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Doc NYC Review: 'Persistence of Vision' Is A Heartbreaking Account Of A Thwarted Animated Masterpiece
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- November 9, 2012 2:05 PM
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When Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis needed a team to provide animation for their ambitious hybrid "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," they didn't turn to their own team at Disney Feature Animation who, with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," singlehandedly invented the animated feature (and was responsible for the medium's continued popularity). Instead, Spielberg and company turned to Richard Williams, an eccentric, Canadian-born animator who ran an animation studio and ad agency in London and who, quite recently, had been responsible for developing a technology to shade animated characters that were inserted into live action plates. The collaboration was a rousing success, netting Williams a pair of Oscars, but his directorial debut, "The Thief and the Cobbler," wasn't so lucky. "Persistence of Vision" explores the monomania of a man determined to push the envelope of the medium, until the envelope explodes.
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Agreed Charlize is Gone Girl material. Don't really have a clear image of actress for Libby
slight OT but did any of the playlist team at cannes catch the Film4 presentation ? Guardian and
If he'll be in the movie, I will wacht him a thousand times **
Yeah, makes you wander who paid for that ranking. I would think Time would be over the today's
What about Charlize?
Why this film is taken seriously is beyond me. It's a hyper-stylized piece of commercialized
He's hardly mute in the particularly heavy scenes in Drive, which I assume you're also
Not having read the book before, or seen any incarnation of it... I can safely say while seeing this
Hm Sean's casting makes things more interesting, perhaps he's reprising his "Jeff
I'm just glad not everybody does it the way Lou thinks it ought to be done.