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Ben Burtt does the tin-canny voice of WALL-E. Elissa Knight is the love interest, the space-probe robot appropriately called EVE. You also may recognize familiar vocals by Fred Willard ("Ira and Abby," "Best in Show"), John Ratzenberger (TV's "Cheers," "Ratatouille"), Jeff Garlin (TVs "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Daddy Day Care"), Kathy Najimy ("The Wedding Planner," "Sister Act"), and Sigourney Weaver ("Galaxy Quest," "Alien") in supporting roles.
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[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.] crosses swords with [Ronald Colman] in The Prisoner of Zenda,' playing Sunday night at the Rafael with visual and sound effects Oscar-winners Craig Barron and Ben Burtt in person sharing rare behind-the-scenes footage.
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El elenco de voces de WALL*E incluye a Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), Elissa Knight (Cars), Sigourney Weaver (Alien), John Ratzenberger (Toy Story), Kathy Najimy ("King of the Hill") y Fred Willard (Chicken Little). El director de sonido ganador de un Premio de la Academia® Ben Burtt (franquicias de Star Wars y Indiana Jones) proporciona la entrañable voz de WALL*E, el pequeño robot que nunca se da por vencido. Es este lanzamiento en cines, WALL*E impresiono a todos los críticos con su historia de aventura combinada con una animación innovadora y una visión imaginativa detallada del futuro. Claudia Puig del USA TODAY elogia los "visuales impresionantes" y le da "4 de 4 estrellas". "WALL-E es una película que quieres descubrir", comenta el entusiasmado Owen Gleiberman de Entertain...
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Wall-E, though weary from the incessant and repetitive toil, is fascinated by the refuge around him. He collects things that catch his eye, returns with them to his storage container home where, after a long day of compacting, he removes his tanktrack shoes, sorts his stuff (a great silent gag finds Wall-E indecisive as he looks back and forth between a pile of forks and pile of spoons, a spork clasped in his metal graspers) and watches his prized copy of Hello, Dolly!, a musical from which Wall-E learns the intricacies of dancing, romance and Earth's human past before he finally sinks into deep, dreamless sleep mode. Despite his friendship with a seemingly immortal cockroach, Wall-E is lonely.
All this changes when the curvaceous EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) arrives. Th...
... of whistles and chirps (he's voiced by Ben Burtt, the sonic specialist behind R2-D2) that are only ...
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He does environmental pieces, often that will erode, so some of them are temporary. But the audience for that film was incredible. Who would have expected that? The Marin audience really took to it and distinguished itself nationally in terms of supporting that film. If you look at how well the film did in relation to the size of the population here, it's extraordinary. The downside of having such a responsive audience is that sometimes I can't accommodate all the requests I get. We're constantly getting people calling or e -mailing, asking if we're getting a little film that they've read about. And unfortunately, we only have three screens. And if something is successful, we can't take it off-screen early. Slumdog Millionaire we played from Thanksgiving until the end of March, when it ...
... -winning wizards of the industry like Ben Burtt give us behind-the-scenes peeks at special -effect...
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Concluding the evening will be a suite of Japanese composer Kazuiko Koyama's music from director Sho Igarashi's Adan, about obsessive-compulsive artists' habits and the response by the outside world, including one girl, Adan. Guest performer Michihiro Sato, on the Chinese shamisen, will perform as clips from Adan are screened. Adan, a festival nominee for Actor (Takaaki Enoki) and Music categories, will be presented at the Westcott Cinema on Friday, April 7, 10:15 p.m., and Saturday, April 8, 7 p.m.
Earlier on Friday, a two-part presentation "Forum on Sound and Music" kicks off with a morning session featuring [Alvaro Buela] and [Sylvia Meyer], as well as Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt, at Le Moyne College's Grewen Hall, 1419 Salt Springs Road, from 9 a.m. to noon. For information, ...
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From Academy Award-winning writer/director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo") comes the story of one robot's comic adventures as he chases his dream across the galaxy. Filled with surprises, action, humor and heart, the animated feature from Disney-Pixar features original and innovative sound design by Academy Award-winner Ben Burtt ("Star Wars," "Indiana Jones," E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"), as well as the voice talents of Burtt, Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger and Kathy Najimy. Shown with the short film, "Presto." Rated G. Runtime 1 hour 43 minutes.
In Los Angeles circa 1915, a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) is in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee Pace), who captivates her with a whimsical story...
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WALL*E -- **** -- Animated feature, starring the voices of Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin and others; rated G (animated violence)
Technological advances make "WALL*E" the best-looking of all the Pixar animated features to date.
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is the latest animated family feature from director and co- writer Andrew Stanton and the gang at Pixar. It's a cleverly written tale that is equal parts comedy, space adventure, cautionary eco-warning, sci-fi dystopia and love story. And the undisputed star of this thoroughly engaging film is that winsome, little metal guy: WALL'E manages to find love, thwart evil, restore Earth's balance - and, I have little doubt, win your heart.
Of course, having huge, vulnerable "eyes" makes instantly cute (and something about the inquisitive tilt of 's "head" recalls Luxo Jr., the "star" of Pixar's groundbreaking short about articulated lamps). But there are no shortcuts to establishing 's humanity, such as the faces added to autos in Cars or the chattering fish of Findin...
... is "voiced" by longtime sound designer Ben Burtt, who also put words in the mouth of another likeab...
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That's right, whether you were curious enough about Benjamin Button to sit through three hours of a Brad Pitt "Smeagol" impression or couldn't tell the difference between "sound mixing" and "sound editing" if Ben Burtt was squawking it out with an ARP 2600, fear not. You only have to know more about this stuff than our editorial board of Oscar experts. (We'll pause while you google "ben burtt.")
We warn you in advance - we're pretty good at this. While this may be our first Oscar contest, we've been making wild guesses about these things for years. It was we who first declared that Three 6 Mafia would charm voters with 2006's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" and that The Pianist director Roman Polanski's statutory rape charges were considered a "personality quirk" to Academy members of 2...