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Not breaking news but a big discovery to me just made: Puskin, Herzog and the Monsters, The Periwig Maker and many other shorts are available for free streaming from the BBC's Film Network.

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Kirikou and the Sorceress and Spirited Away are screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, both, very unusually for the former, with their original audio, English-subbed, this Saturday, 26 November 2011 according to here. Sen begins at midday and Kirikou at 4.30 PM (16:30), both in Cinema 1, with the 1948 Oliver Twist in-between at 2.15 PM (14:15). £5 each, also unusual for London. Current

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Soda Pictures have already picked up Les Contes de la nuit (2011) for the UK and Ireland according to the London Film Festival web site and uniFrance. Bad news in that it'll probably be dub-only but good that they'll probably give it a general release and pretty soon too. Current music: Alexander Bălănescu & Ada Milea – The Island (Bălănescu Quartet feat. voice and guitar: Ada Milea) Just

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Laloux's La Planète sauvage is showing on UK TV channel Sky Movies Indie on Monday, 12 (at 08:00 AM) and Tuesday, 13 September (at 12:25). And new Barry Purves and Brothers McLeod! Current music: BBC Prom Prom 71 – Stan Kenton Tribute

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Which I'm ashamed to say I hadn't noticed till today: that ''Daughters of Equality'' (not included in any DVD and unlikely to ever be) has uploaded to YouTube in full by aaa and that the still-quite-elusive-if-now-slightly-less-so Christian Maire's score to Les Contes de la nuit (2011), including a few songs, has been released as a digital download-exclusive album. It's even available in the UK,

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Has anyone else considered that the UK government might have any interest in discouraging production of media of Human Centipede: Full Sequence's ilk, which somewhat limiting its profitability by denying it distribution here is about the most they can do to that end? I would be happy to be pointed towards evidence of Shiraishi's Grotesque and the rest of the handful of films rejected by the BBFC

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Or, "Another late night." If viewing through Facebook click "View original post" below to see the pictures. Current music: Scott Joplin – "Pineapple Rag"

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Just noticed that Azur et Asmar began a run in German cinemas on 7 April 2011! After Les Contes de la nuit premiered there this Feburary, wether that has anything to do with it or if they were just even later to the party than with Ponyo. Regardless, it is always commendable to give new acquisitions a cinema release, no matter how long they've been out on home video in other countries: in fact,

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A quick post to point out that the inspirational Indian Hill Railways is back on BBC Four. Current music: Ruddigore – "I once was a very abandoned person"

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What what My Dog Tulip (Cartoon Brew, AniPages) getting a UK cinema release? Current music: MORI Chieko — "Kimono Dance"

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What the frimmydeepsvanyet new Kate Bush?! Oh, it's new versions of album tracks (if the lead single is anything to go on, re-Kate Bushised and un-normal and -'80sised but lacking some warm charm of analogue recording and processing effects, now that contemporary computers have given such freedom to her trademark vocal manipulation, as well as the professionalism of EMI, whether that's a good

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What's this Told by an Idiot in Leeds and it's already gone and just when they've extended the free tickets for 25-and-underers offer?? Stupid films. :-( Current music: Joe HISAISHI – "Madness"

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A surprisingly detailed and revelatory interview with the director of Durarara!! at Anime News Network. Current music: School of Music, University of Leeds Afro-Colombian Ensemble

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Catch the live streams at the Berlinale's Web site for the world premiere of the new Les Contes de la nuit on Sunday, February 13 . There's a press conference at 10:30 German time (that's 11:30 AM UK time) and the red carpet at 16:00 (17:00/5:00 PM UK). Current music: Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez (Harp ver.) Consigning Barber's Adagio for Strings into Room 101 (along with "

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Relatively more encouraging than Cartoon Brew's round-up of upcoming North American animated features is Catsuka's of mostly recently announced European ones, of which Laguionie's but not La Fabrique's (made instead at Blue Spirit) Le Tableau (The Painting) continues to excite with another of what is hopefully a still rather than concept art.Current music: Men Without Hats – "The Safety

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The Brothers Mc"Pedro and Frankensheep"Leod's The Moonbird is to be broadcast on Channel 4 (and in 1080i on Channel 4 HD, Freeview channel № 52) on Saturday, 25 December at 00:40 – i.e., 40 minutes past midnight on Christmas eve – as the fifth in a series of "4mations" that thanks to their short film strand changing identity at a pace that rivals my secondary school's room numbers I've so far

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Lots of interest at the Zipangu Fest that has just started in London: MIZUE Mirai and other CALF artists, TAIJIN Takeuchi, NAGAO "CHAINSAW MAID" Takena and a night of Harada's Shōjo Tsubaki film (with music by J. A. Seazer!) and other drawn ero-guro.

