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6 months

So delighted to share this piece! For the New York Times I talked to Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki and legendary composer Joe Hisaishi about their respective relationships with animation master Hayao Miyazaki and THE BOY AND THE HERON:

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3 years

My fall plans The Delta variant

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2 years

One of my favorite genres of press photos are those of directors of stop-motion animation films posing with their puppets or sets. A thread: Wes Anderson with FANTASTIC MR. FOX puppets

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The sci-fi/adventure 2D animated films of the last 90s and early 2000s were mostly box-office disappointments but they are some of the most beautiful and thematically complex movies the studios made right before 3DCG took over.

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1 year

From the PINOCCHIO exhibit at MoMA

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2 years

Animation can be transcendental, lyrical, and even much more profound about the human experience than many live action film. Shame that people out there continue to belittle this incredibly medium. Animation artists deserve respect.

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2 years

my jaw dropped looking at these images from the SPIRITED AWAY stage play. my god, this looks incredible.

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11 months

OPPENHEIMER and BARBIE

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4 years

Latinos Latinos for Tr*mp

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2 months

THE BOY AND THE HERON team are on the #Oscars red carpet holding wara wara plushies 🥹

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4 years

People are saying that Latinos who are not on Twitter won’t care about Goya supporting Trump. You best believe I’m texting everyone I know. I’ll put the memo in a religious Facebook chain post if need be so my tias can see it.

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5 months

I just love it when they take photos of stop-motion figures in real-world locations. so cool.

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4 months

I don’t know, but if I’d delivered a brilliant performance in A STAR IS BORN (and directed that movie) and then lost the Oscar to a laughable impersonation of Freddie Mercury, maybe I’d also go in a six year journey to learn how to conduct for a role in a biopic I’m directing.

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1 year

The Academy should award voice performances, especially in a year with so many memorable characters who came to live thanks to the work of both animators and voice actors.

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2 years

Henry Selick with Coraline

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2 months

Hayo Miyazaki directed the only two only hand-drawn animated features to have won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: SPIRITED AWAY and THE BOY AND THE HERON. Animation’s greatest alchemist.

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2 years

Nick Park with the awesome Wallace and Gromit

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10 months

Wild that in 2018 the five nominees for the Best Director Oscar were: Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, and Paul Thomas Anderson. They’re among the very few who can still make original studio films that get people excited to go out to the cinema.

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3 years

The amazing Yalitza Aparicio on the set of her new film PRESENCIAS 🇲🇽

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2 months

One of the biggest Oscar misses this year was the fact that neither Joe Hisaishi’s score for THE BOY AND THE HERON nor Daniel Pemberton’s one for SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE got nominated. Animated films should be considered in categories outside Best Animated Feature.

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2 years

Peter Lord with a puppet from CHICKEN RUN

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1 year

Mexico is cheap to the American gentrifiers because they earn money in dollars and pay in pesos, but the cost of living is becoming unmanageable for locals because of these digital nomads. The stories I hear about how gringos are essentially colonizing Mexico City are outrageous.

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2 years

Never forget that the Academy didn’t let Uruguayan musician Jorge Drexler perform his own Oscar-nominated song “Al otro lado del río” during the telecast. So when he won, instead of a speech, he sang a verse. It was the first Spanish-language song to ever win the award.

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2 months

It’s awesome that the Oscars are bringing back past acting winners to present, but how about bringing back the interviews with characters from the Best Animated Feature nominees? They did this in 2010. So wonderful that one of the best groups of nominees ever got this treatment.

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2 years

Tim Burton with a puppet from FRANKENWEENIE

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Carlos Aguilar

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6 months

Watching WISH really reminded me of how audacious in form and theme some of the Disney Renaissance films were. The stakes were more powerful, the music more emotionally resonant. Think Esmeralda singing “God Help the Outcasts,” or Mulan picking up the doll in a ravaged town.

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2 years

Claude Barras with the protagonist of MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI

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3 years

We don’t talk enough about how beautiful the animated film ANASTASIA is.

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2 months

American gentrifiers moving to Mexico and then complaining about the ways in which Mexico is not like the U.S. is the most American thing possible. They want Mexicans in Mexico to learn English. Here and in Mexico they only see us as labor for their benefit.

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2 years

THE POWER OF THE DOG

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2 years

honestly, Juan Gabriel would have rocked the #MetGala at any age.

