Maria Pia Timo as a snail, Federico Ielapi as Pinocchio, and Alida Baldari Calabria as the young fairy, in "Pinocchio." (Greta De Lazzaris / Roadside Attractions) Prosthetic makeup designer Mark ...
This quirky classic has been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into an ill-conceived metaphor about fascism. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...
Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...
The studio behind stop-motion hits like ‘Corpse Bride’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ started work on the new film in 2008 but had to wait for the technology to catch up. By Charles Solomon From its earliest ...
Even taking it as a given that Disney's animated classics will all receive live-action makeovers eventually, "Pinocchio" feels like an unnecessary exercise -- a movie so flat that it never sparks to ...
Last year, horror fans met the evil version of Pooh Bear in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Then, another beloved icon of childhood, Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. Which meant we got a ...
It is “truly enchanting” to watch traditional puppetry at a time when we’re “bombarded by artificially created images”. Interacting seamlessly with the human characters, Pinocchio is “masterfully” ...
Prosthetic makeup designer Mark Coulier has been responsible for some of film’s most transformative looks, from “Harry Potter’s” Voldemort to Meryl Streep’s Margaret Thatcher. But working on Italian ...