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The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge, 1956)/White Mane (Crin-Blanc, 1953)

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2007-11-25 11:16:42 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge, 1956 White Mane (Crin-Blanc, 1953) Director: Albert Lamorisse By Marilyn Ferdinand We all tend to hold dear the images and experiences of our childhood. For people in their 20s, The Little Mermaid and Scooby Doo may be the beloved images of youth. For people who were young in the mid 1950s and early 1960s, The Red...
 
Tags: red balloon, balloon, white mane, red balloon touches, white mane fight, humble white mane, white mane evokes, cute pascal lamorisse, boy walks
 
 
 
 
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Moviegoer Diary: Be Kind Rewind, The Red Balloon

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2008-02-20 22:10:00 by Paul Matwychuk in The Moviegoer
...BALLOON Plot in a Nutshell Albert Lamorisses beloved 1956 short film about a Parisian schoolboy who befriends a sentient balloon Thoughts I know its the title, but I really wasnt prepared for how incredibly red the balloon in this movie turned out to be. Ive never seen a balloon this red in my lifedo you think the filmmakers treated the...
 
Tags: balloon, red balloon, sentient balloon, balloon visit, balloon floats past, floats, red, blue balloon, balloon encounter
 
 
 
 
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Flight of the Red Balloon - my review

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2008-04-05 00:02:38 by Jeffrey Overstreet in
...balloon Watching Hou Hsiao-Hsiens new film Flight of the Red Balloon , there are many possible answers to that question We watch seven-year-old Simon meander along Paris sidewalks, and his progress is as lazy and jaunty as the path of that red balloon above him. His lackadaisical stride stands in stark contrast to the crisscrossing...
 
Tags: balloon, red balloon, film severance, film, film features, french short film, short film, descends, balloon descends
 
 
 
 
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The Flight of the Red Balloon.

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2008-03-31 04:05:19 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Balloon finds the director in a foreign country paying homage to another filmmaker," writes Chris Wisniewski at indieWIRE . "With Lumiere , Yasujiro Ozu was Hou's reference point and Tokyo his canvas; here, Hou reimagines Albert Lamorisse 's classic 1956 short The Red Balloon as a Parisian family melodrama A remarkably rich, rewarding, and...
 
Tags: red balloon, flight, film caf lumire, film, writes michael koresky, purely wrought canvases, parisian family melodrama, emotional subject matter, recognizable set pieces
 
 
 
 
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Twisted Balloon Doc Hits Big Time

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2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Richard von Busack in Cinematical
...balloons has made its way into the spotlight without an inflated media campaign. Sounds like the New York Times 's Douglas Quenqua has noticed Sara Taksler and Naomi Greenfield's documentary about balloon twisting during its nationwide tour. After debuting at 2007's SXSW ( Cinematical 's Scott Weinberg notes the opening of Twisted: A...
 
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Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge) FRENCH

2008-04-04 22:42:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...balloon, a development reminiscent of the 1956 French classic The Red Balloon about a peripatetic Parisian boy also trailed by what else but a red balloon This praiseworthy homage, directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou, doesnt provide much of a linear plotline worth following, unless you care to be distracted by foul-mouthed Suzannes annoying caterwaul...
 
Tags: red balloon, french, simon, year-old simon, escape, surreal cinematic escape, song, french classic, imaginative child
 
 
 
 
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Indie Weekend Box Office: 'Flight of the Red Balloon' Soars Above

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2008-04-07 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Balloon ( IFC Films ), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien , averaged $17,450 at the two screens where it played in Manhattan, according to estimates compiled by Leonard Klady at Movie City News . Jeffrey M. Anderson wrote: "Like Hou's more recent work, Flight of the Red Balloon moves a little more toward international accessibility and away from his...
 
Tags: red balloon, red balloon moves, flight, box office, taiwanese film student, film, wong, wong kar wai, weekend
 
 
 
 
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Take a magical journey with "The Red Balloon"

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2008-04-29 05:51:00 by Reel Fanatic in Reel Fanatic
...Balloon" ("Le Ballon rouge") has apparently been available on some kind of DVD for a few years now (I've only seen it on a very grainy VHS copy), but now the folks at Criterion have given this magical short film the proper respect it deserves As premises go, it really doesn't get much simpler than this one. Our hero, Pascal (the director's...
 
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Review: Flight of the Red Balloon

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2008-04-04 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Balloon . In 1999, the Village Voice critics' poll chose Hou as the director of the decade, and three of his films placed in the decade's top 100: Flowers of Shanghai (#3), The Puppetmaster (#16) and Goodbye South, Goodbye (#61). That same year, a touring retrospective of Hou's work had the critical community all abuzz, and apparently sold a...
 
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