Watch 'The Simpsons' Couch Gag By 'Triplets Of Belleville' Director Sylvain Chomet
Watch a version of ‘The Simpsons’ Couch Gag by ‘Triplets of Belleville’ Director Sylvain Chomet.
Read More-
-
Concept Art From Sylvain Chomet's 'Triplets Of Belleville' Prequel 'Swing Popa Swing'
Briefly: French animation director Sylvain Chomet is going back in time. His new film will likely be Swing Popa Swing. The subject of the film is linked to Chomet's breakout success, as it will look back to the youth of three sisters seen in his film The Triplets of Belleville. Swing Popa Swing is in the…
Read More -
'The Simpsons' Parodies Awards Season, Pixar And More
Every once in a while, The Simpsons still hits the right notes. A few months ago the show opened with a Banksy-designed sequence that was the most pointed bit of animation seen on the show in years. Now The Simpsons is turning barbs toward the film award season, and is taking easy but amusing shots…
Read More -
Next Film From 'The Illusionist' Director Sylvain Chomet Will Either Be CG Animation Or Live-Action
Noted hand-drawn animation director Sylvain Chomet made The Triplets of Belleville, had an unsuccessful stint as director of The Tale of Desperaux when the film was in development, and now has his new film, The Illusionist, in theaters. With that latest milestone passed, the question naturally arises: what will the director do for an encore?…
Read More -
U.S. Movie Trailer: The Illusionist
In June, we posted the international movie trailer for Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, which looked amazing. I got a chance to screen the film at the Telluride film festival, and it is a visually stunning testament to the art of 2D animation. The film is set to be released in the states (in limited theaters)…
Read More -
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…
Read More -
Sales: Sony Classics Takes Animated Film The Illusionist; LionsGate Picks Up The Lincoln Lawyer
I didn't have much doubt that a distributor would quickly move on Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist. (Refer back to our previous articles detailing the film, which has origins in an unproduced screenplay by the great Jacques Tati and features a character very much designed after Tati.) In fact, I didn't have much doubt that it…
Read More -
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…
Read More -
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…
Read More -
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…
Read More
