A friendly reminder that animated does not automatically mean "for children," "Memoir of a Snail" is a wholly unique story of adulthood and alienation that could only be told through animation. Its ...

Drawing on his own life experiences and inspired by friends and acquaintances he’s met along the way, filmmaker Adam Elliot has landed himself an Academy Award nomination for his decidedly not ...

This may be the best stop-motion animation film since Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has taken 30 years for a movie as ambitious and wildly creative as Memoir of a Snail to grace the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The animated conversation this year has been dominated by the medium’s biggest grosser yet (“Inside Out 2”) and one of the most ...

Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot is at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with his long-awaited second stop-motion feature Memoir of a Snail, which world premieres in the ...

The feature jury said in a statement: “Without a word of dialogue, Gints Zilbalodis weaves sound, music and immersive animation to show how powerful the medium can be when coupled with the right story ...

“Memoirs of a Snail” isn’t even close to being an animated movie for kids. But, Adam Elliot’s R-rated stop-motion film is a very fine movie for adults. Meticulously constructed and filmed with ...

Regular moviegoers — and even some Academy members — often believe that directing an animated feature means standing over an artist’s shoulder and simply saying, “Draw this.” But the six directors ...

Drawing on his own life experiences and inspired by friends and acquaintances he's met along the way, filmmaker Adam Elliot ...