8.4 /10 1 Votes
91% Rotten Tomatoes Produced by Alexandre Poncet Edited by Gilles Penso Screenplay Gilles Penso Producer Alexandre Poncet | 7.5/10 IMDb Directed by Gilles Penso Music by Alexandre Poncet Director Gilles Penso Music director Alexandre Poncet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Production
companies Frenetic Arts
The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation Release date November 27, 2011 (2011-11-27) (Paris) Initial release 9 November 2012 (United Kingdom) Cast Ray Harryhausen, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Tim Burton Similar Steven Spielberg movies, Visual arts movies, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan is a 2011 documentary film on the life and work of Ray Harryhausen.
Contents
Production
The film was made over a 10-year period and features interviews and tributes from filmmakers who were inspired by his work.
Interviewees
The animators, directors, actors and special effects artists interviewed for the film were:
Release
The film was shown at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival on November 27, 2011.
Reception
The Observer described the documentary as a "a riveting film by a French movie historian" and that it was "A continual delight." The Financial Times noted that specific scenes in the film, such as the tours of Harryhausen's workshop, and noted that "Perhaps the most fascinating point made in the film is that it was Harryhausen who invented the way we all think dinosaurs moved. Those gestures - agreed on now even by palaeontologists - actually first came from him." Michael Brooke writing for Sight and Sound described the film as "clearly a labour of love by all concerned" and an "*immensely engaging portrait of [Harryhausen]." He concluded that the film was "undoubtedly a hagiography, but noted the terms linguistic origin meaning "a saint's biography"."
