An image from director Michael Dudok de Wit's animated fable 'The Red Turtle,' one of five films nominated for the Oscar for best animated feature in 2017. (Sony Pictures Classics) Though it is among ...

You don’t need words to create poetry. Without spoken dialogue, the Oscar-nominated “The Red Turtle,” a richly imagined French-Belgian animated drama created with the skillful assistance of Japan’s ...

“The Red Turtle” is a visually stunning poetic fable, but there’s more on its mind than simply beauty. The first full-length work by Oscar-winning Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit and a ...

We’re born; life washes us up on various shores; we build our sand castles and navigate the years; we die. From this four-part miniseries we call human existence, the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de ...

One of the charms of “The Red Turtle” is a chance to savor the joys of clean and simple animation suggestive of the old hand-drawn school, which is part of what makes the film, a quiet, humanistic ...

The animated feature “The Red Turtle” is about as far as you can get from a typical cartoon movie musical. Except for a few tsunami crashes and howls, this lovely but tortoise-paced work from the ...

“The Red Turtle” is a visually stunning poetic fable, but there’s more on its mind than simply beauty. The first full-length work by Oscar-winning Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit and a ...

The film recently earned five Annie Award nominations including best animated indie feature and best direction. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The Red Turtle got a boost in the awards race on Monday ...

When was the last time an animated film actually lowered your pulse rate? In its typical Hollywood form, an animated feature is usually the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush: a frantic barrage of ...

The maxim that good scripts are essential to making good movies is especially true in animation. In this medium, scripts and storyboards provide blueprints for completely invented worlds, and dialogue ...

New %27Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles%27 cartoon is in its first season Mutagen Man will be making his debut soon Second season will feature a reunion of original ...