Tag: Anomalisa
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Best Charlie Kaufman Films to Stream and Buy on Blu-Ray
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Charlie Kaufman Approached His Netflix Film ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ As His Last Directing Job
Charlie Kaufman remains one of the most self-referential and surreal filmmakers working today, but when it comes to his directorial efforts, they’ve been few and far between. Five years after his Oscar-nominated stop-motion film “Anomalisa,” Kaufman returns this year with “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” which Netflix will release later this year, and Kaufman says…
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‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’: How the ‘Anomalisa’ Team Advanced Stop-Motion for Humanizing ‘Vavilov’
One of the highlights of Nat Geo’s “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” was how stop-motion animation helped humanize the tragic career of pioneering Russian botanist/geneticist Nikolai Vavilov in Episode 4: “Vavilov.” Indeed, the way in which Josef Stalin politicized pseudo-science to debunk Vavilov’s revolutionary discoveries to end hunger (he starved to death in prison), serves as a…