The film recently earned five Annie Award nominations including best animated indie feature and best direction. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The Red Turtle got a boost in the awards race on Monday ...

Of the five Academy Award nominees in the best animated feature category this year, the sole entry that is primarily hand-drawn is Michael Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle. Dudok de Wit met the challenge ...

We’re born; life washes us up on various shores; we build our sand castles and navigate the years; we die. From this four-part miniseries we call human existence, the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de ...

Michael Dudok de Wit’s feature-length directorial debut, The Red Turtle (La Tortue Rouge), which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival this week, has unveiled its first trailer: Dudok de Wit is ...

“The Red Turtle” is a visually stunning poetic fable, but there’s more on its mind than simply beauty. The first full-length work by Oscar-winning Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit and a ...

Dutch writer-director Michael Dudok de Wit’s first animated feature is quiet, mysterious, and breathtaking. It is almost entirely void of vocal language, other than the occasional emotive grunt. It ...

While it has yet to premiere, we’d wager a bet that The Red Turtle is a strong contender for the most beautiful film of Cannes. Co-produced by Studio Ghibli, the feature animation directed by Michaël ...

Maybe it’s the weather. But this weekend, here in Chico, it’s time to transition out of summer. All of a sudden, the sun’s heat feels less forceful, and the nights start to get colder pretty quickly.

LOOK OUT for one horrific moment in this otherwise gentle Oscar contender for Best Animation from Dutch director/co-writer/animator Michael Dudok de Wit and Studio Ghibli. It comes near the middle of ...

If you see just one film this year about a desert island castaway who mates and raises a family with a giant crimson tortoise that mysteriously transmogrifies into a beautiful redhead, do yourself a ...

A Dutch animator based in London, Michael Dudok de Wit made his feature directorial debut with Sony Pictures Classics’ The Red Turtle, a film produced in part by Japan’s Studio Ghibli. An 80-minute ...