IDIOTS and ANGELS: A Film Screening w/Special Guest Oscar nominated animator BILL PLYMPTON at the State Theater - Tuesday Sept 27 8 PM
Produced by our friend Alex Dawson, Raconteur Productions
Idiots and Angels is a ghoulishly dark film, not appropriate for children.
"Toulouse-Lautrec by way of Charles Bukowski." -The New York Times
“If The Nightmare Before Christmas, Barfly, and Wings of Desire had a menage-a-trois, their surrealist progeny would be this extraordinary film." - Interview Magazine
Described by The New York Times as "ceaselessly imaginative, relentless and brilliant," and hailed simply as "God" by Simpsons creator Matt Groening, two time Academy Award–nominee Bill Plympton screens and answers questions about his latest feature film, Idiots and Angels, and reads and signs his new autobiography, Independently Animated. Plus a special onstage conversation hosted by cartoonist & Plympton fan Patrick McDonnell, the creator of MUTTS.
Film trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDvCEL8Dyk
Buy tix: http://www.statetheatrenj.org/idiots_and_angels
After the performance, we expect Bill Plympton to be at the bar of Catherine Lombardi if you would like to meet this Oscar-nominated, talented genius of animation.
Hand-drawn in pencil entirely by Plympton himself, the gorgeously creepy Idiots and Angels is a grim, mostly monochromatic, fairy-tale comedy about a boozy, brutish businessman who suddenly sprouts angel wings. A departure from Plympton’s earlier, talkier work, which, along with the Oscar-nominated shorts Your Face and Guard Dog, includes the video for Kanye West’s “Heard ‘Em Say,” Plympton's sixth and best animated feature contains not a word of dialogue; the only human sounds are bestial grunts and chortles and a growling soundtrack by Tom Waits. This is a disturbing, earthy and elegant epic. Just don’t bring the kids.
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