Cool Stuff: Artist Laurent Durieux Presents Jacques Tati's 'Jour De Fete'
Jour De Fete was Jacques Tati's 1st film and popular artist Laurent Durieux has made a beautiful poster for it. See the Laurent Durieux Jacques Tati Poster
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'Playtime' Restoration Trailer: Jacques Tati's City-Building Masterpiece Returns [Updated]
If you've never seen Playtime, the movie that almost broke Jacques Tati, 2014 could be your year. A new seven-disc box set of Tati blu-rays hits the UK in July, and Criterion should have its own set for release soon in the US. Along with the blu-rays comes a 4K restoration of Tati's incredible film Playtime. I…
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International Movie Trailer: The Illusionist, By Sylvain Chomet
We've shown you quite a good bit of material from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, including a Russian trailer. But this UK trailer for the film is the best look yet; it has a lot of new footage, and the quality is much higher than anything we've seen so far. We knew from stills that the…
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Watch The Lovely Trailer For Sylvain Chomet's Animated The Illusionist
I'm about as interested as it is possible to be in Sylvain Chomet's upcoming The Illusionist. My interest is based on the fact that the film is the intersection of Chomet's visual sense, somehow both a quaint and fantastic evocation of the everyday as seen in The Triplets of Belleville, and the storytelling impulse of…
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First Footage From Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
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…
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New Images From Sylvain Chomet And Jacque Tati's The Illusionist
Creating a ‘traditionally animated’ feature, which is to say a film created by drawing 2D images rather than tweaking 3D models, either physically or virtually, is most definitely a very time consuming exercise (I take issue with the term ‘traditionally animated’ as I’m not sure what’s untraditional about the art of stop-motion). Unsurprising, then, that…
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