Contenders Night 1: Coyote vs Acme
Thu 10/29 • 7:30PM PDT
Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Followed by a conversation with director Dave Green, voice actor Eric Bauza, and producer Chris DeFaria.
The midcentury modern aesthetic of Chuck Jones's streamlined Roadrunner cartoons (b. 1949) is fruitfully transported to a 21st century context of rampant legalism and corporate hegemony. Taking off from a clever 1990 New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier, director Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) executes the most satisfying blend of live action and animation since Robert Zemeckis’s 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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