Pick your fairy tale and you’ll find a reference, with astonishingly fun, creative action sequences in an animation style that owes more to anime than CGI.
Tag: Pixar
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Inside Out has a small but significant Chicago connection
The ideas behind Disney-Pixar’s new film about emotion have local roots.
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Andrew Bujaski gets Results, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
Inside Out This week we take a look at Results, the latest comedy from indie stalwart Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess), and Inside Out, the latest Pixar animation. Guess which one is going to make a yawning ass-load of money this weekend? From Mayerling to Sarajevo Check out the new issue […]
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Inside Out, soon to be a major emotion picture
In the Pixar animation Inside Out, the mind of an 11-year-old girl becomes the stage for a great adventure.
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This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts are consistently, modestly enjoyable
An 80-minute compilation of Oscar nominees and honorable mentions opens this weekend at the Landmark Century.
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The five best Pixar films (yes, it includes at least one Toy Story)
The best films from Pixar Animation Studios
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Did you read about J.K. Rowling, Pixar, and George Zimmerman?
Also, a new Twitter bot, a Zimmerman juror’s book deal, and who prepared Shakespeare’s text for the First Folio?
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This week in tactile cinema: Monsters University and Stan Brakhage
The great avant-garde filmmaker and the Pixar animators use the technology at their disposal to create images you can practically touch; the similarities pretty much end there.
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Silent Running: Hollywood’s greatest plant movie
A movie about plant life in deep space
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Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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This week’s movie action
Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm in Friends With Kids It’s troubled teen week at the European Union Festival Film Festival, whose offerings include Putin’s Kiss, a Danish documentary about the rabid pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi; Innocence, a Czech suspense flick about a 14-year-old who accuses her doctor of rape; Ave, the story […]