MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI Arrives On DVD!

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1. Arch Stanton 11/08/2007 @ 4:13pm

   This looks amazing.I’ll definitely be getting a copy. I don’t see any specs but I hope there is maybe a commentary or making of supplement.

2. Michael Guillen 11/08/2007 @ 5:22pm

   ...and I’ll be talking to the filmmakers tomorrow.

3. Kurt Halfyard 11/08/2007 @ 5:36pm

   Michael - Please ask about the potential of Bruce McDonald directing an Ed the Happy Clown movie adaptation floating with Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski doing animation duties…

4. Michael Guillen 11/08/2007 @ 5:46pm

   Ooooooh.  Great tip!!  Thanks, Kurt!

5. Tuan Jim 11/08/2007 @ 7:25pm

   That link’s not working for me at all.

6. Arch Stanton 11/08/2007 @ 7:44pm

   The link does work, it’s been loading reeeeeeal slow for a few hours lately.

7. Kurt Halfyard 11/08/2007 @ 8:56pm

   God Bless the National Film Board of Canada and their shitty slow website.  Go Canadian Government!

8. Bob Turnbull 11/08/2007 @ 9:25pm

   I’ve seen this short twice now (once at the Worldwide Short Film Festival last June - where it won Best Animated Short - and again recently before a screening of Kurosawa’s “Pulse” at the NFB Theatre). It’s quite remarkable - anyone who has seen it will immediately mention the incredibly realistic eyes…

   I expect it’ll be an Oscar contender. It richly deserves the attention it’s getting.

9. Tuan Jim 11/09/2007 @ 5:37am

   I know my broadband connection here in Korea isn’t perfect but this site hasn’t come up once yet and I’ve tried at least 10 times now.

10. Michael Guillen 11/09/2007 @ 9:31am

    Odd.  I don’t mean to be too neener-neener-neener, but it works perfectly fine for me.  I’m accessing it on my MacBook.  Perhaps that helps?

11. Arch Stanton 11/09/2007 @ 2:10pm

    Anyone in the Toronto are can get a cpoy at the NFB’s Mediatechnique on John street. I picked one up and just finished watching it. Man , these guys need to do a feature length project, I didn’t want that to end. The listed running time says 17 min but it’s actually 16min + credits. I read a ton of Kafka years ago and this felt a little like Kafka meets the Quay Brothers ( at least when it comes to those three “uninvited guests” )

    The DVD is bare bones, no commentary or features. It would have been nice to have the features that are on the website, the clips and photo gallery on the DVD but for it’s waaaaay too short running time the animation is stunning.

12. Tuan Jim 11/09/2007 @ 4:24pm

    Well I did finally make it on - the trailer was excellent as stated—naturally the DVD is NOT available to order for US residents.  How convenient.

13. Arch Stanton 11/09/2007 @ 4:38pm

    Jim that sucks, the NFB has a real gem on their hands and should be made available to everyone.
    I wonder if the film has been sold to a U.S. distributor and will be available through them.

14. Kurt Halfyard 11/09/2007 @ 5:37pm

    Bare bones or not, I"m going to pick this thing up next time i’m near Richmond and John.  It has very high rewatch value.

15. Arch Stanton 11/10/2007 @ 4:26am

    The DVD is definitely worth getting. The film is so good I just wanted more.

16. Michael Guillen 11/10/2007 @ 11:58am

    And I totally lucked out because Chris and Maciek brought a batch of DVDs with them and handed me one at the end of our interview, signing it no less!  If any SF-based Twitch fans are attending today’s screening of Madame Tutli-Putli at the SF International Animation Festival, they will have DVDs for sale at the screening.

17. Janzki 11/11/2007 @ 8:36am

    Damnit! I can’t buy it to due my un-Canadianness. :’(

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