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Now this makes me want to experience REDLINE.Current music: James SHIMOJO – "REDLINE DAY"

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The Andreas Hykade one (Love & Theft) was the only really decent one at the animation competition today, if you ask me (and Old Fangs – from the same studio as The Secret of Kells which is also screening in the festival – was tolerable for the beauty of it's sets/backgrounds/décors but largely only as an animated film rather than animation film, if you can work out what I mean by that). And Ci

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Michel Ocelot having turned it down multiple times, a big-budget Le Petit Prince film, one of the producers being that of the recent TV special that went from some nice designs not that suited to 3D CGI to being ultimately ugly-looking, now has Kung Fu Panda's Mark Osborne as its director. Having secured $63 million towards it, the producers have oxymoronically claimed to be aiming to, "make The

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Wow, if this is followed through with. Does this make them the first noitaminA series to reach home video here?Current music: Karl Jenkins – "Adiemus"Though a rather tasteful, ventilated a capella interpretation that manages to reclaim it from advert music.

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Dragons et princesses airs every week-day next week at 20:25 (8:25 PM) on Canal+ Family. Source. Still no idea whether it will be a different ep. each day or each week.

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The full version of Kawamoto's Tabi is one of the films screening in Portland, USA on 13 October 2010. So see it, if you can.Current music: Avner Dorman – Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!♥

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Is there something wrong with the internet when the first I read of this announcement is in a most-of-a-week-old mainstream newspaper? Or possibly something very right with me, if this is the result of me laying off on the news feeds. Somehow, I doubt that explanation, though.Current music: Claudio Monteverdi – Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

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And we have a trailer! As should perhaps have been expected, there are little, very Ocelot moments like the hand-clap I'm stoked to see in their proper place but also some very slidey and computer-looking ones that worry me, though that's only to be expected considering this is computer animation and this is Ocelot. Still don't know when it's actually airing.Current music: Awful '90s, Mando-,

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ANGURA!Current music:-

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WANT.Current music: Edvard Grieg – Norwegian Dance 1 (four-hands piano original)

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Might be a good idea to mention That the UK DVD of Laloux and Caza's Gandahar – an excellent transfer and encoding and the only so far with English subtitles – is out of print, so get it while you can. If it's unavailable or more expensive at the usual outlets, it may still be available direct from Eureka with free shipping worldwide. The disc is all regions (despite what the packaging and

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Of Azur et Asmar on Saturday, 24 July in London, Jim Henson's Labyrinth on Friday, 30 July, Švankmajer's Alice on Friday, 30 and Saturday, 31, Filmax Animation's Nocturna on Saturday, 31 and Prinzessin Lillifee on Saturday, 28 and Sunday, 29 August in Stirling and Brendan in Berwick-upon-Tweed on Wednesday, 11 August.Leeds' Hyde Park Picture House are also showing the same Labyrinth sometime soon

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It's just been bought to my attention by HEEZA's newsletter that two DVD-Videos of African animated films with English, French and Spanish subtitles have been recently been released in France by annoyingly Web site-less éditeur P.O.M. films: one of films by various creators and another which is a focus on those of director Moustapha ALASSANE, with one mid-length live action film and three

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Azur et Asmar is screening at the Kino Digital in Kent this weekend (26 and 27 June).In the less immediate future there are also screenings of Brendan and the Secret of Kells coming up in Northumberland on Wednesday, 10 August and the Family Friendly Film Festival starting at the end of this month in Manchester, which, along with new international features and shorts, both older and new Disney

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After being unavailable on home video for several years, a collection of Caroline Leaf's films has finally been released on DVD-Video, in a bilingual French and English edition by Les Films du paradoxe. Nab it from Amazon.fr or Fnac.com; news comes via Catsuka.Current music: John Adams, or access, depending on whom asks me and excited for Seaming tonight.

