Even in this age of digital manipulation, stop-motion animation holds a fascination for movie audiences, and there have been some brilliant examples through cinema’s history. From the year 2000 alone ...

A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas ...

Ladislas Starevich is one of the first stop-motion animators, who made his name with a series of darkly comedic fairy tales about the lives of infidelitious beetles and peeping-tom grasshoppers. His ...

Stop-motion is a form of reanimation where physical objects gain lifelike movements. It’s why films like Kubo and the Two Strings from Laika feel so different from Pixar fare. This same quality is ...

Another purchase I made at Cinecon this past Labor Day, was an entire stack of Films In Review magazines, the entire run from 1956 through 1959. I’ve been going through them slowly and enjoying them ...

For part two of its 10th anniversary, Silent Music Revival presents Ladislas Starevich’s “The Night Before Christmas” (1913), the story of a witch and demon stealing the moon, at Gallery5 on Sunday, ...

Stephen and Timothy Quay, a pair of identical twin brothers from Norristown, Pennsylvania, have brought something special to their oeuvre of stop motion animation films. Starting with the raw ...

A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy inspired by the works of ...