Last year, Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis grabbed the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, helping to launch it on the road to international fame. It also brought a greater realization that animated films could be taken as seriously as their live-action brethren. Now, with Satrapi serving on this year’s Cannes jury, Waltz With Bashir, […]
Entries from May 2008
Waltz with Bashir
May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Documentary films · Israeli cinema
Joanna Priestley
May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The following was originally written in December 2004 for Skwigly Animation Magazine, a British online journal that subsequently went out of business; though parts of the magazine’s site can still be seen on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, this article cannot It was written on the occasion of the release of Priestly […]
Tags: Filmmakers · Independent animators