BS: The name of a film?

Subject: BS: The name of a film?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:35 PM

what is the name of a short animated film which was nominated to the Oscars Awards few years ago?.I can only remember that there were 3 old women,and the music was music in the style of Benny Goodman(swing music)

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Firecat
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:53 PM

Was it Belleville Rendezvous?

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: CET
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 08:07 PM

Charmion actually -- No, it was the Triplets of Belleville, and its central characters were a bicycle-obsessed boy and his elderly mother.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 08:17 PM

And the triplets who live on a diet of frogs.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: bobad
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:01 PM

Les Triplettes de Belleville

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 03:59 AM

It was called Belleville Rendezvous in the UK - fantastic film. I particularly liked the way the French mafia drove around in stretch 2CV's!
For me the film also caught to a tee the single-mindedness, and sheer physical effort, of the racing cyclist.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Splott Man
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 11:08 AM

And it was all hand-drawn, fantastic draughtsmanship.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 12:30 PM

Sounds wonderful, and I see that my library has a copy that is on the shelf, so I'll go pick it up this afternoon. Thanks for the thread!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 04:01 PM

OK, here is another one: it had Charles Laughton with amazing eyebrows as a madman, there were people trying to wreck a ship and being foiled by the woman who was then kidnapped by the insane Laughton, who ends up throwing himself from the rigging of another ship? Old movie, of course, black & white...

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 05:45 PM

Take a look here and maybe you'll find it in the Laughton filmography.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:37 AM

Sounds like a cross between the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mutiny on the Bounty.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 12:28 AM

Hunchback of the Bounty? or Mutiny at Notre Dame?

Oh dear....I think I have been at the pills again......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 03:09 PM

Loved the film

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 01:16 PM

Jamaica Inn, with a very young O'Hara (who played wife to John Wayne a number of times); made in the '30s; based on a famous novel; Laughton played a local magistrate/minor nobleman who was the "fence" for a cause-a-shipwreck-steal-the-cargoandeverythingelse-and-sell-it gang on the coast of Cornwall (I think--that western-reaching penninsula that's the south edge of Britain). Lots of racing around at night in high winds and dark shadows....    Tw

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 01:34 PM

I wondered about Jamaica Inn, but I read the novel, didn't see the movie. I think I read that the film changed who was the bad guy.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 01:47 PM

Just take a couple dried frogs pills JennieG and everything will be alright.

The Triplets of Belleville seemed a bit odd to me. Maybe it was that the cyclists seemed to be autistic. Try Tokyo Godfathers for a really good story and animation.

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 01:08 AM

Loved the first few minutes of Triplettes that was drawn in a retro style like an old Max Fleisher artoon, especially the cameo appearance of an obvious Django caricature on guitar (check out the fingers).

Subject: RE: BS: The name of a film?
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 07:51 PM

Django.