Ralph Bakshi, the animator who did films like Wizards and the first adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, used an early rotoscope animation technique to create the fantasy story Fire and Ice, which adopted character designs by artist Frank Frazetta. Now Robert Rodriguez is going to make his first foray into full-on fantasy epics…
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Watch Lord of the Rings lost footage from Ralph Bakshi's 1978 film featuring an extended battle between Gandalf and the Balrog.
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Robert Rodriguez is a director who always has quite a few projects on the burner; he's also a director for whom it isn't unusual to see multiple things coming into focus all at once. In 2012 Rodriguez will shoot Machete Kills, then Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and then if things go well…
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When the artist Frank Frazetta passed away ten days ago, we saw a lot of hastily-assembled tributes to his work. Somehow, not many people pointed out Fire and Ice, the film on which Frazetta collaborated with animation director Ralph Bakshi. But the film will get attention now because, after years of trying to get a…
Read MoreWith Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones doc, Shine a Light, booked to play theaters in April, I find myself much more interested in Ruby Tuesday, an animated film from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the writers of the Beatles musical Across the Universe, that will utilize the Stones' music in a similar fashion. "We wrote…
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