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Fuzzules to René Laloux films, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Urusei Yatsura, ITÔ Junji, Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä, Faith and Emily Hubley and countless French comics (and I'm not even mentioning the several-generation descends of them that are Selick's Coraline and Cameron's Avatar, except that I just have). Nothing, and least of all TV documentaries shot on HD video, narrated by David

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                                    Sucks to you, piggy boy!    /QCurrent music: Harrison Birtwistle – Duets for Storab

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A retrospective of his films at Cinephilia West in London, UK on Sunday, 16 March. They're also be showing Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà (Raise the Red Lantern, 1991), not within the dominion of Le Palais but something else I like, on Tuesday, 18.

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Some of the BFI's recent season of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adaptations have been popping up around the country, with Jan Švankmajer's feature in Dorset's Rex Cinema on Tuesday 6 April and the Jonathan Miller directed TV in Cardiff's Chapter on Sunday, 4 April and Tuesday, 6 April, followed by Dreamchild and the aforementioned Švankmajer film later in the same month.Current music: Stephen

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"Minami no Shima no Hamehameha Daiô" ("Great King Hamehameha of the Southern Island," 1976)The sheer number of Minna no Utas that have accumulated after one year short of half a century of them, coupled with the ease of use and multilingual nature of YouTube has resulted in an audiovisual equivalent tof the box of Belgian langues de chat from Christmas that still need eating in providing

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The "only existing English subtitled print" of Laguionie's Gwen, Collet's Le Petit Dragon, subtitled prints of Na půdě, La Planète sauvage and much else are all set to be screened at the he New York International Children's Film Festival, which runs this year from 26 February to 21 March 2010.Also, added an Australian DVD release of The Secret of Kells to its respective videography (though I'm

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Just in from Sprockets (although it happened back in November '09): Inni Karine Melbye, animator and décoratrice of Ciné si and Les Contes de la nuit received the Life Time Achievement Award of the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in her native Norway, presented to her by Michel Ocelot. I, of course, now want to know the origin of the Norwegian-logo Princes et princesses shirt…Current music: Serge

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From the Wii game released in North America if not anywhere else as Domino Rally; I can't say anything either way for it as a game (even whom the developer of it is has eluded me) but I know that I'm powerless to resist circulating the above still.Current music: Baroque 'n' roll; Handel is EVERYWHERE (n.b. concept of "everywhere" may be somewhat distorted due to having got out very little this

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AniPages Daily recently posted reviews of Gwen, le livre de sable, bringing probably more knowledge of Jean-François Laguionie's first feature into the English language than there has ever been before, and new-ish feature My Dog Tulip. And though I don't like to be simply reposting news here, there are some things I cannot resist, and one of those is a teaser page for a new YUASA Masaaki-directed

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I love Minna no Uta. That, La Princesse insensible and Ciné si occupy a special little trinity in my heart (The Herbs and Clangers being somewhat divided from those if only by being in my native tongue and the regular characters). But in particular… Well, La Princesse insensible benefits hugely from being projected rather than on the television screens it was made for; that or looking at

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Tale of Tales will be in Wales, Penarth in particular, for a couple of weeks, hosing activities this Saturday (23 October) and next (the 31st).Queen Games have finally got their Web site properly up to date for the first time in several years, now with video demonstrations (I, naturally, much prefer them with the German narration, though I only understand the odd word, than the strongly

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I felt compelled to report on the confusingly named but impressive Manga Impact festival of anime in Locarno, Switzerland this year some posts ago. Funnily enough, the Locarno Film Festival's MySpace blog has since announced that one of the live events that will accompany the many screenings is a conversation (presumably in French) between Michel Ocelot and TAKAHATA Isao! Their mutual friendship

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It has been announced, in the very underhand way of being mentioned in the recently uploaded .pdf of their new print catalogue, that Laloux's La Planète sauvage is to be one of next films from the Masters of Cinema series back catalogue (the other being Godard's Une femme mariée) to be re-released on Blu-ray Disc! Considering their track record with the matter we can be pretty sure that it will

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The others very recent (i.e. mostly from my current sketchbook and in my currently preferred black and white); the first from GCSE or A-levels (there's no label on the book I scanned the spread from and I've largely forgotten what I did when).I don't know if I've mentioned it here before but I've recently been more seriously thinking about creating a more impressive-looking, portfolio Web site.

