#Tim McCanlies

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The Iron Giant - Kilian Eng

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[nerds-yearbook]

In October, 1957, an alien robot crash landed in Rockwell, Maine. Due to damage received in the impact, the robot forgot he was designed as a weapon. He was taken in by child Hogarth Hughes and junk yard artist Dean McCoppin. Complications arose when government official Kent Mansley arrived ordering a military strike, which activated the robot's defense weapons. When traditional weapons failed, Manning called in a nuclear strike. ("The Iron Giant", flm)

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[elijones94]

🐾 Jasmine the Lion from “Secondhand Lions” 🌽🦁

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[adamwatchesmovies]

The Iron Giant (1999)

A box-office disappointment when released in 1999, The Iron Giant is proof that box office results shouldn’t matter to you unless you're seeing a share of the profits. This is a wonderful film, ripe to be discovered (or re-discovered if it’s been a while) at home. Filled with heartfelt emotion and rich characters, I can’t imagine anyone not enjoying it.

It’s 1957, the middle of the space race. A strange object falls from the sky near the small town of Rockwell, Maine. The strange visitor is a 50-foot-tall metal-eating robot (voiced by Vin Diesel) who befriends a lonely young boy named Hogarth (Eli Marienthal). With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean (Harry Connick, Jr.), Hogarth tries to keep his new friend a secret. That becomes increasingly difficult as a suspicious government spook named Kent Mansley (voiced by Christopher McDonald) investigates.

So loosely based on the novel by Ted Hughes it might as well be an original creation, this tale is rich with detail and care. You can watch it over and over and always pick up something new - even if you've seen the new Signature Collection enough times to memorize the added scenes. Director Brad Bird, who helped shape the story along with screenwriter Tim McCanlies must’ve scrutinized every line in the script, every single storyboard with a fine-toothed comb to ensure the results would be everything they could be. In Hogarth the viewers find a curious, lonely boy who shows maturity beyond his age (perhaps due to the death of his father) but also gets excited – as any of us would – at the prospect of befriending a giant metal man. The titular giant alternately takes on the role of child and parent to Hogarth and as they explore their corner of the world together, their adventures make for many great comedic moments. Then, Mansley will get a bit too close. The film becomes a nail-biter. To complete the gamut of emotions, there's the conclusion. I dare you not to tear up but all the way through, you’ll laugh. Big, varied laughs come from all sorts of directions except for below the belt.

This is a movie for everyone. It’s so clever, so funny and so… real. Even the film’s villain and side characters receive that extra bit of attention to make them feel like they exist beyond the confines of the screen. Mansley isn’t so much evil as he is a product of his time. He’s a jerk at points and takes things too far, but the film uses its setting to make you understand exactly what goes through his mind. You almost feel bad for him when he's made to look a fool. If you’re seeing the film with small children, be prepared to have long, animated discussions about all of the characters’ choices.

All that, and it’s a great-looking movie. You may be able to strain your eyes and pick out which scenes use computer imagery to create the perfectly crisp outline of the giant, but the effort will feel like a waste. It’s basically seamless. I’ve seen this film so many times I know nearly every line and gag by heart but it still enchants me.

Sometimes, I award 5-star ratings to movies but I secretly want to add an asterisk. I might be lenient because the politics of social norms of the time were different than now, the picture was the first of its kind and there’s no way anyone would’ve thought of doing X rather than Y or the flaws I see are so minuscule you’re just forced to ignore them. The Iron Giant doesn't need an asterisk. It's a perfect film; the kind I'd like everyone to see. (Signature Edition on Blu-ray, August 17, 2018)

#The Iron Giant #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Brad Bird #Tim McCanlies #Jennifer Aniston #Harry Connick Jr. #Vin Diesel #James Gammon #Cloris Leachman #John Mahoney #Eli Marienthal #Christopher McDonald #M. Emmet Walsh #1999 movies #1999 films

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant) and was written by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird. The film stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.

 Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated haunted house film directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The film features the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner, as well as human characters being animated using live action motion capture animation, which was previously used in The Polar Express (2004). It was Sony's first computer animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (1.23); Background History (28.13); The Iron Giant (1999) Trailer (30.06); Our Thoughts (32.33); Let's Rate (49.09); Introducing Our Second Feature (53.21); Monster House (2006) Film Trailer (55.09); Lights, Camera, Action (57.33); How Many Stars (1:15.07); End Credits (1:17.50); Closing Credits (1:18.22)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – Copyright . All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Halloween by Siouxsie and the Banshees.  Taken from the album Juju. Copyright 1981 Polydor Records.

