La Revanche du ciné-opérateur - Le Roman de Renard - Northwestern University, Chicago - 29 avril 2010
Le Roman de Renard
au
Block Cinema
Mary and
Northwestern University
The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Thursday, April 29, 7 pm
The Tale of the Fox (Le Roman de Renard)
(Wladislaw Starewicz, 1930, France, 35mm, 65 minutes)
Jeudi 29 avril 2010, 19 heures
In French with English subtitles
The Tale of the Fox was the first feature-length film by master animator, Wladislaw Starewicz. Adapted from northern European folklore, the film (animated with Starewicz's sister Irène) follows the comic adventures of the fox Renard, an anarchic trickster. Starewicz's iconic visual style, with its fluid stop motion puppetry and strikingly naturalistic menagerie of anthropomorphic misfits, was informed by a lifelong passion for zoology. Admirers of Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox will find a blueprint here for that film's distinctive look and tone (
Preceded by:
The Cameraman’s Revenge
(The Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman) (Wladislaw Starewicz, 1912, Russia, 16mm,
13 minutes)
With Russian and English intertitles
Starewicz, who studied entomology, used actual insect specimens to animate this story of a bourgeois beetle couple and their mutual infidelities.
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/block-cinema/tales.html#2
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