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...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 CGI hits--DreamWorks' Madagascar, Disney's Chicken Little and Fox's Robots--got shut...
...BEST ANIMATED FILM "Howl's Moving Castle" "Corpse Bride" "Wallace & Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
...CORLISS FAVORITE: Wallace & Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit LIKELY WINNER: Wallace & Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
Disney's lineup includes next December's eccentric time-travel tale Meet the Robinsons, with a critter comedy, American Dog, and a familiar fairy tale, Rapunzel, in years ahead. Set for 2007 is Enchanted, a live-action-plus-animation hybrid à la Roger Rabbit, about a storybook princess who enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner...
JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS RABBIT FUR COAT On a brief vacation from the rock band Rilo Kiley, Lewis takes exuberant steps in lots of musical directions. From the gospel rhythm and secular doubt of The Big Guns ("I've won hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with...