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
Hosts

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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Enjoy the show!
Will & Erlend
Hosts

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