
The intertitles are in Russian, but we have to post it: the first full trailer for Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist. (Thanks, David Nethery and Carlo Guillot)
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
International News: Folman, Chomet, Leconte pics take center stage -- Ari Folman's "The Congress," Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" and Patrice Leconte's "Le Magasin des suicides" were among the most-buzzed toon titles at Europe's Cartoon Movie.
Christopher Fowlers Blog (Free subscription) | 03/03/2010
Sylvain Chomet, the director of the wonderful ‘Les Triplettes De Bellville’, is returning with a new film (apparently different in style and rather downbeat) called ‘The Illusionist’, based on an unproduced script from the legendary Jacques Tati. Thinking abut Tati (when I should have been writing) and noting comments from some non-French viewers that they [...]...
Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Check out some photos and a featurette video of Sylvain Chomet's new animation film, L'ILLUSIONNISTE (The Illusionist), which was written by Jacques Tati before he passed away. L'Illusionniste follows the story of an old illusionist, who loses his job at the theater and ends up working jobs in bars, cafes, here and there. Until one day he meets a young girl who will change his whole life....
mainlymovies (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
... but copious nudity and insane naiveté to recommend it. I did stay... The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, UK/France: Berlinale Special) A– A beautiful wisp of a thing: captures the Edinburgh twilight just sublimely Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, US: out of competition) C+ Pleasant enough, though the want of ambition or novelty disappoints Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, US:...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 02/20/2010
A wistful ode to a now long-dead era, Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist is a film sure to both delight and frustrate fans who have spent years awaiting the return of the madman responsible for Belleville Rendez-Vous (aka The Triplets Of Belleville ) back in 2003. The delight comes simply from Chomet's long-awaited return and the obvious artistry poured into every gorgeous frame...
Letter from Here (Free subscription) | 02/17/2010
... assist toward adulthood in "The Illusionist." Five years in the making, master animator Sylvain Chomet’s follow-up to "The Triplets Of Belleville" deploys superb hand-drawn imagery to bring to life an unproduced screenplay the late Tati finished in 1959. Told with no dialogue but carried along by deeply evocative sound design, this visually rewarding film’s...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
France/Belgium/Canada/UK Animated Feature Film Original Title: Les triplettes de Belleville Writer/Director/Animator: Sylvain Chomet Composer: Benoît Charest Cast: Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Mari-Lou Gauthier, Charles Prévost Linton, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas Members of Le French Mafia kidnap three ailing participants...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
"An unfilmed Jacques Tati screenplay, L'illusionniste, will finally make it to the screen after 54 years, when director Sylvain Chomet's animated version has its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale, next month. But the occasion threatens to be overshadowed by a story of pain and scandal from the real life of the French comedian."...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
... with generous descriptions of his processes and techniques. He also worked as a digital artist on Sylvain Chomet’s new film The Illusionist . Below is his thesis film, 5 , which is “an exploration of childhood memories, combining scientific theory, the wandering mind of a child, and largely abstract sound design to hopefully evoke feelings of nostalgia, familiarity and comfort.” I...