Empire’s 4-star review raves “Spielberg has brought a boy’s heart, an artist’s guile, and a movie-lover’s wit” to Tintin: From the Nouvelle Vague flourish of the opening credits, featuring Tintin in silhouette dashing past giant typewriters and former foes, recalling the Saul Bass-themed curtain raiser of Catch Me If You Can, set off by John Williams’...
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Adventures of Tintin from James Curran on Vimeo. Tintin had his London premiere a few hours ago. Duncan Jones (Moon) says: So! Tintin. You know my worry from the trailer about the uncanny valley? Im full of shit. Works great. As for 3D… STILL not sold on it! While we collect some other first impressions, take a look at this fanmade credit animation by James...
Thanks to Tero for the heads up. Full press release via MCN: Michael Kutza, Founder and Artistic Director of the Chicago International Film Festival, Mimi Plauché, Head of Programming, and Programmers Penny Bartlett and Lee Ferdinand and Competitions Coordinator Alex Kopecky proudly announce the winners of the 47th Chicago International Film Festival Competitions....
In an ongoing dialogue between the two major critics at the Times, Manohla Dargis and AO Scott on film criticism today: Dargis: As critics, all we have are our beliefs, ideals, prejudices, blind spots, our reservoirs of historical and personal knowledge, and the strength of our arguments. There are empirical truths that we can say about a movie: it was shot in black and...