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Nord-Ouest's Web site has changed the title from Bergères et dragons to Dragons et princesses (though I suspect that even this might not end up being the final title) and, more disappointingly, the running time of each episode from 13 to 5 minutes. The number of episodes has also decreased – though quite sensibly, I believe, in this case – from 52 to 26, which still makes this his longest project

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On until 1 September this year (so you haven't missed all of it, but sorry that I've only just learnt of it in the local Metro to tell you) is the Small World International Short Animation Festival in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The programme this year includes KATÔ Kunio's La Maison en petits cubes and Lesley Barnes' Herzog and the Monsters among works famous and unfamiliar of the last few

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Also, from a Facebook page: "My four-year old granddaughter now has a new 'favourite movie in my whole life,' but she says, 'Don't tell Totoro!'"The same page also links to articles on the roles of colour designer YASUDA Michiyo and key animator, animation director and character designer KONDÔ Katsuya. The former in particular isn't particularity revealing, but her belief that "this Ponyo movie

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Daniel Thomas MacInnes' Conversations on Ghibli (in the blog list at the right) recently pointed out that Ponyo has become a top-ten "hot topic" on Twitter. The most strongly negative and positive responses I've noticed thus far are, respectively, that shelbyemustang "still doesn't understand the plot of Ponyo… Or why anyone in their right mind would want to see it?" and, quoted by haleyanna, "I

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I'm pretty sure that any readers in North America that I have will be sick of reading this – and those anywhere else, far more so – but I can't help but play my part in letting as many of you as possible know that Miyazaki Hayao's Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, 2008) is now out in cinemas in your part of the world: go to Fandango, MovieTickets.com or Moviefone and type in

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I generally make it a rule not to report on non-anglophone events (as I little enough time to write about those) but here is one I couldn't resist giving mention to. The organisers of the Locarno International Film Festival, in collaboration with Italy's National Cinema Museum have organised a festival of Japanese animation, to be presented in both Locarno and Torino, which includes – among

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The Panda Kopanda (Panda Baby Panda) films, if as the result of some horrific incident you don't already know, are two 30-something-minute cartoons directed by Takahata Isao from an original screenplay by Miyazaki Hayao, with Miyazaki also on art direction, layout and key animation, and are perhaps the cutest ever, as any still involving titular kopanda Pan-chan or the second film's Tora-chan,

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Brendan and the Secret of Kells is being screened at the Cineworld in Edinburgh on Saturday, 20 June 2009 at 17:00 (5:00 PM). As a one-off event, it doesn't appear on their Web site but I was still able to learn of it through Find Any Film.

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Azur et Asmar will be screened at the BAM Rose Cinema in Brooklyn, New York, USA on Monday, 25 May 2009 (tomorrow afternoon, click here to book and for more info) and then at the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness, West Lothian, Scotland on Saturday, 30 May 2009 (next week). Thanks to ASIFA East and Find Any Film.

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My list of 2D and Stop-Motion Animation on Region B Blu-ray Disc has been updated with a few new additions (the most notable being Akira), space being made for them by removing some USA import releases.Current music: The Mummers – "March of the Dawn"

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Kirikou et la sorcière will be screened at the Pictureville Cinema in the National Media Museum on Saturday, 20 and Sunday, 21 June. Looks to be the English dub recorded in South Africa (with Antoinette Kellermann etc.) but is only £1.00 a seat for any age.

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Another two stories from the cancelled Kirikou magazine were published in book form in France last month: Kirikou et le pot à lait ensorcelé (Kirikou and the Ensorcelled Pot of Milk, or Kirikou and the Pot of Ensorcelled Milk – I'd need to have read the story to know which translation is correct) and Kirikou et l'oncle disparu (Kirikou and the Missing Uncle).Current music: Aural Vampire – "Shônan

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This, and this one.Current music: The Mikado – "From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect"

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Sītā Sings the Blues is being toured around the United Kingdom from May to July this year (and the Netherlands in August) by the Groovy Movie Picture House (by "house" they mean "big top tent").Also, an English-booklet version of Brendan and the Secret of Kells' original soundtrack has been released in the Republic of Ireland under performers Kíla's own label.Current music: Kíla – "Boy Racer," HK

