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Ernest & Celestine

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"The Big Bad Fox" is Pure Delight

“The Big Bad Fox” is Pure Delight

From Aesop’s Fables to the Fantastic Mr. Fox, stories of the complicated relationships between chickens and foxes have been told and imagined throughout history. The Big Bad Fox manages to find a new tale to tell with slapstick bravado. Author, Benjamin Rennerdoesn’t shy away from the tropes and pieces of the stories that we already know, fox digging into the farm, lazy farm dog who never catches…

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Ernest & Celestine - Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

Ernest & Celestine – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview

Despite living in separate worlds, in which one world fears the inhabitants of another, a mouse and a bear find themselves developing an almost parent/ child friendship.

Review (with Spoilers)

This was an academy award nominee amongst The Wind Rises, and the overrated Frozen, and unfortunately wasn’t available to me around the time of the ceremony. But after watching it, I’m starting to…

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Ernest & Celestine Movie Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1rmOYLr2U Ernest & Celestine is a film is based on a series of children's books of the same name published by the Belgian author and illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. Terrific style of watercolor and ink illustration. Read more about Ernest & Celestine HERE

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The Tuesday Zone: Storybook Pleasures with 'Ernest & Celestine' (2013)

The Tuesday Zone: Storybook Pleasures with ‘Ernest & Celestine’ (2013)

Last week, I reviewed The Wind Rises, which is a great example of mature storytelling in the animated form, but I will always find the charm of children’s animated movies particularly enchanting. I was, as a result, excited to watch Ernest & Celestine, a French-Belgian movie directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner that came out last year (well, at least in any form I…

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In Cinemas Thu June 19, 2014

There are far too many films releasing this week, mainly limited once again and they’re all gonna get butchered by overcrowding.

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Ernest & Celestine - L'avventura delle sette note

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati a parlare di horror e più nello specifico di un B-movie degli anni ’70 diretta da uno dei miei registi preferiti in assoluto, un regista capace di creare grandi opere con poco ossia Mario Bava con il suo Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga. Peter Kleist è un giovane studioso che è andato in Austria da suo zio per…

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Making of Ernest & Celestine

Making of Ernest & Celestine

Look into the computer animation techniques, Ernest & Celestine’s director Benjamin Renner,  used to give his Oscar-nominated feature its hand-drawn, minimalist aesthetic.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION OF “ERNEST & CELESTINE” TO PREMIERE JANUARY 18 AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

AWARD-WINNING FILM FEATURES THE VOICES OF

FOREST WHITAKER, MACKENZIE FOY,

LAUREN BACALL, PAUL GIAMATTI, WILLIAM H. MACY,

MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN, JEFFREY WRIGHT

  “E&C” IS COMPETING FOR OSCARS, ANNIES AND GOLDEN GLOBES

IN ORIGINAL FRENCH VERSION

  New York, New York – December 5, 2013 – GKIDS, a distributor of award-winning animation for both adult and family audiences, has announced that the English language version of ERNEST & CELESTINE will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18.  The film opens theatrically on March 14 in New York and Los Angeles, followed by national expansion to all major US markets.

  ERNEST & CELESTINE is the charming and beautifully hand-drawn new feature from the creators of the Academy Award® nominated Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells.  The voice cast includes Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Mackenzie Foy (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep), Paul Giamatti (John Adams), William H. Macy (Fargo), Megan Mullally (Will and Grace), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), and Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire).

  The original French language version of ERNEST & CELESTINE premiered at Cannes, is the winner of France’s Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature, and currently has a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes.com. GKIDS is qualifying the film for the 2014 Academy Awards® in the Best Animated Feature category, where the company has had past success with The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, and Chico & Rita.  The film is qualifying for awards consideration in the original French language version.  It was nominated for six Annie Awards earlier this week, the most for any independent or internationally produced film.  In addition to Best Animated Feature, the film received nods for directing, writing, production design, character animation and editing in an animated feature.

