Sundance film festival trailer for "Mary and Max"

This delightful little trailer gives us a glimpse into some of the interesting movies showcased at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

"Mary and Max" is a stop-animation (Claymation) film. There may be some inappropriate language in the trailer (which is not MPAA rated). The film has not been picked up for distribution, but maybe people will create a buzz for it.



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Sundance Film Festival 2009 includes SciFi "Moon"

Two citations. First:

Director Duncan Jones admits the term "indie special effects" seems like a contradiction in terms in today's bang-for-buck movie market saturated with pricy special effects.
How can an independently made movie compete?

going retro. Jones' film, "Moon," uses miniature models and old-school techniques from the 1980s and '90s to tell the story of a man named Sam, played by Eric McCormack of "Will and Grace," who lives on a lunar mining base. The man, days away from returning to Earth, begins to unravel after he suffers from a hallucination and crashes his lunar rover.

Read the full article here.

Second,

Take 2001, mix in a little Cast Away, and you have Moon the latest attempt by the brilliantly talented Sam Rockwell to make something really good. Rockwell deserves to land in an Oscar caliber film some day but he’s yet again just missed the mark here as an astronaut living out a lonely existence on an isolated lunar mining colony.

Sam has been serving out his contract in space for nearly three years now. In two weeks his tour of duty is up and he’ll go home to civilization, humanity, and family. His only companion for the past three years has been the station’s automated helper, a friendly automaton named Gerty who is absolutely nothing like Hal. No really, Moon goes out of its way to beat you over the head with that. It’s painfully obvious that Gertie was written with Hal in mind and a grim determination to be so little like him that, ironically it’s impossible to avoid the comparison.

Read the full article here.

Both sites include at least one picture from the movie.

Sounds interesting. A retro science fiction movie that resurrects 1980s' style special effects. What's next? Hand puppets in space with Kookla, Fran, and Ollie?

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