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Have just discovered via Electric Sheep's newsletter, and just have time to make a quick post about, the Barbican Centre's Animate the World season, which includes screenings of René Laloux's La Planète sauvage and Gandahar (both on Monday, 6 April), the first two episodes of GONZO's renowned Gankutsuô, directed by MAEDA Mahiro, Satrapi and Winshluss' Persepolis film, Peur[s] du noir, The Animal

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Brendan and the Secret of Kells will be screening for a few days (Friday, 27 to Sunday, 29 March) at the Savoy Cinema in Stockport, Greater Manchester (news thanks to Find Any Film).And as an update on what was previously announced, it seems that Rich Mix in Shoreditch, London will be showing not Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages, as previously stated, but Kirikou et la sorcière instead this weekend.

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Via Falling Sky, via Enrico Casarosa's blog: an AWN interview with UESUGI Tadahiro notable not so much for the words as for the location concept art, and in particular the KATAYAMA Wakako/CHI Cheng-like "Fantastic Garden." Perhaps I had a too narrow an idea of the extent of Uesugi's imaginative world and of what something based on the work of Neil Gaiman should look like, but I was for a long

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From the Azur et Asmar Twitter: Ocelot himself will be in attendance at the screenings of Azur et Asmar on Friday, 6 March 2009 in San Francisco, presenting an introduction before and Q&A after the film and the same for a free screening of Kirikou et la sorcière on Wednesday, 4 March 2009.From the Blog of Kells: Brendan and the Secret of Kells is now out in cinemas across France and Belgium, as

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Azur et Asmar will be screening at the MacRobert Arts Centre in Stirling and Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday, 31 January. Rich Mix will also be showing Azur again on Sunday, 1 February and – here's the really unexpected part – Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages on Saturday, 28 and Sunday, 29 March (subtitled, of course, as there's no English dub of this latter film). But on the subject

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I would be grateful if anyone with more knowledge of French than I could summarise what is happening to this garden and what M. Ocelot's involvement with it is.

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Folimage's now classic television special L'Enfant au grelot (aka The Bell-Child, Charlie's Christmas or, in this case,Nollaig Eardsaidh will be showing on BBC Two on 24 December 2008 at 07:30 AM, but only in Scotland.Current music: Slumdog Millionaire's soundtrack

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Though its release date fluctuated for a while, The Fairy Tale Films is now out on DVD-Video from the BFI. The main page of their online film store now displays a still from one of the films (Mary's Birthday, I believe, or possibly Thumbelina) while the overall index page is currently displaying, the last time I checked, a still from her colour cut-out film of The Frog Prince.A few more UK

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Showing at Harkins Valley Art in Tempe at 14:00 every day for a week, from 12 to 18 December 2008.Current music: Martina Topley-Bird – "Phoenix"

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Azur et Asmar will be the opening night gala film of the San Joaquin Children's Film Festival in Stockton, California, USA on 16 January 2009 (with one additional, afternoon screening on the 18 January).

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Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot does have English subtitles. Even for the documentary sections. This is a very good thing. I only wish that France Télévisions had thought to mention this on the back cover so that shops selling it were aware of this. No one was selling it for less than the RRP of €20 when I trawled the shops for it (which, with postage to the United Kingdom, comes out at about

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Mia et le Migou, Cykelmyggen og Dansemyggen, two episodes of Lilla spöket Laban (a series based on some '60s picture books which I very much like the style of) and Yamamura's Kodomo no Keijijogaku are all being shown in London by the British Film Institute this month and next.Current music: Tom Waits - "Little Drop of Poison"

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I've been intending to write out this for months on end; for some the information may already be too late but there are (hopefully) others for which it should still be of some use.I mentioned some time ago that the portmanteau feature Peur[s] du noir (Fear[s] of the Dark, 2007) - the latest in a trend amongst French animated features which, together, seem to have made black and white into almost

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Les trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot.flvby pointgmagazine7e Fête mondiale du cinéma d'animationby pointgmagazineThank you, I think, to POINT G magazine for posting links to these on the Ocelot MySpace page. Greater thanks will be bestowed on anyone willing to transcribe and/or translate these interviews.Current music: Feist – "My Moon My Man"