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Release date: May 23, 2012

Country: France, Belgium

Distributed By: La Parti Productions, Les Armateurs, Maybe Movies

Directors: Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier

Screenplay: Daniel Pennac

Cast: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner, Dominique Maurin, Anne-Marie Loop

Producers: Henri Magalon, Didier Brunner, Vincent Tavier, Jean-Paul Commin

Production History: The directors of "A Town Called Panic", and award-winning puppetoon French film, experiment with yet another animation medium for this sweet film.

Synopsis: The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.

My thoughts: Honestly, I hadn't heard much about this film until recently.  When I finally got around to watching the trailer, however, I was blown away.  The animation style looks like a classic children's book come to life, with a soft watercolor look and great voices that only enhances the illusion.  The characters look very likable, and while the clip we were shown looks very silly there looks like there could be a lot of depth in  this friendship that the trailer doesn't show.  I've never seen the previous movies of this project's directors, but they seem to have done well with audiences and award circles, and this one should follow suit.  It has already been screened at both Cannes and TIFF, and early reports from people who have seen it have said that it is a great film, so I hope it gets a North American release.  Right now, I consider this a must-see!

Tomorrow, check out my Escape From Planet Earth preview!

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MIFFdump the second — 5 august, 2012

in another country

it’s difficult to be critical when a film is so sparely intent on grabbing your heart and does – the collaboratively animated charmer ernest & celestine [france/luxembourg/belgium, ★★★☆☆] by debutant benjamin renner (with stéphanie aubier and vincent patar) being case in point. the faintly pastel-washed backdrops – offering as if to highlight their very analogueness only the bare minimum of detail required by the story – provide the delicate setting for the antics of mouse celestine and bear ernest, two misfits of their respective classes that would be artists both if only their societies would let them.

to say that hong sang-hoo’s in another country [south korea, ★★★★☆] is an ultimately pointless affair is not to undersell, i hope, its sheer effectiveness as a movie, regardless and in spite of it’s apparent slightness (though being directly compared to michel gondry’s incredible eternal sunshine of the spotless mind probably doesn’t help expectations either). but in another country is interested only in working within its own logic; the setting in boring coastal korea, the frenchwoman named anne, the classic cross-cultural collisions that offer up both hilarity and a kind of reduction of human interaction to the barely essential that reminds us of the sweetness of communicating simply to one another.

isabelle huppert marks a turn five or six notches removed from the sadomasochistic piano teachers and uptight middle-aged daughters she usually reserves for michael haneke to give us three variants of the vivacous (and sometimes not so) anne, framed by the escapist pen of bored film student won-ju in, i guess, the ‘reality’ of this universe. but with whimsicality and an enduring sense for the comic, hong tints anne’s exchanges with playfully divergent and convergent accents and scenes between his heroine and the three or four korean men with which she’ll romantically intertwine, giving us enough interpretative ammunition to find something real in them all – and therin lies its joys. there are so many hints that in another country might go somewhere, a teasing echochamber of maguffins and repeated situations along its briskly-passing 89 minutes, but one increasingly senses that the point with hong is more that we enjoy the going.

within seconds i was enthralled with almayer’s folly (la folie almayer) [france/belgium, 2011, ★★☆☆☆], chantal akerman’s adaptation of joseph conrad’s first novel, which opens through a claustrophobic malayan jungle to emerge in a hypnotically-paced beachside concert scene enitrely reminiscent of david lynch’s silencio, such was its gripping conveyance of the unknown and our compulsion toward it. in truth i wasn’t the only one on the edge of my seat, almayer’s folly being the film in the two hours to follow to register the single most walkouts from a festival session i’ve henceforth witnessed.

