Dakota Fanning

Teri Hatcher

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn French

Keith David

Ian McShane

John Hodgman

Robert Bailey Jr.

Aankha Neal

Hannah Kaiser

George Selick

Harry Selick

Marina Budovsky

Emerson Tenney

Jerome Ranft

Christopher Murrie

Jeremy Ryder

Carolyn Crawford

Yona Prost

John Linnell

Henry Selick

Bruno Coulais

Chris Butler

Mike Cachuela

Rich Zim

Travis Knight

Harry Linden

Michael Zoumas

Julianna Cox

Brad Schiff

Andy Schuhler

Graham Annable

Billy Cabey

Sarah de Gaudemar

Brian Demoskoff

Misha Klein

Malcolm Lamont

Shane Prigmore

Guionne Leroy

Jeffery Mulcaster

Phil Brotherton

Anthony Elworthy

Bartek Prusiewicz

Andrew Salter

Gregory Smith

Ronald Sanders

Ken Lidster

Jeff Riley

Dawn Swiderski

Amy Adamy

Tom Gasek

Kevin Glick

Gabe Sprenger

Alex Heineman

Mary Sandell

Lee Bo Henry

Tom Proost

Robert Ducey

Michelle Gorski

David J. Rowe

Jennifer Downs

Rachel Larsen

Rob Bekuhrs

Kim Blanchette

Payton Curtis

Brian Menz

Claire Jennings

Justin Kohn

Philip Beglan

Phil Dale

Teresa Drilling

Dan Krall

Jan-Erik Maas

Chris Tichborne

Bill Mechanic

Pete Kozachik

Kent Burton

Martin Meunier

Anthony Scott

Shannon Tindle

Vera Brosgol

Eric Leighton

Chris Tootell

Ian Whitlock

John Allan Armstrong

Trey Thomas

Suzanne Twining

Tim Yates

Chris Appelhans

Tom Knott

Jeannine Berger

Eric Wachtman

Adam Fisher

Rob Partenheimer

Colette D. Dahanne

Erin Baldwin

Michaele Smith

Chris Steele

Scarlet Chamberlin

Bradley Buchanan

Yin-Yee 'Grace' Chung

Tom Boyd

Loren Hillman-Morgan

Phil Knight

Rebecca Leiv

Jeff Stringer

Bradley Miles

Brandon Lastomirsky

Anne Adams

Stephanie Choi

Everette Webber

Glen Gagnon

Gloria Cheng

Camille Joutard

Mike Lovett

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coraline

coraline y la puerta

Neil Gaiman is so contemporarily vital, both in literature and cinema, because he more than anyone else (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam) notes that children and adults alike are fascinated with what lies outside our observable and tangible realms of existence. He realized the reasons storytelling have been significantly important since the dawn of mankind, and devised, as the Brothers Grimm did, that fairy tales and children's stories had to be haunting and entertaining to be both memorable and timeless. This is a great film depicting the growing sense as a child approaches adolescence that their parents and their world aren't exactly as they seem, and that through their trials and tribulations (the 'rites of passage', if you will) they'll reach the 'happy medium' they need to in order to find true happiness in their lifetimes.

I definitely hope that all of Gaiman's books and graphic novels are made into movies (I most anticipate the 'Miracleman' graphic novels--both those by him and Alan Moore). Ones so well-written would truly be 'comic book movies' worth watching for me.

ZeBlah

Quite dark, but entertaining and very well done. One of the few american animated movies I liked.

Kamurai

Fantastic watch, will watch again, and do recommend.

I really wish more movies would follow this simple and great movie structure.  Instead of a typical 3-act structure (not that it isn't technically there), the story is much closer to that of a video game.

You have a standard introductory act, but the rest of the movie is split into video game-esque "levels" that develop and unlock as Coraline makes new discoveries and completes different sections of the "map" / house.

There is a lot of messaging here as well, mostly concerning relationships between children and parents and how to navigate those in regard to real life events, but everything is "do not tell" levels of subtle so it's not in your face at all.

The Beldam itself is a magnificent creation of a "thing that bumps in the night" style of monster.  While there is a lot left unexplained, there is plenty that is exampled about the Beldam and her world.

The movie also reminds me a lot of "The Wizard of Oz" in a few different ways so its good that there are family friendly movies of this quality that make vague callbacks to classic movies.

Henry Selick on Coraline and his love of stop-motion animation | BFI in Conversation

Coraline( 2009)

Be careful what you wish for.

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A review by talisencrw

Written by talisencrw on Tue May 03 2016

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