The image of a squarefaced old man dragging his hovering house behind him through a dreamscape jungle feels pulled straight out of the deepest Fruedian recesses of the unconscious. Pixar’s latest triumph, Up , is packed with such images, along with the considerable voice talent Ed Asner as the old guy, Carl Fredrickson.
Review by Noah Mallin Notice I said “film” in the headline and not animation. Oh Wall-E, like the rest of Pixar’s films is the result of gloriously detailed brilliantly rendered computer animation all right. There are people who loathe animation, who think it’s kid’s stuff, or that it’s not serious. Those people are idiots. OK, [...]
Saul Bass is one of the greatest graphic artists of the twentieth century, designing iconic credit sequences for such films as The Man With The Golden Arm. Now some smarty, arty pants has imagined what the Star Wars credit sequence would have looked like a la Bass: Here’s the actual factual Bass’ sequence for It’s [...]
As The New York Times reports today (registration required) BET has a new set of animated promotions that bring to mind MTV in it’s late 80′s heyday of mixing music video programming with self-referential and sometimes even avant-garde promos. The question being raised is whether the satire “Read a Book” is racist? I’ll let you [...]
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