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  • 22 Feb

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    All Oscar Nominated Shorts Online

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    Madame Tutli-PutliWanna really impress your friends at your Oscar party? Want to have more to say at the Live, RowThree.com “There Will Be Blog” experience on Sunday night? Now you can have more to say in the middle of the evening when some of the more obscure awards are given out by seeing all of the Oscar nominated live-action and animated shorts.

    Some of these films, although not as widely recognized as the main stream, full length feature stuff, are perfect examples of hard work, innovation and quite often brilliance in the art of film. It’s looking like this year is no exception and proves that small indie film makers are just as, if not more, important than the heavy hitters.

    Unbeknownst to me (and thanks to Sean from FilmJunk for pointing me in this direction), most of the shorts are already online over at YouTube (which is pretty much becoming the greatest web site to ever exist). Instead of searching for them all yourself, I’ve placed all of them under the seat here in the third row. I haven’t watched them all yet, but I can tell you that Madame Tutli-Putli is easily worth the 17 minutes of your life for one creepy train ride.

    check em all out right here:
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  • 21 Feb

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    DiCaprio’s Akira is Coming

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    AkiraTodd over at Twitch just posted a little news blurb that the Leonardo DiCaprio produced live action version of Akira is coming. The 6 book manga series will be broken up into two movies and they will be directed by Ruari Robinson. If you don’t know Akira tells the story of a Sport Bike Gang who become involved with a government secret experiment dealing with psychic powers. I would have to say that it was the first real successful animé to break into North America. I’m actually amazed that it has taken this long for someone to bring the story over to live action. I’m not sure if I’m looking forward to this. As Todd put is there is a good chance that the two movies will follow the original manga closer than the single original movie but I just have a bad feeling this could end up being one of those direct to DVD science fiction movies.

    Update: I just found the following over at Film Junk

    Ain’t It Cool News claims that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick, The Lookout) has been cast as Tetsuo in the film as well. If there’s any young actor out there with the chops to pull off this role, it’s gotta be him. Needless to say, this just jumped up on my list of anticipated movies for next year.

    Just like Sean from Film Junk says I am now interested and I take back anything I said about it being one of those direct to DVD movies. I’d love to see see Gordon-Levitt in the Tetsuo role. And while DiCaprio is only listed as producing perhaps he might also star along with Gordon-Levitt.

  • 06 Feb

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    “Chicago 10″ Trailer

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    Chicago 10 posterIt’s rare that I go to a screening and see a trailer I haven’t already seen online somewhere. Last night I was treated to this little film that looks to be a real gem. With the recent raves we’ve had at RowThree about various “adult-themed” animated films as of late (Ratatouille, Persepolis, Tekkin Kinkreet, Aachi & Ssipak, A Scanner Darkly, Madame Tutli-Putli, etc) here’s one that really looks to throw a monkey in the wrench, so to speak, with a bit of live action, archival footage interspersed with a trial in 3-D animation: Chicago 10.

    The film covers the 1968 Democratic convention and with animated reeneactments, portrays the outrageous trial that followed – which turned into an “absurdist spectacle.” Looking a bit like the rotoscoping technique we’ve seen in films such as Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly, but with not quite the same kind of fluid realism – but bold and beautiful none the less. Apparently it has an equally crazy, but impressive, soundtrack as well; including tracks from The Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, Steppenwolf and Eminem.

    With an all star cast of voices including Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber and Jeffrey Wright, I think the animation fans among us are in for a real treat here. Though I haven’t heard much about it until now, it’s scheduled for a release date of Feb 29… THIS year! Check out the trailer below.

     

    Chicago 10 Trailer [ 0:01 | 11.06 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup

     
    If you’re nuts and don’t have Quicktime, there’s a flash version over here.

  • 20 Jan

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    Red Princess Blues: The Book of Violence

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    Red Princess Blues posterQuite some time back, I had the opportunity to check out a short film entitled B R O K E N by writer/director Alex Ferrari. It was an amazing feat for such a small budget short film with great action, great kills and an interesting and “I wanna see more” type of storyline. So when Alex let me know about his newest film, this time an animated film entitled Red Princess Blues, I was more than eager to have a look.

    Red Princess Blues: The Book of Violence is an animated prequel to the upcoming feature length, live-action film, written by Alex Ferrari and the directorial debut of Dan Cregan, who worked as the visual effects supervisor on B R O K E N.

    In this tale we meet Princess as a 12 year old little girl who finds herself in a strange country looking for her father. She is then taken in by a “unique” looking man who goes by Nino. The short film is completely from the perspective of Princess and what she is going through. She soon discovers the “Book of Violence” and slowly begins her journey that one day will lead to vengeance.

    As one who’s not particularly interested in animation of this style, I have to admit that the animation is gorgeous. Each segment is a mix of both true animation and also still frames in which the “camera” is able to move around in. Each segment is hand drawn and the details are equisite.

    While there’s not much of a story here (as it’s only 7 minutes long), it sets up nicely what is sure to become a great action-oriented, indie feature with a strong, female, lead performance by the lovely Paula Garces (Harold and Kumar 1 & 2, FX’s “The Shield”). I’ll be sure to be watching for the release of this film as soon as it’s available.

    But hey, don’t take my word for it, you can head over to LatinoRaview and check out the full version of this short, animated prequel. Feel free to leave your thoughts below, but I’m sure you’ll see the technical wizardry in the animation right from the get-go.


    Paula Garces

    Links:
    See the short HERE
    IMDb profile – full cast and crew
    Official Site
    MySpace Profile for Red Princess Blues

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