NOVEMBER 18, 1994
U.S. spots scored big at the London International Advertising Awards, with Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, and BBDO New York tying with three. Additionally, director Joe Pytka won statues in four categories….DNA, Hollywood, a six-year-old music video house under the aegis of president David Naylor, has launched a commercial production division. Lisa Dulebohn, founder and former executive producer of bicoastal RSA USA’s Black Dog Films, will serve as executive producer of the new division….Director Neil Burger has signed with bicoastal RSA USA for exclusive spot representation. Berger had previously been with bicoastal Chelsea Pictures….
NOVEMBER 17, 1989
Tom McElligott, co-founder of Fallon McElligott, Minneapolis, has assumed the newly created post of executive VP/ executive creative director at Chiat/Day/Mojo, New York…. Sidney Lumet, director of such feature films as Twelve Angry Men, The Pawnbroker and Dog Day Afternoon, is available for spot duty via Odyssey Filmmakers, Los Angeles….Sussan & Company, New York, has just inked a deal with director Bobby Sheehan for commercial representation in New York, regional markets and, soon, Los Angeles. Sheehan has exited Henway Productions, a shop he formed with former Young & Rubicam, New York, producer Eve Frumkin….
Review: Writer-Director Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail”
It's not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath and read "The Diary of Anne Frank" — or when the story's inspired by a quote from existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard. And it's certainly not your typical stop-motion film when you find yourself crying as much as the characters do — in their case, with huge droplets leaking from bulging, egg-shaped eyes so authentic-looking, you expect the screen to get wet. But those are just a few of the unique things about Adam Elliot's "Memoir of a Snail," a film that's as heart-tugging as it is technically impressive, a work of both emotional resonance and great physical detail using only clay, wire, paper and paint. One thing Elliot's film is not, though, is for kids. So please take note before heading to the multiplex with family in tow: this film earns its R rating, as you'll discover as soon as young Grace, voiced by Sarah Snook, tells us she thought masturbation was about chewing your food properly. Sex, nudity, drunk driving, a fat fetish — like we said, it's R-rated for a reason. But let's start at the beginning. In this, his seventh "clayography" (for "clay" and "biography"), the Australian writer-director explores the process of collecting unnecessary objects. Otherwise known as hoarding, it's something that weighs us down in ways we can't see, for all the clutter. Elliot also argues that it helps us build constrictive shells around ourselves — like snail shells, perhaps. Our protagonist is Grace Pudel, voiced with a quirky warmth and plenty of empathy by the wonderfully agile Snook. We first encounter Grace as a grown woman, telling her long, lonely life story to her pet garden snail, Sylvia (named after Plath), at a moment of deep sadness. Then we flash... Read More