Thursday 29 March 2012

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Renaissance - Trailer



Set in 2054, this film follows a detective (Daniel Craig) investigating the kidnapping of a young woman (Romola Garai) and his introduction to a medical researcher (Catherine McCormack) in a repressive, futuristic Paris.

Making of "Le temps d'un match"



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Le fainéant / The idler



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'Someone who only sleep and watch TV all day... A work for LISAA (my animation school)'

Let's Pollute 2011 ( Best Short Film, Animated Nomine )



In the spirit of 50's & 60's educational films, 'Let's Pollute' is a modern satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong, while instructing us how to be better polluters for a better blighted tomorrow.

With a narrator who sounds like he has time traveled straight from educational shorts sixty years ago, this animated comedy turns the conservative Americana tone of those sorts of films on their heads. The animated people look like they might be related to Little Caesar of the pizza franchise. The satire aimed at the history of our wasteful habits and ill concern for maintaining the environment of our planet is quite biting.

Unrated, 6 min.
Comedy, Animation
Directed By:Geefwee Boedoe
http://vimeo.com/10149605

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2003 - " belleville rendez-vous " - official trailer



The distance between Lilo & Stitch and Belleville Rendez-Vous is the distance between life itself and a packet of cornflakes. Although both are animated features, one is a work of genius and the other a commercial venture.
Sylvian Chomet's debut is reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen, which appeared out of a technicolour sky in 1990, untouched by convention, or cliche. Suddenly, black comedy, visual innovation, surreal humour and eccentricity returned to the cynical, if not jaded, craft of filmmaking.
Chomet's story of a determined, peg-legged, diminutive Portuguese granny, whose life is dedicated to the well-being of her dim, secretive grandson, from a leaning house beside a railway line in a French suburb around the time that Vincente Minnelli was shooting Gigi in Hollywood with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, is a patchwork of bizarre and unforgettable moments, many of which involve a fat dog called Bruno who barks at trains and an ageing trio of singing sisters who make music with domestic utensils.
The grandson grows up into a long distance cycle racer, whose thigh and calf muscles are so extended that he can't walk. Granny Souza has to massage him with a garden mower to keep his circulation going.
The plot dips and dives through elaborately drawn tunnels of invention to the city of Belleville, where organised crime and nostalgia for the music of the Thirties holds sway. Granny Souza, Bruno and the singing triplets make their stand against cloned gangsters who have kidnapped the bicycle boy for their own devious and deadly entertainment.
Everything about this film is a surprise. The animation harks back to the glory years of Richard Williams, when experimental work from Eastern Europe influenced Western cartoonists who had rejected the sentimentality of the American school.
There is no dialogue, for example, although memorable sound effects. During this period of social history, when spin and marketing dictates the viewing habits of a nation, Chomet walks in the shadow of Nick Park, despite their styles being completely different, and lays claim to the heartbeat of those who believe that normality is a tranquilliser, administered by enemies of the imagination.



French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet directs the animated feature The Triplets of Belleville. A young boy is raised by his grandmother, Madame Souza, in the French countryside. She buys him a bicycle and encourages his dream of winning the Tour de France. However, he gets kidnapped by a group of Mafia gangsters and taken to the big city of Belleville, where he is used for his bicycling prowess in an elaborate gambling scheme. Along with her faithful companion Bruno, Madame Souza sets out to rescue ... More

PG-13, 1 hr. 21 min.
Drama, Animation, Art House & International, Comedy
Directed By:Sylvain Chomet
Written By:Sylvain Chomet

2010- The Illusionist (trailor)



The Illusionist (French: L'Illusionniste) is a 2010 Scottish-French animated comedy-drama film directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati's motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel[2] in collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet, between writing for the films Mon Oncle and Play Time.

The main character is a version of Tati animated by several people under the lead of Laurent Kircher.[9] The plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.[10] Originally intended by Tati to be set in Czechoslovakia, Chomet relocated the film to Scotland in the late 1950s.[10][11] According to the director, "It's not a romance, it's more the relationship between a dad and a daughter."[12] Sony's US press kit declares that the "script for The Illusionist was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced".

PG, 1 hr. 22 min.
Drama, Animation, Art House & International, Comedy
Directed By:Sylvain Chomet
Written By:Sylvain Chomet, Jacques Tati

2009 - 'Totally Spies le film' taster



An origin story of how three high school girls became like, total spies.

Unrated, 1 hr. 15 min.
Action & Adventure, Animation, Art House & International, Comedy
Directed By:Pascal Jardin
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2010-A CAT IN PARIS - Official HD Trailer



Animators Jean-Loup Felicioni and Alain Gagnol draw inspiration from Expressionist painters to give their short but not-too-sweet animation its distinctive fluid style, with its light and shade perfectly matching the night-time skyline where much of the action is set. Movement is everywhere, from the shadows playing on the characters' faces to the grace with which they move through the city of Paris.
Dino is the cat of the title, making a nightly pilgrimage from the home he shares with little Zoe and her police inspector mum, to join cat burglar Nico on his light-fingered excursions across the roof-tops.Traumatised by the loss of her dad - killed by criminals her mum is still hunting - Zoe has lost the ability to speak. And when she decides to follow Dino on his travels one night, she finds herself threatened by the evil gang boss who murdered her father. Nico, meanwhile, finds his thievery also putting him on a collision course with the kingpin. As Zoe and Nico's paths cross, it seems they might be able to escape together.
The story is undoubtedly rather slight, but features plenty of reference to noir films of the past and even some modern nods to films such as Reservoir Dogs that will no doubt appeal to eagle-eyed parents. Younger children, meanwhile, will be more interested in the film's sense of adventure, with its exciting rooftop chases, decent level of peril (possibly a little too scary for very young kids) and exhilirating climax at Notre Dame. Emotions are as important to the film as plot, as we see Zoe and her mum trying to come to terms with grief in their own way and reconnect with one another. This is a grace note, rather than the main thrust of the story, however, with the emphasis firmly on excitement.
Yet another film in the recent flurry of strong, individually distinctive animation from French animators - including Persepolis and The Illusionist - that proves 2D can still hold its own against the 3D muscle of Hollywood.


Unrated, 1 hr. 5 min.
Animation, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Directed By:Jean-Loup Felicioli , Alain Gagnol
Written By:Alain Gagnol

In Theaters: Apr 6, 2012 Wide

2007-Persepolis UK Trailer



This trailor is the UK version of a 'smart animated film' which 'tells the story of the Islamic revolution in Iran from the eyes of a open minded young girl, growing up to be a woman both inside and abroad of the country. That's surprisingly informative as a history lesson, both funny and dark and realistic at times, but always striking the right tone. While the animation always stays simplistic, the main character easily engages the audience and makes you care for her voyage and the story of her home. Only the ending comes off as a bit anticlimatic, but that doesn't take anything away from the importance and charm of the film. Very well done.'

Movie Info

Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct this adaptation of Satrapi's bestselling autobiographical graphic novel.

PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.
Drama, Animation
Directed By:Vincent Paronnaud , Marjane Satrapi
Written By:Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud