The framing device of setting different stories in the same location is a well-worn trope, but it works beautifully here, lending a starting point for three very different visions.
Tag: Jan Svankmajer
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Five masters of stop-motion animation
If you like the Czech animations by Jiri Trnka showing this month at Film Center, try out these other five greats of nontraditional animation.
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Our guide to the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Eyeworks Festival of Animation presents two programs of mind-blowing imagery.
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Joe Dante’s fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s, you know, issue
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That’s disgusting!
Is Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Palfi the new Jan Svankmajer? Or does he just like to make your skin crawl?
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Alice
Czech puppet animator Jan Svankmajer began making shorts in 1964, but not until 1988 was he able to realize his dream of a feature adapting Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The world on the other side of Svankmajer’s looking glass is hilariously macabre: taxidermy is the controlling metaphor, as a live-action Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) descends […]