 Incidental Music:  Music from The Iron Giant by Michael Kamen. Taken from the album:  The Iron Giant – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Copyright 1999 Rhino Records.

 Music from Monster House by Douglas Pipes.  Taken from the album:  Monster House – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Copyright 2006 Varese Sarabande

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used by Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

#SoundCloud #music #Literary License Podcast #Animation #Family Films #The Iron Giant #Monster House #Gil Kenan

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[90smovies]

#The Iron Giant #Brad Bird #Tim McCanlies #Ted Hughes #Brent Forrester #90s

[jerichopalms]

#181: Secondhand Lions (2003, dir. by Tim McCanlies)

#secondhand lions #movies of 2021 #movie poster #tim mccanlies

[streamondemand]

Last chance: 'The Iron Giant' – A boy and his robot buddy on Hulu

Last chance: ‘The Iron Giant’ – A boy and his robot buddy on Hulu

“I’m the luckiest kid in the world,” cheers adolescent Hogarth, halfway to sci-fi heaven in the hand of a friendly ten story robot— a clanking metal man who acts like a combination little brother, big brother, and playful puppy dog all rolled into one magnificent structure who looks like he stepped off a vintage cover of “Amazing Stories”—as they march through the forest of his rural coastal…

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#1999 #Blu-ray #Brad Bird #Christopher McDonald #Cloris Leachman #DVD #Eli Marienthal #Harry Connick Jr. #Hulu #James Gammon #Jennifer Aniston #John Mahoney #M. Emmet Walsh #Ted Hughes #The Iron Giant #Tim McCanlies #Vin Diesel #VOD #Warner Bros.

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Live your best life Marathon

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[confessionsofabingefreak]

Angels Sing (2013)

Lionsgate Films

Impression: it is a good story that falls flat. Just never grabs you. Great music though.

Collection: no

Overall: ⭐️⭐️

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Storytelling: ⭐️1/2

Characters: ⭐️⭐️

Casting: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Visually: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Score/Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Entertainment: ⭐️⭐️

Best: music

Worst: a good story that feels flat and boring

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[thedestinysunknown]

The Iron Giant (1999):

“ This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It’s up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin’s place in the junkyard. “

*Reblog from my Movie Blog*

I’m still in the mood to talk about animated movies, so why not talk about one of my favorites? There’s a bunch of animated movies that I absolutely love, and the reason why I wanted to review this movie now, was because of my previous movie review. For some reason, Big Hero 6 reminds me a bit of this movie. Maybe the whole concept of a young boy be friends with a giant robot, who knows. The fact is: I absolutely love this movie, to the point I nearly cried. I don’t tend to cry over movies, but this one was very close to that. It’s such a sweet little movie, that will warm up your hearts. A perfect movie for christmas, to be honest. The voice acting is good, the story is beautiful, and it’s a gorgeous looking movie. I will gladly give it a 10 out of 10.

#the iron giant #iron giant #animation #gifs #movie #movie reviews #brad bird #Tim McCanlies #Jennifer Aniston #Harry Connick Jr. #Vin Diesel #James Gammon #Cloris Leachman #Christopher McDonald

[vidioten]

Secondhand Lions (2003), Tim McCanlies.

#Tim McCanlies #Secondhand Lions

[filmstruck]

Two Texas Movies That’ll Talk the Ears Off a Mule by Nathaniel Thompson

One thing you get attuned to growing up in the South is an ear for accents, which also means that when you hear a bad Southern accent in a film, it’s like hearing someone raking their nails on a chalkboard. That also makes you even more grateful when movies manage to get it right, and one state that’s had much better luck over the years than usual in Texas. While actors almost always struggle and usually fail trying to capture the twang of someone from Georgia, Alabama or the Carolinas, characters from Texas tend to be more convincing thanks to the combination of traditional Southern drawl and cowboy swagger that can switch from arrogance to vulnerability in the blink of an eye. It’s an actor’s dream, and you can find some fine examples in the current “Deep in the Heart of Texas” spotlight on FilmStruck featuring a wide array of cinematic snapshots of the Lone Star state.

