This year we will have to be wizards: if you do not take care of the festive mood on your own, nor social networks, no news feed, nor Santa Claus will help. Time Out offers a faithful tool for creating a New Year's atmosphere - thematic cartoons that will help to plunge into childhood and remember that miracles happen, no matter what.
"The nightmare before christmas"(The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993, Dir. Henry Selik)
Jack Skellington, living in the city of Halloween, passes through the portal and falls into the city of Christmas: So he learns that there is a place in the world not only fear and sadness, but also good and fun. To dilute your monotonous life, Jack decides to try to celebrate a strange new holiday - however, it is not very standard way to choose. The hero kidnaps Santa Claus and occupies his place, because of what the life of Santa, and the Christmas itself turns out to be threatened.
Watching the "nightmare ...", it is difficult to guess that his director was not Tim Burton himself, who only worked on the scenario and produced the project: almost all recognizable receivables appear in the cartoon. "Nightmare" is full of excellent black humor, bright macabric elements and qualitatively prescribed characters.
Separate luck of the picture - grotesque gloomy images of the town of Halloween and its inhabitants, as well as the amazing musical theme of Danny Elfana, who also voiced Jack's vocal parties and some other characters.
"Chrismas story"(A Christmas Carol, 2009, Dir. Robert Zeekis)
Among the film adaptions of the "Christmas song in prose", Charles Dickens are not so much truly successful paintings, but the screening of Robert Zeekis is one of them. Thanks to modern technologies, the picture in the cartoon is characterized by special saturation, and from the format of the virtual attraction that allows the viewer to look at London from the height of a bird's eye, captures the spirit.
Images and locations are remembered, perfectly transferred to the screen from the literary source. The gloomy kind of penetrated by the poor backyard and cold housing is combined with the atmosphere of the upcoming holiday, which gives hope for the celebration of good.
The technology of Motion Capture (movement capture) is deserved separately, which Zsekis used is completely justified. It is thanks to this that we can enjoy the expressive faith of Jim Kerry, who perfectly played the ebenesers of the Scrooge.
"Polar Express"(The Polar Express, 2004, Robert Zeekis)
Even earlier, the technology of "capturing the movement" at Zemkisa could be seen in the "Polar Express", where the basic characters were also endowed with movements, gestures and facial expressions of actors, for example, Tom Hanks. The 3D-format has perfectly worked, thanks to which the feeling of what you yourself are carrying on a high-speed train.
Chris Wan Ollsburg film adaptation is especially attractive in that it makes it necessary to feel the magic of childhood, which is so difficult to maintain with age. According to the plot behind the main hero, cease to believe in Christmas, the Christmas year comes to the Christmas Eve, which is sent to the North Pole. The boy enjoys the opportunity and go on a journey in which he rethinks its values and make heroic actions. In general, the revival of faith in a miracle is inevitably.
What films are watching in the New Year in different countries of the world
Editorial Time Out Silved New Year's tops of the cinema of different countries and chose the most interesting options.
Read the article
"Once in Tokyo"(Tokyo Godfathers, 2003, dir. Kon Satoshi)
The third Counter of San Satori received its name in honor of the "Three Cross Fathers" John Ford - history in which three vagrants were forced to take care of a newborn baby. In "Once in Tokyo", the central characters are the alcoholic jin, destroying his life because of passion for gambling, crossdressman Khan, who lost his beloved, and the high school girl Miuki - she wounded his father's knife, thinking that he was to blame her cat.
On the eve of Christmas, the eccentric heroes find a newborn girl on the landfill. Khan, holding all the childhood in the shelters, initiates the search for parents of the child: for her this mission becomes the beginning of the path to inner healing, since as a result she hopes to forgive their own mother.
The picture consists of a series of events that occur with Gin, Hanoi and Miyuki as they are wicked, initially apparent hopeless. They help the oncoming Yakuza, stumble on the gang of embittered adolescents, meet old friends and relatives, swear and put together. In the end, an adventurous adventure develops into something more: the heroes pass through the atonement and are revealed with new ones for themselves.
"Once in Tokyo" delays the viewer into his gloomy atmosphere. Dirty, radiating hopelessness of the shortcuts are mixed with ice highways - and the background of all this is an image of a faceless and indifferent crowd. However, even despite this, the tape reminds that in the world there is still a place for a miracle.
"Christmas Eve"(1951, dir. Valentina Broomberg and Zinaida Broomberg)
"The night before Christmas" of Brumbergs inherits the famous story from the cycle "Evenings on the farm near Dikanka." In detail described at Gogol, Zaporizhia, satisted by casual cheerfulness, which is closely intertwined with mysticism. That's the Soviet cartoon allows you to plunge into the national flavor of the Ukrainian village and feel the chill running around the skin.
The images of the unclean, the appearance of which is accompanied by the piercing compositions of the Roman Corsakov, so thinly woven into the ordinary Zaporizhia life, which seems like a witch on a broomstick, which is in the sleeve of the stars, and the features, hiding in his pocket, are located right outside the window.
30 years old "one house": 15 facts about the Great Christmas Comedy
Time Out remembers 15 interesting facts from the history of creating the movie "One House".
Read the article