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4 years

Latin American animation alert! Chilean feature NAHUEL AND THE MAGIC BOOK feels like a Studio Ghibli film based on Mapuche mythology. I spoke to director Germán Acuña about bringing multiple indigenous legends from the Chiloé Archipelago to the screen🇨🇱:

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2 years

bonus: Kodi Smit-McPhee with Norman from PARANORMAN

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2 years

Guillermo del Toro and a puppet from his upcoming PINOCCHIO

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4 years

Sharon, Bong Joon Ho’s interpreter, gets her moment in the spotlight. She is a filmmaker. She wants to direct!!!!! #Parasite #GoldenGlobes

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2 years

Richard Starzak and Mark Burton with the gang from SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE

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Carlos Aguilar

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2 months

This is the moment in PAST LIVES that breaks me every time. Nora crying after Hae Sung leaves. She isn’t crying because she was hoping for romance, but because he takes with him their shared past, a part of herself she had for long been out of touch with.

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5 years

Guillermo del Toro kissing the Mexican flag as he steps on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the first time. A beautiful moment that hit me right in the heart ❤️🇲🇽🎬

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5 years

Spike Lee in the interview room is fucking amazing. “Every time somebody is driving somebody I lose. They changed the seating arrangement.” #Oscars #BlacKkKlansman

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3 years

"Stop crying it's just a movie" The movie:

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"Stop crying it's just a movie" The movie:

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2 years

Indigenous Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy, who you might know from her great performances in LA LLORONA and IXCANUL, is also part of the cast of WAKANDA FOREVER playing Namor’s young mother 🇬🇹

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2 years

Thread: All 10 Best Picture #Oscars nominees as scenes with muppets: BELFAST Dir. Kenneth Branagh

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5 months

THE BOY AND THE HERON being #1 at the box office in the U.S. this weekend means the Academy has to nominate it for a Best Picture Oscar. That’s how it works. Please voters, act accordingly.

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5 years

Watching Plaza Sésamo in Mexico we knew Abelardo, the colorful version of Big Bird. This is the first time I see that he is acknowledged as Big Bird’s Mexican cousin (maybe it had happened before). So adorable to see them together!

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2 years

Niki Lindroth von Bahr with puppets from THE BURDEN

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Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman with a set from ANOMALISA

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Chris Butler with a puppet from MISSING LINK

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Steven Spielberg with one of the puppets from the Chilean stop-motion short film BESTIA at the Oscars nominee luncheon 🇨🇱 Photo by @Acfu

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1 year

Thread: All 10 Best Picture #Oscars nominees for 2023 as scenes with @TheMuppets ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Dir. Edward Berger

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3 years

being vaccinated does NOT mean you can go on a road trip across Mexico with your best friend and a Spanish woman you met at a wedding, then betray each other along the way, think about mortality by the beach, and eventually end up in a steamy threesome that tests your friendship.

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2 years

If THE POWER OF THE DOG, an English-language drama starring Hollywood A-listers is seen as unapproachable and difficult to understand (which is not), what hope is there that people will watch anything remotely more narratively complex, or in another language, or “artsy”?

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2 years

Andrew Garfield looking at Tom Holland opening his mouth about Scorsese.

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3 years

Their racist neighbor was angry because they were listening to Mexican music, so they put up a border wall over him 🇲🇽 👍 😂

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3 years

This photo of @BarryJenkins holding a bootleg copy of MOONLIGHT (Luz de Luna) in Mexico is EVERYTHING!!! 😊

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4 months

THE BOY AND THE HERON is the first non-English film to win the Golden Globe for best animated film. It’s also the first win for Miyazaki who was previously nominated for best foreign language film for THE WIND RISES in 2013. This is also the first win ever for distributor GKIDS.

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2 years

If you are enjoying Guillermo del Toro’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES and are eagerly waiting for his stop-motion PINOCCHIO, you should check out THE HOUSE, an eerie and darkly funny stop-motion anthology featuring work from three teams of incredible animators. It’s also on Netflix.

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1 year

Not a single film from Latin America on the Sight & Sound list. Disheartening how little interest there is in general in cinema from the region. Folks will watch every European title on the Criterion Collection but can’t name a single film from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

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2 years

Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels with a puppet from THIS MAGNIFICENT CAKE

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1 year

AVATÁRRR 🟦 🎵 🔥

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2 years

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

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What's a movie that received ZERO Oscar nominations you think should have WON Best Picture?

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5 months

Hear me out, LA LA LAND but starring Ken and Bella Baxter.

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8 months

The fact that Scorsese saying anything even remotely against superhero films fills some of the directors behind them with rage makes me feel they are probably not so proud of the work they have made.

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2 years

Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter with a puppet from NEGATIVE SPACE

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2 months

what an incredible year for animation 2023 was, from studio stunners to unexpected small gems. may this year be just as packed with wondrous new films.

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2 years

Hugo Covarrubias with a puppet from his Oscar-nominated short BESTIA

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the warawaras accepting the Golden Globe for Best Animated film for THE BOY AND THE HERON.

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Paloma Baeza with the ser of POLES APART

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3 months

The moment near the end of THE ZONE OF INTEREST when Jonathan Glazer opens a cinematic vortex for the fictionalized past and the real present to stare at each other, almost like a visceral premonition for the protagonist, is an absolutely brilliant formal detour.

