Waltz with Bashir (movie)

“Chico & Rita”: A mostly Spanish-language drama that opens in Los Angeles on Friday, “Chico & Rita” tackles mature subjects like sex, ambition and regret in a format Hollywood studios reserve for kid-friendly fare: animation....

t was the great surprise in this past year's Oscars, a movie that the smart money never saw coming. Best foreign language film? Had to be Waltz with Bashir, right? Wrong. The wry, compassionate and elegiac Japanese comedy-drama Departures took home...

Animated features have long been the favored medium for telling kid-friendly stories about princesses and cuddly creatures. But if New York-based animator Bill Plympton were to have his way, moviegoers would also see more hand-drawn offerings depicting...

In 2008, the committee that oversees the Oscars' foreign-language film category came under withering criticism for avoiding risky movies. Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a frank account of a young girl's illegal abortion, wasn't nominated, nor...

For nearly 40 minutes, I thought that “Precious Life� was going to be a feel-good documentary about how, if you just put aside the bitterness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you could imagine that an individual act of compassion might offer......

The Oscars race for best animated feature may look like it's all sewn "Up," but don't bet on it. Yes, Pixar films have claimed that Academy Award four times in the eight years of the category's existence with victories by "Finding Nemo" (2003), "The...

A new invader has descended on Beirut: He is Grendizer. The iconic Grendizer of 1970s anime fame is the official poster boy (bot?) of the Beirut Animated film festival, which opens today as a collaboration between Beirut-based Samandal Comics and......

Marcus Brogdan, in London and writing for the Associated Press, delves into the comics and controversy of the great Joe Sacco, who has a gift for cartooning-as-journalism but a subject matter and subjectivity that add up to a talent for......

REVIEW Los Angeles Times book editor David L. Ulin has reviewed the new book from Joe Sacco and found that it doesn't answer the big questions about the Middle East and that may be its biggest strength. "Footnotes in Gaza"......

Our great pal and fellow Envelope contributor Pete Hammond has jetted off to the South of France and is filing a series of must-read reports on the annual Cannes film festival. For Pete, "the festival may not quite be an Oscar movie magnet. After all it...

Graphic novels and animation continue to push into bold new areas of expression and storytelling, and increasingly with the spirit of political commentary or exposé. More and more we see firebrand works that speak to the vivid heritage of documentary.......

One of last year's most-discussed foreign films, this Oscar nominee details – through extensive animation – the experiences of the film's writer-director, Ari Folman, a former Israeli soldier who was privy to a massacre following the death of Lebanon's...