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Where have all the pixels gone? That's what cartoon mavens were asking about the Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio...
Directed by Mike Barker (Lion’s Gate Films, Inc.) 1 1/2 stars Oscar Wilde once said “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” This sentiment seems to hold true for “A Good Woman”, Director Mike Barker’s (“To Kill A King”) adaptation of Wilde’s play “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” The basic idea for the film sounds rather appealing—aging...
...what counts is being correct. And in consequence, men have very conservative dress patterns. To be quite honest, I think most men would like to dress the way they did when they were about 12 or 14.THC: Are you inspired by any specific literary dilettantes? Ernest Hemingway? Henry Miller? Oscar Wilde? John Milton?GT: Not Oscar Wilde, though he was a great dresser. One of the most important things he said was that a gentleman’s clothes must always hang from his shoulders. John Milton was a very interesting, understated dresser. But the literary dilettante I am most...
...lines, movie’s producers decided that Forbess’ voice sounded too much like that of co-star Jonathan Taylor Thomas ’01, who played young Simba, and they subsequently recast the role. Although her voice didn’t make it into the Oscar-winning, $320-million-grossing blockbuster, Forbess still appeared in the film indirectly. The day she was recording, animator Aaron Blaise was in the studio to meet with the producers. After catching a glimpse of Forbess in the sound booth, Blaise found his inspiration. Then and there, he began sketching young Nala...
...ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green eyes the size of saucers...