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3 years

Daniel Kaluuya has truly had an extraordinary last few years with GET OUT, BLACK PANTHER, WIDOWS, and JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH. This won’t be his only Oscar.

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10 months

The headline shouldn’t be “How Hollywood Strikes Will Disrupt Festivals.” They should be, “How Billionaires Are Disrupting Festivals By Refusing to Negotiate a Fair Deal With Creators.” Put the blame where it belongs.

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3 years

May we all enter 2021 with the same love Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal have for each other ❤️

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1 year

Pedro Pascal has fully entered his Almodóvar era.

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5 months

The funniest thing Gael García Bernal said during our Q&A is that he has a cousin in Guadalajara who is a cinephile and who sincerely points out things that are obvious while watching movies. If he sees the Eiffel Tower on screen, he’ll point at it and whisper, “Look, Paris.”

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2 years

Animation is NOT a genre, Animation is NOT only for children, Animation is NOT a genre, Animation is NOT only for children, Animation is NOT a genre, Animation is NOT only for children, Animation is NOT a genre, Animation is NOT only for children, Animation is NOT a genre.

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2 years

Guillermo del Toro doing stop motion animation is truly a dream come true. Cannot wait for this one. Wow.

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2 years

thinking about how bewilderingly eclectic Ang Lee’s career is.

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3 years

Chloé Zhao: “People at birth are inherently good” ❤️❤️❤️ #Oscars

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2 months

Chris Sanders’ THE WILD ROBOT joins the lineage of robot protagonists in animated films.

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2 years

This is what a friendship between destiny and free will looks like

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3 years

Friends!! For the New York Times I had the immense joy of writing this feature on the history of Cartoon Saloon, the Irish animation studio behind 2020’s best film WOLFWALKERS, and the lovely artists, like Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, who are its heart:

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4 months

So great that Justine Triet thanked Milo Machado Graner, who is outstanding in ANATOMY OF A FALL

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1 year

All of the main figures of Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO, including this stunner, are on display at The Grove. For those shopping there and braving the crowds.

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3 years

How migrant children are treated vs. How white terrorists are treated

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2 years

Agathe Rousselle (TITANE) and Renate Reinsve (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) at the César Awards 💙

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2 years

THREE COLORS TRILOGY Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

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2 years

the fact that a lot of you still think animated films are only made for kids saddens me. especially when it comes from film critics I otherwise respect.

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2 years

The best thing the Oscars can do is nominate “Naatu Naatu” from #RRR and have these legends perform

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4 months

Actors on Actors: Messi, the dog from ANATOMY OF A FALL, and Chaplin, the dog from FALLEN LEAVES. Two Oscar Caninetenders.

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2 years

A reminder that THE VOICES by Marjane Satrapi is a great, tonally peculiar movie that features Ryan Reynolds’ best performance to date. It’s a perfect choice for Halloween viewing if you like very dark horror comedies with talking animals.

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4 years

As a DACA recipient, the last four years have been a waking nightmare of uncertainty & fear. Today, in tears, I’m thinking about all my immigrant sisters and brothers , about our dreams, & the happiness & prosperity we deserve. Today, I can see the light of hope in the horizon❤️

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3 years

It’s ridiculous how mad people are at “smaller” movies being nominated for Bes Picture at the #Oscars . If these titles are too “indie” or “artsy” for them, I feel bad for their incredibly narrow view of cinema. Ecstatic these 4 are nominated.

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1 year

And let me preemptively stop you if you are gonna come and say something stupid about how many Mexicans live in the U.S. The dynamics of power between Mexicans forced to migrate and Americans “becoming expats” are so different that it’s dumb to try to compare them.

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CHALLENGERS (Guadagnino, 2024)

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2 years

we are like one press release away from the Oscars producers announcing winners are getting slimed during the telecast.

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3 years

PSA: Since most reviews of IN THE HEIGHTS at major sites will inevitably be written by non-Latinos, can we at least ask that you refrain from calling it “caliente,” “fiery,” “spicy” or a “fiesta”? These words are not necessary when talking about Latino film/TV.

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2 years

only one actor who played Spider-Man has also worked with Martin Scorsese. spoiler, it wasn’t T*m H*lland.

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3 years

Yes! Youn Yuh-jung is nominated for Best Supporting Actress! Her performance in MINARI is so moving and unforgettable. I’m so glad she is being recognized #Oscars

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3 years

U.S Film Festivals

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2 years

It doesn’t really matter if a Latino show does well or not, the studios will cancel it. It doesn’t matter if Latinos are cast as the leads in big budget films, they are still going to scratch it like it’s nothing. But you best believe they’ll tweet about Latino Heritage Month.

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1 year

Four best dancing scenes of the year are in: AFTERSUN, AFTER YANG, BARDO, RRR

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