From the organizer: DeN Double Feature kicks off its second season with stop-motion animated films from two of the most original American filmmakers working today.
ISLE OF DOGS is the latest creation constructed in the sandbox of manufactured melancholy that director Wes Anderson clearly enjoys spending so much time in. Anderson’s ninth feature film (and his second in stop-motion animation following FANTASTIC MR. FOX) is his wildest and waggiest yet, expanding his wondrous, inventive vision while retaining his meticulous compositions. ISLE OF DOGS - which, if spoken aloud, sounds like "I love dogs" - is probably Anderson's first movie to deal with the downtrodden and rejected, as well as politics and conspiracies, yet all of these things feel at home in his universe. While FANTASTIC MR. FOX was a bit more kid-friendly and straightforward, ISLE OF DOGS has a bigger vision, with edgy humor and unique rhythms.
Charlie Kaufman, celebrated screenwriter (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) and director (SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK), fashions the existential crisis that is ANOMALISA as a dark, bizarre stop-motion animated movie that is extraordinary in many ways. ANOMALISA began life as a kind of radio play; then Kaufman enlisted animator Duke Johnson as co-director and together they came up with an amazingly detailed, mundane, grimly comic world in which special attention is paid to the imperfections of the human body and our sometimes-clumsy relationships with food, drink, and sex, not to mention longing for love and sense of purpose. The first R-rated film ever nominated for the Best Animated Film Academy Award, ANOMALISA also has the distinction of being the first animated film to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
The two films will be presented by UNIS Hanoi film teachers Colin Campbell and Jackson Garland, who will provide some historical context for the films and lead us in an open roundtable/Q&A discussion after each screening.
Come on down, grab some popcorn and let's do film!
For more details, head to the event's Facebook page here.
Sunday, October 7
6:30pm - 11:30pm
DeN | 49 Làng Yên Phụ, Hanoi