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Stop Motion Toys in the Attic by “The European Tim Burton” Plays in New York Ahead of Fall Tour
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Column by Scott Green
This weekend, New York International Film Festival 2010 Grand Prize winner Toys in the Attic is back, in a brand new English language version!
Legendary Czech stop-motion animation master Jiri Barta's first feature in over 20 years is described as four parts Toy Story and one part David Lynch, as a group of abandoned toys stage an ambitious rescue of their kidnapped friend.
From NYAFF's description:
Set behind the doors of a dusty attic, the adorable doll Buttercup plays mom to a motley family of castaways: the station master Teddy Bear, clay-animated Schubert, and the Quixotic marionette knight Sir Handsome. In this enchanted world every day is a birthday, until a mysterious black cat kidnaps the beloved Buttercup and takes her to the Land of Evil ruled by the villainous Head of State, who commands an army of mechanical, mustachioed insects and an all seeing spying eye. Both a wonderfully spooky children's fairy tale and Soviet-era allegory, Toys in the Attic marks a career highpoint for Barta, who was among the first to raise stop-motion animation to an art form and paved the the way for modern hits like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
New English language dub features the voices of Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Cary Elwes.
The movie plays this weekend at this Saturday-Sunday, August 25-26, 11:00am at New York's IFC Center.
It's fall tour includes:
| STARTS: SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 | |
| New York City | Regal Union Square |
| Los Angeles Metro | Sundance Cinema |
| Los Angeles Metro | Laemmle's North Hollywood |
| Los Angeles Metro | Laemmle's Pasadena |
| Los Angeles Metro | Hollywood-Westside (pending) |
| Los Angeles Metro | Regal Alhambra Renaissance |
| Los Angeles Metro | Regal Long Beach 6 |
| Los Angeles Metro | Promenade Rolling Hills |
| Los Angeles Metro | Anaheim Hills 14 |
| Los Angeles Metro | Garden Grove Stadium 16 |
| Chicago | AMC South Barrington |
| Dallas-Ft. Worth | Regal Galaxy |
| Dallas-Ft. Worth | Regal Grand Prairie |
| Washington, D.C. | Regal Majestic Silver Spring |
| Washington, D.C. | Regal Kingstown Alexandria |
| Washington, D.C. | Regal Gallery Place |
| Memphis | Malco Wolfchase Cinema |
| N.W. Arkansas | Malco Razorback |
| N.W. Arkansas | Malco Towne Center |
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STARTS: SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 | |
| Atlanta Metro | Mall of Georgian (NE) |
| Atlanta Metro | Town Center Kennesaw (NW) |
| Atlanta Metro | Hollywood 24 (Central) |
| Atlanta Metro | Arbor Place (West) |
| Philadelphia Metro | Regal Riverview Plaza 17 |
| Philadelphia Metro | Regal Burlington Stadium |
| Philadelphia Metro | Regal King of Prussia |
| Philadelphia Metro | Regal Warrington Crossing |
| Little Rock, AR | McCain Mall |
| Thomaston, GA | Ritz Theatre |
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STARTS SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 | |
| Boston Metro | Locations not yet set |
| Seattle-Tacoma | Locations not yet set |
| San Francisco Area | Locations not yet set |
| Houston Metro | Locations not yet set |
| Portland | Locations not yet set |
| San Diego | Locations not yet set |
| San Antonio | Locations not yet set |
| Bismarck, ND | Grand Theatre |
| Jacksonville, IL | The Illinois |
| Shelbyville, IN | Studio 10 |
| Elizabethtown, KY | Movie Palace |
| Portsmouth, OH | The Portsmouth 8 |
| Niles, MI | Wonderland 6 |
| Ostego, MI | The M89 Theatre |
| Detroit, MI | Bel Air 10 |
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STARTS OCTOBER 5, 2012 | |
| Phoenix | Locations not yet set |
| Denver | Locations not yet set |
| Detroit | Locations not yet set |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul | Locations not yet set |
| Indianapolis | Locations not yet set |
| Cleveland | Locations not yet set |
| Cincinnatti | Locations not yet set |
| Pittsburgh | Locations not yet set |
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STARTS OCTOBER 12, 2012 | |
| Charlotte | Locations not yet set |
| Miami-Ft. Lauderdale | Locations not yet set |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg | Locations not yet set |
| Pensacola | Locations not yet set |
| Jacksonville | Locations not yet set |
| Mobile, AL | Locations not yet set |
| Birmingham, AL | Locations not yet set |
| Nashville, TN | Locations not yet set |
| Louisville | Locations not yet set |
| St. Louis | Locations not yet set |
| Kansas City | Locations not yet set |
| Wichita, KS | Locations not yet set |
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STARTS OCTOBER 19, 2012 | |
| Columbus, OH | Gateway Film Cente |
Readers Talkback
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Ahhh...eastern European animation. Da-da we laugh. Worker & Parasite! Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxYdj9dGcI
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Aug. 24, 2012, 10:05 p.m. CST
Banana dog patch being brought to the forefront of the African Carrot Top regarding said nonsense! !!
by Mr Soze
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Aug. 24, 2012, 10:07 p.m. CST
I'm glad these children were hear to listen to pure frontier gibberish.
by Mr Soze
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Aug. 24, 2012, 10:09 p.m. CST
Mr. Green were you huffing paint when you wrote this column???
by Mr Soze
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THAT's where they selected in the Chicago area?
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This article confuses me! Movie looks cool and weird.
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Aug. 25, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
You mean there's a european guy who thinks micheal Keaton would make a good batman and nick cage would make a good superman?
by UltraTron
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I bow to no one in my affection for stop motion. I have Ray Harryhausens autograph. But merely using stop motion does not make a movie good.
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looks like some forgotten 80s movie from one of those DTV studios like the one who made the Pupper Master movies. i thought the stop motion in Fantastic Mr. Fox was bad.....
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I got to say, since this morning when I saw this headline it has been bothering me. It's derogatory to the director of the movie to call him the "european Tim Burton." He has a name and besides, Tim Burton has never done anything like this anyway. He was only a producer for Nightmare Before Christmas--which is your basis for comparation-- but and Corpse Bride wasn't that good without Henry Selick. Next time you do a headline for anything please refer the director by their name, not by some American recognizable director, it's more professional.
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Aug. 25, 2012, 10:14 p.m. CST
watching a lot of Tim Burtons early shorts on youtube i was suprised not a lot of them were stop motion. Only really Vincent. Stalk of the Celery Monster suprisingly was not.
by DarthBlart
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Aug. 25, 2012, 10:16 p.m. CST
I 'd say he could be called a modern day Charles Bowers or the a European guy from the band Tool or most deffinately the European Jan Svankmajer.
by DarthBlart
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Aug. 26, 2012, 8:56 a.m. CST
Charlie Spradling was the original sexiest American tomboy beanpole in Pupper Master 2
by Domi'sInnerChild
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toys that were popular in the 30 -60's. stuff they havent made in decades or kids jus dont play with.
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Henry Selick is your man. Tim Burton is just a businessman. A pretty good one, too. But he hasn't directed a good film in decades. And he doesn't do any of his own stop-motion.
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