while i wasn’t one of the horde, it’s not hard to see why. almayer’s folly progresses slowly, with a substantial degree of indulgence to its avant-gardist experimentation with the plight of the colonial oppressed, it’s lack of directly relatable performances and its strange sense of datedness in both formal and aesthetic terms (though i did like the ballsiness of title-carding her flashback merely before. somewhere else.) akerman finishes almayer’s slowburn strongly, with an attempted catharsis between almayer [stanislas merhar, cold] and his estranged halfcaste daughter nina [aurora marion, a corpse] – characters we’ve seen to have little heart, and who even remind us with lines like ‘i’m already dead’. but her daringly elongated takes and soliloquys to madness feel as if they belong in another heyday: the late 70’s of apocalypse now, even, where she might have found a more receptive environment for her ambitions.

the ever-beguiling mise-en-scene that opened abbas kiarostami’s like someone in love [france/japan, ★★★☆☆]  proved to be just the required change of pace at the business end of the evening; his clean, clear digital cinematography giving way almost instantly to a frustrating sense of clouded displacement between us and our narrator. and continuing the pattern of elastically ungraspable storytelling of his last film, 2010’s certified copy, like someone in love doesn’t let up, either, on the simple answers or neat resolutions.

following a night-and-morning after of pretty, appropriately-alienated japanese escort akiko [rin takanashi] who’s been assigned to the companionship of a professor [tadashi okuno] old enough to be her grandfather, kiarostami dodges the sex (and thus some pretty incessant awkwardness) to probe at the social normatives of the situtation, the situation after that, and the one after that, but not the one that follows all of those, just to madden you. it’s superbly confident filmmaking if a little familiar to those that loved certified copy, a film of shrewdly lurid wisdom if your perceptiveness is keen enough, and on the flipside, irritating opacity and – in its heart-stopping finale – even a sense of cowardice for those unfamiliar with kiarostami’s previous work. while like someone in love doesn’t quite attain the mindspinning heights of certified copy, let alone the more personal vision of the taste of cherry, it’s evidence of perhaps the director's most successful film to date in grasping a sense of true and tender human feeling.

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GKIDS ANNOUNCES THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VOICE CAST FOR “ERNEST & CELESTINE

VOICE CAST INCLUDES:

FOREST WHITAKER – as “Ernest”

MACKENZIE FOY – as “Celestine”

LAUREN BACALL

PAUL GIAMATTI

WILLIAM H. MACY

MEGAN MULLALLY

NICK OFFERMAN

JEFFREY WRIGHT

  AWARD-WINNING FILM COMPETING FOR OSCARS, ANNIES, GOLDEN GLOBES

New York, New York – November 8, 2013 – GKIDS, a distributor of award-winning animation for both adult and family audiences, has announced the English voice cast for ERNEST & CELESTINE, the charming and beautifully hand-drawn new feature from the creators of the Academy Award® nominated Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells.  ERNEST & CELESTINE premiered at Cannes, has played Toronto, London, Los Angeles and other prestigious film festivals, is the winner of France’s Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature and numerous festival prizes, and currently has a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes.com.

GKIDS is qualifying the film for the Academy Awards® in the Best Animated Feature category, where the company has had past success with The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, and Chico & Rita.

The just-completed English language voice cast includes Academy Award,® Emmy,® Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Mackenzie Foy (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Academy Award® and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner  Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep), Academy Award® nominee and Emmy,® Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Paul Giamatti (John Adams), Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee and Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner William H. Macy (Fargo), Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and Golden Globe® nominee Megan Mullally (Will and Grace), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), and Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire).  Voice recording was completed in New York and Los Angeles.

ABOUT ERNEST & CELESTINE

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells comes a visually stunning, enormously entertaining new film with generation-spanning appeal.  Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities.

  Fresh from standing ovations at Cannes and Toronto, ERNEST & CELESTINE joyfully leaps across genres and influences to capture the kinetic, limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a watercolor painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton, Bugs Bunny and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde.  Based on the Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, ERNEST & CELESTINE is winner of the Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature and numerous festival prizes.

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Ernest & Celestine Trailer