When you love a filmmaker, it’s always exciting to see them stretch outside of their comfort zone. In the case of Sylvain Chomet, there was something undeniably fascinating about the idea of the man who made Triplets Of Bellville and …

First of all, I must state that this is not The Illusionist, the brilliant film from 2006 with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, but the French animated film The Illusionist from 2010, that also happens to be rather brilliant in …

In what seems like a match made in heaven, Sylvain Chomet–the writer/director of the whimsically Oscar-nominated The Triplets of Belleville–teamed up with the timeless French funnyman and filmmaker Jacques Tati for the new animated feature The Illusionist.  (Given that Tati …

A sweet little trailer for Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist has come online.  The trailer is originally from afisha.ru and comes to us via Catsuka via Twitch.  Even though I cannot read the Russian title cards, I can see that the …

I absolutely love Jacques Tati. In my opinion, Tati is one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever lived.  I rank his film, “Playtime”, as one of the greatest films that I have ever seen so far and it bums …