Hey NYC! Get your Aardman Animaton Fix this weekend and Beyond!

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Hey NYC! Get your Aardman Animaton Fix this weekend and Beyond!
As if there isn't enough happening this weekend in the Big Apple what with NYAFF (will this guy ever shut up about that?) here is something else to add to the list.
 
If you don't care much for Asian cinema, and/or are a big animation aficionado (especially claymation) than here is a little treat the folks at the New York Int'l Children's Film Fest are presenting at IFC Center - a mini-retrospective of Aardman Animaton flicks!

You know, guys like Nick Park and Peter Lord who did such classic shorts as A GRAND DAY OUT and good-time features like CHICKEN RUN, which incidentally starts off the mini-retro this Saturday, the 26th. Look further below and you'll find a full press release and links for tix!


 
NEW YORK INT'L CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS
AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
JUNE 26 to JULY 18 at IFC Center

For tickets and info visit
www.gkids.com or call 212-349-0330.


June 18, 2010, New York - New York Int'l Children's Film Festival announced
a 25 year retrospective of films from the Academy Award winning stop-motion
animation studio, Aardman Animations.  The program will take place over four
weekends, June 26 to July 18 at New York's IFC Center.  NYICFF is now
presenting films every weekend of the year, at IFC Center.  For tickets and
information visit www.gkids.com or call 212-349-0330.

Bristol UK-based Aardman Animations is one of the most successful, creative,
and highly original animation studios of all times, winners of four Academy
AwardsR (and eight nominations) and rivaled only by Disney and Pixar in
terms of creative output. While many animation studios have turned to
computers, the artists at Aardman prefer to work with their hands, molding
characters from plasticine and placing them in miniaturized sets, then
adjusting, repositioning and manipulating the limbs, the eyes, and the
mouths, frame by painstaking frame to bring them to life. The resulting
characters are phenomenally expressive and the films are infused with a
humanity and a level of artistry unachievable by any other method.


PROGRAM INCLUDES:

AARDMAN ANIMATIONS - AWARD-WINNING SHORTS
Animation, UK, Various, 1987-2010, 70 minutes, Unrated, Recommended for ages
6 to adult
July 3, 4, 5, 17, 18 - 11:00am - IFC Center (323 West Sixth Ave)
This brilliant collection includes the Academy Award winning Creature
Comforts, the NYICFF Grand Prize winning Humdrum and A Matter of Loaf and
Death, plus Rex the Runt, Shaun the Sheep, and other mini masterpieces
encompassing 25 years of creative output from Nick Park, Peter Lord, Richard
Goleszowski, Peter Peake, Chris Sadler and the other claymation geniuses at
Aardman Animations. These inspired plasticine creations embody the best of
Aardman's slyly subversive wit and expressive style, and bubble over with a
warmth and humanity that only such lovingly handmade films can convey.


CHICKEN RUN
Animation, UK, Nick Park/Steve Box, 2000, 85 minutes, Rated G
In English, Recommended All Ages
June 26 & 27 - 11:00am - IFC Center (323 West Sixth Ave)
"The Great Escape but with chickens."  Plucky hen Ginger works at Tweedy's
Chicken Farm laying eggs for the vicious Mrs. Tweedy. When egg production
begins to dwindle, Mrs. Tweedy decides to turn the farm into a chicken
pot-pie factory. Trapped behind barbed wire and fearing for their lives, the
determined Ginger and her fellow pen-mates try tunnels, catapults,
disguises, and all manner of deception to escape their prison camp coop and
evade destruction by the monstrous pie-making machine. All appears hopeless
when out of the blue a dashing rooster named Rocky lands in the farm-an
aerialist fresh off of the circus circuit-and promises to teach the fawning,
lovestruck hens how to fly.


WALLACE & GROMIT, THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Animation, UK, Peter Lord/Nick Park, 2005, 84 minutes, Rated G
July 10 & 11 - 11:00am - IFC Center (323 West Sixth Ave)
Oscar Winner - Best Animated Feature!  Claymation's most beloved duo,
Wallace and Gromit, bring all the fun and ingenuity of their Oscar-winning
shorts to their first full-length feature film-a send-up of the Victorian
Gothic horror genre, in which the absent-minded inventor Wallace accidently
swaps brains with a rabbit and wreaks havoc on local vegetable gardens.
While the rabbit discovers a newfound fondness for cheese, Wallace's
attempts to keep his bunny instincts hidden from romantic interest Lady
Tottingham become increasingly and hilariously strained. Of course, the
loyal and longsuffering Gromit never utters a word as he rescues his master
from one mishap after another-but the minute changes in his facial
expressions speak volumes.


ABOUT NYICFF:
Founded in 1997, NYICFF is the country's largest festival of film for
children and stands at the forefront of a movement to define a new, more
compelling and provocative "film for kids."  The NYICFF jury includes
Frances McDormand, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Modine, Uma Thurman, and John
Turturro. In addition to the annual March film festival, NYICFF produces
year round programming, film production workshops for children, an online
festival with over 200 short films available commercial free, and
distributes a "Best of NYICFF" tour in theaters nationwide. In recognition
of its efforts, NYICFF has been twice honored by the Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences, while NY State Council for the Arts named NYICFF
"a model for youth programming in New York State."
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