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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 58

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug.

ACP News:

• Pixar´s Toy Story 3 debuts at nr. 1 .The third animated feature to pass $100 million in its opening weekend.
• Pogo´s releases 2 new songs from Toy Story & Toy Story 2
• Teaser for the smurfs movie and their web site
• Toy Story 3 merchandise: “Barbie loves Woody – Beware of choking hazard”

  
  (image from cartoonbrew.com)

Top 5 list of the week:

Top 5 directors of animated featuresa of all time

Classic Movie Review:

This week we review “the Tune” (1992), directed by Bill Plympton
Next week we take a closer loo at “Grave of fireflies” by Isao Takahata

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Mortenl & Erlend
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Animation Conversation Weekly ep. no. 57

The weekly podcast is presented by: Morten Øverlie & Erlend Dal Sakshaug.

ACP News:

• New Tangled (previously known as Rapunzel) teaser
• First Rango teaser.
• First international The Illusionist trailer

+ We give you a last round up for the Annecy Animation Festival 2010,
including a short walk-through of the shorts and features that got awards this year.
SUPER BONUS: David Silverman playing the Alt-horn on the lawn at Annecy.

Top 5 list of the week:

This week, tying in with the festival and the movie-review, we give you our Top 5 animated war movies!

Classic Movie Review:

This week, we review When the wind blows (1986), directed by Jimmy T. Murakami.

Next weeks classic movie: Bill Plympton’s “The Tune” (1992)

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Will & Erlend
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Day 6.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010

This is our last day on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. Today, we brought together a small group of people to do a recap of the festival. We hope you had a great time following us this week, and hopefully you felt a little bit of the magic that is the Annecy festival.

Thanks to Martin Klint & Carl F. Corneil for helping me out today.

C U in a year-6 days!

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Show notes:

Short films in competition 5:
Roku-Jyo To Yo-Juo-Han/Two Rooms, Japan, 2010, 6m45s, Atsuko Nagashima
Monstre Sacré, France, 2009, 9m35s, Jean-Claude Rozec
Zhila-Bila Mukha/Once There Was A Fly, Russia, 2009, 13m, Alena Oyatyeva
Playground, Japan, 2010, 3m50s, Mirai Mizue
Vem Blöder?/Who’s Bleeding?, Sweden, 2010, 4m, Jessica Lauren, Film Tecknarna Animation-Fiction
Love Patate, France, 2010, 14m, Gilles Cuvelier
Teclópolis,  Argentina, 2009, 12m10s, Javier Mrad, Can Can Club
Le Silence Sous/The Silence Beneath The Bark, L’Écorce, France, 2009, 11m8s, Joanna, Lurie, Lardeux Films, Sens-Fiction Productions
Love & Theft, Germany, 2009,  6m49s, Andreas Hykade, Studio Bilder GMBH

Erlend

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Day 4+5.
Friday, June 11th, 2010

We are on location at the annual Annecy 2010 animation festival in France. We’ll keep you updated on everything that happens here, starting monday, so that you get to know what you’re missing out on.
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Show notes:

Between Frames:
Making of Simpsons Extravaganza 2 (Featuring Matt Groenig & David Silverman)
Making of Dragons and Princesses (Featuring Michel Ocelot)
Making of Disney: The art of traditional animation (Featuring Ron Clements & John Musker)
Making of Pixar: The Three dimensional Storytelling (Featuring Teddy Newton and the world premiere screening of Pixars Day & Night short)

That’s it for today. Now I’m off to see short program 5!

Erlend

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