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Whatever subdivision of this topic I eventually come to cover in my dissertation, I thought it may be useful to have, somewhere near the beginning, some thoughts on what animation as a whole constitutes, the difficulties posed by the defining the word considering what it used for today and what I will use it to mean in the context of my writings on it. Unfortunately, what was intended to be

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A collection of Lotte Reiniger's short films, entitled Fairy Tales will be released in the United Kingdom by the British Film Institute on 17 November 2008. I've also, on a whim (perhaps induced by though of university beginning again this Wednesday), assembled a list of Traditional and Stop-Motion Animation on Blu-ray Disc. Even limiting myself to what can be found on Amazon.co.uk, it's still a

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From the Los Angeles Times, via Drawn! comes a gallery of on-set photos from the making of Henry Selick's Coraline. I… Had no idea that stop-motion features, even Selick's, could be this big. Also from there, the Totoro Forest Project trailer is cute (the artwork produced for this exasperates me, yet again, as to why Pixar just don't fucking do an actual traditional animation – design-wise, at

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At the Branchage Festival in St. Helier, to be specific, on the 27 September 2008. Just because the DVD is long out doesn't mean that cinema showings can't continue to wow. And this one is accompanied by some live "pre-screening entertainment…"Current music: Computer noise (i.e. none).

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A recent google image search resulted in me happening across the archives of the French-language blog Susume ! and within them, an interesting discovery – that best-selling J-Rockers GLAY's 2006 single "Natsuoto" ("Summer Note/Sound") was accompanied by a video (view stills or watch online) and sleeve artwork which looks to be strongly influenced by Reiniger and Ocelot (in the silhouettes,

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I first read of this portmanteau film based on the Meiji-era serial by Natsume Sôseki (of I Am a Cat and Botchan fame) at least a year ago at Anime News Service, from whence the above image is also taken – though mostly live action (and including segments by ex-animation director Ichikawa Kon and the director of Koi no Mon) one is co-directed by Amano Yoshitaka and painted in the full watercolour

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It's been reported in so many high-profile newsfeeds already that it's hardly worth humble little me reporting it as well, but so important I'd feel a bit stupid not doing so. Peter van der Lugt of GhibliWorld.com has just today posted an enormous, multi-hour conversation with Michel Ocelot (I haven't even finished reading it myself yet). It reveals many new and old details, including, most

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If you know more of the French language than I do (i.e. have studied it beyond Year 9/Key Stage 3) then I would much appreciate your help for one thing, with possibility of others in the future if you still have time for them. I want you, if you fit this criteria, to check through my first-pass translation of a circa-1990 interview with Ocelot and make any suggestions that you can for how to

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The Blu-ray Discs of Kirikou et la sorcière, Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages and Kirikou et Karaba went on sale today and, most unfortunately, it looks like every one is region locked and lacking in English subtitles. Azur et Asmar will also get a Blu-ray release in France — on 27 November 2008 — according to Hi-Def Release Lists; the videography pages have been updated with what info I can find.

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Or, "Pônyo Pônyo Ponyo, It's a Fish Kid…" I can't decide between them, not at this hour. Anyway, the below is a post I first made on the Björk.com/unity 4UM, with alternations to take into account how events have progressed since then. It should be the first of a few posts which I've been working on while away from both home and internet access, though I wouldn't advise holding your breath for

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Kirikou et la sorcière, Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages and Kirikou et Karaba are all to get the Blu-ray treatment in their native France and are now up for pre-order (Kirikou et Karaba will also be available on DVD-Video). Meanwhile, the shorts collection and its Azur et Asmar OVA have names – Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot (The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot) and Les Noces d'Azur et Asmar

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No, it's not October yet, but the poster for this year's International Animation Day has been unveiled and this year's is designed by Michel Ocelot! (You may remember that I posted last year's; I still don't know who's responsible for that one.) A cause for celebration and a celebratory image indeed. But don't the characters look just like Luísa Cortesao's style but in silhouette (as well as

