Today is Rex Manning Day! No, wait! It’s better than Rex Manning Day; today is Coraline Jones Day!
Yes, folks, we here in Portland are blessed with the occasion of the Coralinepremiere at the Arlene Schnitzer Hall, officially kicking off the 32nd Portland International Film Festival in high Hollywood Fashion!
Coraline was created at the Laika Studios in Hillsboro and directed by Henry Selick, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. It’s also the first stop-motion movie to be conceived and filmed in 3-D. It boasts hand-knit sweaters for the puppets that star in this movie, hundreds (thousands??) of stop-animation puppets to act and star in it, and miniature sets that comprise the world of the stop-motion Coraline. If you haven’t seen the videos about the making of Coraline on the Coraline youtube page or even on coraline.com, you’re missing out on some amazing art that has been lovingly crafted to make this film in many different forms.
There are lots of amazing little things to see, trust me… I’ve been subjecting my friends with everything I can find on Coraline and the creation of the movie for months now. Subsequently, I’ve gotten more and more excited with every new thing that comes out.
I’m huge Neil Gaiman fan. HUGE! I would say he is arguably one of the most important and influential writers of our time with his work in comics and young adult fiction. The work he has done in just these 2 fields alone, not to mention his screenplays and fiction novels, have helped push the envelope of what we think of when we think “comics” or “YA fiction.”
To see Gaiman’s Coralinecome to life through the vision of Henry Selick, and to see it done so lovingly and so artistically here in Portland, is very inspiring! I’ve always argued that Portland is a can-do, creative city that takes a very “anything is possible” approach to the things created here. It’s only fitting that the Coraline premiere will be held here with all the pomp and circumstance of any big Hollywood premiere.
Thanks to my very good friend Scott Daly (who RULES as a friend and Dad) from filmfeverradio.com, I will be able to see this stop-animation 3-D wonder tonight at the Premiere! I’m already excited after reading the review on Geek In The City and doubly so because it just looks so amazing! I can’t even sit still!
Well, scoot over Rex Manning Day! It’s time for Coraline Jones Day, and I’m ALL over it!
Coraline opens tomorrow, February 6th, Nationwide.
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