Exhibit 303, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street In Long and White, ‘The road twists like a snake toward the far-off blue places’, artist Sarah Burwash’s animation takes us down a strange and looping path, causing us to wonder, “Have I been here before?” Burwash borrows the title from the autobiographical writings […]
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Animate for life
Animation with Love Festival December 2-4, 7pm Carbon Arc Cinema 1747 Summer Street The Animation with Love Festival is expanding this year, showcasing three times as many animated films as previous years. Now in its sixth year, the weekend-long event brings together animators, artists and film-lovers at Carbon Arc Cinema, located inside the Museum of Natural […]
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Review: The Little Prince
This terrific adaptation of the beloved children’s book for adults features a passel of Hollywood voices, but they’re beside the point. When a little girl (Mackenzie Foy), overworked by her uptight single mother (Rachel McAdams), meets a kooky neighbour (Jeff Bridges) who tells her of his adventures with the Little Prince—a boy born on an asteroid searching the universe for […]
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Al Tuck goes Pop!
Some artists make their entire careers out of some combination of talents and opportunities, but Al Tuck spent more than a decade in Halifax’s music scene before adding another skill to his resume. “Well, I have a daughter now, so I’ve read a lot of stories with dialogue to her,” Tuck says of his prior […]
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Cordell Barker’s perfect timing
Cordell Barker created a monster called The Cat Came Back. His 1988 animated short, which he made at the National Film Board, haunted him. “Oh yeah, I just lived under the shadow of that thing forever,” Barker admits on the phone from San Francisco, where later that day, he will present to Pixar. “In a […]
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Up all about the journey
The old axiom of “best-laid plans” infuses the story of crusty, elderly widower Carl Fredicksen (Ed Asner), in Pixar’s Up. From the wrenching montage of Carl’s life with his beloved wife Ellie—where they missed out on becoming dashing explorers like their hero Carl Muntz (Christopher Plummer)—to Carl’s escape from his old neighbourhood with zealous Wilderness […]
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Special Forces drawing lessons
The heads of disembodied stick figures float from one end of the screen to the next. Childlike drawings of planes and explosions ricochet across a swirling dark sky of scribbles and ghosts. The looped sounds of robotic screaming and rapid-machine-gun firing set the mood. Quebecois filmmaker Pierre Hébert and electronic composer Bob Ostertag sit in […]