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Oh Señor TV, that's only to be expected when you employ mutated rat-men rather than able-bodied humans. Although it could be possible that rat-men have an inherent lack of conscience which makes them suited to doing his bidding. Yes, I saw Esteban Sapir's second of two features on what is now two evenings ago (though, as I'll go on explain, it's Leo Sujatovich who owns this film) and decided to

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Japanese DJ DAISHI DANCE has recently released an album of remixes and covers of Ghibli-related music, as reported at GhibliWorld.com. The most notable thing about this for me is that the opening track is "Kimi o Nosete" – but an English version of "Kimi o Nosete." I believe this is the first time that this song has received English lyrics timed with the music, though I do wonder what was done

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As ANN reports, the Minwa-za Company of Tôkyô will be performing a magic lantern/phantasmagoria (called utsushi-e in Japanese) show at several locations in the United States. In case the article disappears, they also linked to an English language Web site on the history of the tradition in Japan.And something else I read about on ANN: Akiba-chan. While they claim it to be stop-motion, watching

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This began as a comment on this post by Wabi Sabi, but I may as well expand it for use as one of my ongoing "notes."There are "blanks" of a few different kinds, or something like them, in Takahata's Taiyô no Ôji: Hols no Daibôken. Most could fall under the more standard categories of "dramatic irony" or "things we're led to think are one thing which turn out to be another" but one which really

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Am in the process of converting my blogroll to one of those newfangled Blog List things. Not quite finished yet, as of writing. I've decided to weed out those which have gone unupdated for a matter of years, while adding in any in any new addictions which I haven't already done so. What I'm not so sure about is those which I no longer check regularly, but used to. At the moment I'm erring on side

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The animated feature film of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, a.k.a. Winshluss) will be released on both DVD-Video and Blu-ray Disc in both North America and the British Isles in the next few months: 24 June 2008 in the USA and 18 August 2008 in the UK.I also thought it worth mentioning that Blue Underground in North America are planning to release Ralph Bakshi's

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Yes, I know I said that it would probably never happen. But guess what – it just did. After bringing the work of another ofmy favourite animators to North America, Kino International's KimStim Collection have now turned their attention to my number one, and are releasing Princes et princesses (as Princes and Princesses for the first time on domestic DVD in the USA and, more importantly, Kirikou

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Came across some Brendan artwork which shows an earlier character design, some (seemingly) more recent production art and finally this blog by an Italian animator who has worked on both Brendan and Skunk Fu!

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You are some very lucky buckies, you-few-who-read-this. I've just noticed that Celluloid Dreams' Web site has a lengthy, English-subtitled extract from Folimage's Mia et le Migou (not released even in France until 3 December 2008) and a proper trailer (a teaser appeared on Catsuka a while ago) for Cartoon Saloon's Les Armateurs-produced feature Brendan and the Secret of Kells. There is also a

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Character designs, director's statement and a few clues on the story of Na půdě, if you can find them within the the page of hyperbolic marketing speak which they are, unfortunately, thoroughly burred under. From what I can gather, the basic story is that a doll is held captive by a plaster head, and so a band of other toys journey into the attic so to rescue their friend, all unbeknownst to the

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Firstly, on the matter of Ocelot's short films DVD: the bad news is that, in order for the DVD as a whole to be suitable for children, it doesn't look like it will be including Les Quatres vœux du Vilain. But what it will have, in place of this, is something new – an alternate ending to Azur et Asmar, based on an idea conceived by some Moroccan children the film was shown to.Secondly, on some

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Now I've decided that the dissertation I will be starting to write this summer will at least majorly involve Ocelot, I have an excuse to start recording my thoughts on his creations. To start us off, what themes, topic or preoccupations come to mind when we think of Ocelot?Fairy talesThe Golden AgeThe fetish of the long shotThe theatreThe honesty of the theatre in being fakeMorals which are

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Persepolis arrives in UK cinemas tomorrow (24 April 2008). See my page on the film and the new UK official site. The subtitled version is being made available, but only as a digital projection.Current music: Alela Diane – The Pirate's Gospel

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Verbal Spew has some interesting thoughts on the cutout animation style of Odin Sphere and other games by Vanillaware (which I have, among other things, been obsessing over for the past few days). Interesting, and relevant, because according to his description, it seems to use the same jointed/un-jointed fusion which gave KAWAMOTO Kihachirô's Tabi that rare and beautiful quality of freeness and

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