Like a lot of politically charged films, Norman McLaren’s “Neighbours” was controversial upon release and his since come to be regarded as an important classic. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the winner of an Academy Award in 1953, McLaren’s eight-minute short can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube. Watch below.
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The stop-motion short finds two men reading newspapers with opposing headlines in front of their cardboard houses when a flower sprouts at the halfway point between their respective homes. Both are drawn to it, eventually leading to a conflict: They put up a fence and use parts of it as swords, devolving more and more into barbarism as their feud escalates.
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“I was inspired to make ‘Neighbours...
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The stop-motion short finds two men reading newspapers with opposing headlines in front of their cardboard houses when a flower sprouts at the halfway point between their respective homes. Both are drawn to it, eventually leading to a conflict: They put up a fence and use parts of it as swords, devolving more and more into barbarism as their feud escalates.
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“I was inspired to make ‘Neighbours...
- 2/19/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
For Norman McLaren form is everything. That makes sense given the medium he chose to express his art. Short films are, perhaps more than any other expression of film, succinct and to the point. The story is in the form, the vision is in the form, the art is in the form. To that end many directors have spent many years trying their best to manipulate the form. Film is malleable after all, that is the most breathtaking aspect of the medium. To see something so straightforward taken and twisted until it meets the vision of the artist is akin to the definition of art.
That is where Norman McLaren enters the picture. He was a master at taking the form of the short film and twisting and turning it until it fit his vision of art. Take a film like Dots for instance. A simple red animated landscape is...
That is where Norman McLaren enters the picture. He was a master at taking the form of the short film and twisting and turning it until it fit his vision of art. Take a film like Dots for instance. A simple red animated landscape is...
- 4/4/2015
- by Bill Thompson
- SoundOnSight
The big movie this weekend is Neighbors, starring Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen. This makes it the perfect time to watch another film called Neighbours, starring two Canadian animators and one particularly pesky yellow flower. After all, they’re basically the same movie. You can also consider it your personal celebration of the National Film Board of Canada, which celebrated its 75th anniversary this week. Norman McLaren‘s Oscar-winning 1952 short is a classic of stop-motion animation. And, like Nicholas Stoller’s new comedy, it is about two next-door neighbors who just can’t get along. The conflict in the new one is a bit more complex, framed as an inter-generational war between a married couple with a young child and a college fraternity. The 1952 Neighbours is just about two nondescript guys, almost exactly alike. They sit next to each other peacefully on their front lawns, reading newspapers that mirror each other. They...
- 5/10/2014
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Why Watch? Because Dušan Vukotić is your new favorite old school Croatian animator, I promise you that. Piccolo is a gleefully ridiculous exercise in allegory, poking fun at the Cold War at its peak. Two neighbors share a house, split down the middle. They lead a quiet, friendly existence until one of them buys a tiny (piccolo) harmonica. His refusal to put the damn thing down, even in the middle of the night, kicks off an arms race in miniature as they try to out-blast each other with an endless progression of instruments. In a way, this is a musically-minded remake of Norman McLaren’s Oscar-winning Neighbours (1952), but without its bleak sense of humor. Piccolo‘s comedy is beaming, taking advantage of the dynamic character of Vukotić’s style. A pair of cymbals turns into a bicycle. The walls of the house are punctured by pizzicato. There’s a particularly clever gag involving a bottle of gin...
- 4/3/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
London, Sep 26 – Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah was recently taken into custody on suspicion of drink driving after a late-night argument with her beau.
The drama, which started in the early hours of Thursday morning, saw cops called to the couple’s London flat twice.
Thereafter, police arrested her behind the wheels of her Mercedes Mclaren Supercar.
Neighbours were woken by screaming and shouting at around in the early hours when they heard Amelle, 26, was banging on the door of the flat she shares with boyfriend Tom Benn, 30.
When one worried neighbour raced to the scene, Tom pleaded with him to call the police claiming he was restraining Amelle.
“It was mayhem. They must.
The drama, which started in the early hours of Thursday morning, saw cops called to the couple’s London flat twice.
Thereafter, police arrested her behind the wheels of her Mercedes Mclaren Supercar.
Neighbours were woken by screaming and shouting at around in the early hours when they heard Amelle, 26, was banging on the door of the flat she shares with boyfriend Tom Benn, 30.
When one worried neighbour raced to the scene, Tom pleaded with him to call the police claiming he was restraining Amelle.
“It was mayhem. They must.
- 9/26/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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