More than a year-and-a-half since news of its development first broke, Sylvain Chomet‘s new film The Thousand Miles is about to move forward. Reportedly a combination of live-action and animated material, it’s inspired by writings and drawings that Federico Fellini created from his dreams, and follows an early-80s-set plot concerning “a pair of ageing brothers who, separated by the twist and turns of life, reunite through their shared life-dream to compete in Italy’s Mille Miglia – a Brescia-to-Rome-and-back vintage car rally, said to be the world’s most beautiful road race.”
The animation process will call for combinations of 2D and CG material, and perhaps that vision can be partly understood through the concept art provided above — though an artist of Chomet’s exacting nature is certainly best understood via movement. Nevertheless, impending movement on this project — with storyboard and designs happening this month, and a cast...
The animation process will call for combinations of 2D and CG material, and perhaps that vision can be partly understood through the concept art provided above — though an artist of Chomet’s exacting nature is certainly best understood via movement. Nevertheless, impending movement on this project — with storyboard and designs happening this month, and a cast...
- 1/5/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
While this year’s nominations included another Disney short from the makers of The Paperman and a 20-minute emotional rollercoaster from some animators that left Pixar, the Oscar field for animated short included a director who would go on to earn a feature length animation nomination a few years later.
The debut short by director Sylvian Chomet, who would later direct The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist, was released online. The film, titled The Old Lady and The Pigeons, runs 22 minutes long and came out in 1997 before being nominated for a best animated short Oscar (it would lose to Pixar’s Geri’s Game).
The short tells the quirky story of a skinny, starving French policeman who dresses up as a pigeon and forces an old lady to feed him. And things get weirder from there as he keeps returning to the old woman’s house and ballooning in size.
The debut short by director Sylvian Chomet, who would later direct The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist, was released online. The film, titled The Old Lady and The Pigeons, runs 22 minutes long and came out in 1997 before being nominated for a best animated short Oscar (it would lose to Pixar’s Geri’s Game).
The short tells the quirky story of a skinny, starving French policeman who dresses up as a pigeon and forces an old lady to feed him. And things get weirder from there as he keeps returning to the old woman’s house and ballooning in size.
- 3/2/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
yt id="MqhVcRrrauY" width="500" Directed by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist), below is his 1997 short film The Old Lady and the Pigeons (La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons), which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. It lost the award to Pixar's Geri's Game (included below). An emaciated Parisian policeman discovers an old lady who feeds pigeons in the park excessively. After having a nightmare ending in giant pigeon-men pecking at his stomach, the policeman constructs a pigeon mask, which he wears to the old lady's home. She welcomes him inside and, despite his rude behavior, allows him to gorge himself. As weeks pass, the policeman grows increasingly fat. As he goes up flights of stairs to the woman's home each day, he passes a maid sweeping the floor. Eventually, the policeman discovers the old lady's other pet: the woman who swept the floor,...
- 2/27/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Feature Aliya Whiteley 19 Sep 2013 - 06:53
Aliya looks back at animator and filmmaker Sylvain Chomet's magnificent movies, including Belleville Rendezvous and The Illusionist...
Movies are made about all kinds of love. Ripley defends Newt because of maternal love, and Zhivago writes a poem for Lara in the grip of passionate love. Love bridges the generations between Harold and Maude, and makes Stitch come back to save Lilo.
There aren’t many films about the mundane love we feel every day for our families and the people that surround us, but Sylvain Chomet has made four beautiful films on that subject, and on the responsibility that comes with it. They are quiet, detailed, sometimes strange, always emotionally affecting films, ranging from five minutes to 80 minutes in length, but all four find their way into your memory and, at unexpected moments, make you remember them, and smile.
Chomet was born near...
Aliya looks back at animator and filmmaker Sylvain Chomet's magnificent movies, including Belleville Rendezvous and The Illusionist...
Movies are made about all kinds of love. Ripley defends Newt because of maternal love, and Zhivago writes a poem for Lara in the grip of passionate love. Love bridges the generations between Harold and Maude, and makes Stitch come back to save Lilo.
There aren’t many films about the mundane love we feel every day for our families and the people that surround us, but Sylvain Chomet has made four beautiful films on that subject, and on the responsibility that comes with it. They are quiet, detailed, sometimes strange, always emotionally affecting films, ranging from five minutes to 80 minutes in length, but all four find their way into your memory and, at unexpected moments, make you remember them, and smile.
Chomet was born near...
- 9/18/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Tomorrow the famed Studio Ghibli is to announce their next full length feature film. Following up Miyazaki's Ponyo, will it be Paku-san's (Takahata Isao) long longed for comeback film? Or perhaps will it be by their new director about whom producer Suzuki told some time ago (rumoured to be Yonebayashi Hiromasa)? Well, the latter might certainly be the case as two days ago Suzuki noted the director is 36 years old and that his animating skill is the best in Studio Ghibli. He didn't expect to be become a director, but nowadays though Miyazaki often sits next to him to encourage him. Either way, more news tomorrow at GhibliWorld.com, but for now it's a good excuse to spice up this Twitch-o-Meter with the animated flavor of five random works worth checking out.
Summer Wars
This ToM won't reside in the land of the rising sun though, as Hosoda Mamoru's latest...
Summer Wars
This ToM won't reside in the land of the rising sun though, as Hosoda Mamoru's latest...
- 12/15/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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