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Elvis Costello talks about his music and the second season of "Spectacle," his music talk show on the Sundance Channel.

COMEBACK KID: 'Coraline' is just one of four stop-motion features released in 2009, indicating the revival of a lo-fi format made possible by high-tech cameras and digital post-production equipment.

Henry Selick will receive the CAS Filmmaker Award at the 46th CAS Awards, set for Feb.

A few days ago I sat down with director Henry Selick for a very extensive interview.A While I spoke to him earlier this year before "Coraline" got released, with Focus Features trying to get "Coraline" nominated for Best Animated Feature Selick has been talking to journalists and I was lucky enough to land a spot.A While we touched on "Coraline", ...

Mixed-media adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book, from the Disney studio, and more specifically from Henry Selick of Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas .

She has disarmed gunmen on and off screen, survived alone on a desert island and helped a group of Gurkhas take on the state, but Joanna Lumley is even tougher than that a ' she's a Scot JOANNA LUMLEY is giving herself an instant facelift, pulling back her perfectly made-up complexion to show what she would look like if she had plastic surgery.

'BOGGIS and Bunce and Bean/ One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were none the less equally mean." Not quite Shakespeare but vintage Roald Dahl, the cleverest of contemporary children's writers and author of the witty, anthropomorphic adventure Fantastic Mr Fox, which has been transformed into an animated ...

Roald Dahl's children's books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence.

Travis Knight, President and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based animation studio LAIKA, Inc., has announced that director Henry Selick has departed the company following the expiration of his contract.

In an age when cartoons are built around pristine computer-generated images and packed with jokes, Henry Selick still makes animation the old fashioned way -- by hand, and scary.

Dahl wrote stories filled with cruelty, misanthropy and mischievous fun. But 20 years after his death, he is more popular than ever.

The DVD release of Coraline is as big an event as the theatrical release of Henry Selick's stop-motion masterpiece.

The DVD release of Coraline is as big an event as the theatrical release of Henry Selick's stop-motion masterpiece.

The intensely time-consuming art of stop motion animation comes to glorious life in CORALINE, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-selling children's novel.

Digital Home's top pick on Blu-ray this week is "Coraline", an animated stop-motion 3-D fantasy film based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novel of the same name.

I got the chance to speak with the man single-handedly keeping stop motion not only alive, but viable.

"Coraline" comes from the director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," considered to be one of Tim Burton's best.

Other big-budget studio movie genres may often seem overblown and underthought, but feature animation still seems to be in a kind of modern Golden Age.

DVD Release Date: July 21, 2009 Theatrical Release Date: February 6, 2009 Rating: PG Genre: Fantasy Run Time: 100 min Director: Henry Selick Voices of: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, John Hodgman, Keith David, Robert Bailey Jr., Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French Coraline poses an unfortunate conundrum.

Conflicted kids with much-too-busy-for-proper-parenting mothers in movies like Phoebe In Wonderland and Coraline, seem to be increasingly slipping into unhealthy fantasy worlds in search of ideal mommies.