Hollywood has had a long-running love affair with Texas stories for decades, but the first really modern look at what it’s like growing up in a small town there arrived with Peter Bogdanovich’s THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (’71), arguably the definitive Texas film for reasons numerous enough to fill books (which they have) and a great American coming-of-age story to boot. The film’s influence has extended through many subsequent films about the twilight period of adolescence, with its candid sexuality and sad-eyed outlook often emphasized by critics over its welcome adherence to that prime Texas quality, the gift of gab. The way characters talk in this film is just as important and naturalistic as what Robert Altman was doing around the same time, and though this one doesn’t get the same amount of credit in that regard, it’s a clear influence on two ‘90s films you’ll find pair up with that classic quite nicely if you’re up for some FilmStruck binging.

No single director has made the most of Texas locations as spectacularly and consistently as Richard Linklater, who’s turned out a string of modern classics set all over the state including DAZED AND CONFUSED (’93), BOYHOOD (’14), EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (’16), and my personal pick as his most underrated masterpiece, BERNIE (’11), which opens with a quick primer for the ages covering the major territories of Texas. You can find the basis for all of those films with Linklater’s very first legitimately released feature film, SLACKER (’91), which is available for streaming right now and should be part of anyone’s basic ‘90s cinema education. It’s the ultimate Texas yakking film as it tosses any kind of traditional storyline out the window; instead we meet a succession of Austin, Texas residents who mainly represent the crazier side of Generation X a la Texas, pontificating on any number of topics including UFO and assassination conspiracies, financial woes, and pop culture, most memorably Madonna. In what may be a weird nod to Martin Scorsese’s role in TAXI DRIVER (’76), Linklater himself even turns up as a taxi cab passenger in the opening minutes running his mouth about a dream with “nothing going on at all” and how The Wizard of Oz serves as an example of how multiple realities exist. The cumulative effect is dizzying, surreal, morbid, and often hilarious, setting the template for Linklater’s more adventurous side that would turn up again in those BERNIE townspeople segments and his philosophical animated experiment WAKING LIFE (2001) as well as the frequently overlooked SUBURBIA (1996). Shot for peanuts on 16mm with a slew of real colorful Austin residents, it’s really ground zero for the city’s current reputation as the state’s premiere cinema haven and a quirky cultural oasis that has become a synonym for movie geek culture. Now, whether we’ve all really been on Mars since ’62 is a question that has yet to be answered…

I’d bet good money that the one film in this spotlight seen by the smallest amount of people has to be one of the most recent: DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81 (’98). This one proved to be a tough sell at a tricky time when little indies like this were getting crowded out, neither hitting the Miramax-ified art house crowd nor the slick big-budget studio product filling the rapidly accumulating multiplexes. That’s a shame as it’s a sweet little charmer of a film whose PG rating probably turned off any potential younger viewers hoping for something a little rowdier, and if it were made today it would probably go straight to streaming. So in a way it’s fitting you’ll probably find it for the first time here on FilmStruck, where its easygoing charms will be nice and easy to digest. This was part of a slew of late ‘90s teen films essentially throwing a lot of young actors in different combinations to recreate the brat pack magic of the prior decade. Some of them scored direct hits like the SCREAM sequels, AMERICAN PIE (’99) and CAN’T HARDLY WAIT, another 1998 film that shares three of this film’s stars, Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry and Breckin Meyer. (The fourth star here, Eddie Mills, hasn’t been nearly as high profile.)

Technically it has more of a plot than SLACKER but not by much as it features a snapshot of four young men about to graduate from high school, first seen sitting in the middle of the road in foldout chairs under the blazing sun and pondering how to get the Rand McNally atlas to acknowledge their home’s existence. All of them are contemplating leaving the itty-bitty township—as they remark more than once, they first got tickets to go to California two years ago—but there’s also the value of nurturing the roots you’ve been setting up throughout your young life. Not surprisingly, some characters go through with the decision to move way while others have a different fate in store. Mostly though it’s a positive snapshot of male camaraderie without any artificial drama as we stop along the way for concerns like finding a job, enduring a bumbling mishap at church or just hanging out on a porch having a chat. It’s not the kind of thing some viewers will find gripping, but it’s a nice afternoon viewing choice and ultimately quite moving at the end if you let it work its subtle charms. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the treacly score, but you can’t have everything.

A lot of credit for this film’s authenticity has to go to writer-director Tim McCanlies, making his directorial debut and using his knack for little details as a fifth-generation Texan to paint a vivid portrait of day-to-day small-town life. His second feature film, SECONDHAND LIONS (’03), returned to Texas to equally convincing effect, though in between he also wrote what would become one of the most acclaimed American animated films of the past two decades, THE IRON GIANT (’99). It’s a shame we haven’t heard from him in several years as he’s a voice worth hearing.

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