Showing posts with label immigrant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrant. Show all posts

Monday, 24 May 2010

IMMIGRANTS (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"

22-28 June 2010






Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)


The Director, Gabor Csupo is a chairman and co-founder of Klasky Csupo Inc., the entertainment industry's leading independent animation company.



He was born in Budapest, Hungary, studied music for eight years and art for four, before starting his professional training in animation in Hungary's famous Pannonia Studios in 1971. In 1975 from the communist Hungary he's escaped to Austria, then without passport and any resources he's travelled to West Germany, then to Denmark, and then to Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1978 he's met and fell in love with Arlene Klasky, and American graphic designer. He's moved to Hollywood in 1979, where they've got married.

Csupo's first job was at the legendary Hanna Barbera Studios, where he worked as an animator.

In 1981, Klasky and Csupo formed their own animation company, Klasky Csupo Inc., in a spare room of their apartment. In 1983 they've moved to their real office, expanding into motion graphics and live-action production.

Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo in 2002

In 1988 Klasky Csupo was asked by director James L. Brooks to animate a cartoon strip, "The Simpsons". For its efforts, Klasky Csupo garnered worldwide recognition and Emmy Awards two years in a row.

Continuing to break a new ground, Csupo co-developed, produced and animated the "Rugrats" series, and in 1988 he's co-produced "The Rugrats Movie" and "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie".

Csupo himself has presided designing, supervising, animating commercials, company logos, TV stations, motion picture trailers, on-air network productions and industrial films.

As and expression of his long-life passion for music Csupo founded the record labels Tone Casulties and Casual Tonalities in 1994.

The Director's latest work is "The Bridge to Terabithia".

(Source: www.klaskycsupo.com)

The Immigrants, the fifth feature-length film from Klasky Csupo was released in 2008, and is about Joska, the Hungarian, and Vladislav, the Russian, who're oping for a better life by chasing the American Dream, tons of money and loads of women. They share an apartment in Los Angeles, and get into all sorts of troubles together, and throughout their adventures they learn the true meaning of friendship.


Tuesday, 18 May 2010

CLOSE TO LOVE (1999)

3rd Hungarian Film Showcase in London

"Somewhere in the World"

22-28 June 2010







Close to Love (1999)

Director: Andras Salamon

"Salamon's extensive experience with the medium of the documentary clearly assists him in his handling of Close to Love. Well versed in his principle themes by now, Salamon creates his characters with confidence and depth; he allows them to be the basis of the film rather some preordained number of car-chases, shoot-outs and love scenes that directors these days seem to think are absolutely necessary to their film. Ironically, Close to Love does contain a car-chase, a shoot-out and a love-scene but they are their because the characters, and not the director, demand them.

Close to Love is a modest film which has simple aims - to tell a story.
Since it was one of the few films that seemed prepared to do this, it is perhaps no surprise that the film was rewarded with a distinction for the best screenplay."

/Source:
by Andrew J Horton, 6 April 1999, Central Europe Review, Kinoeye, http://www.ce-review.org/kinoeye/kinoeye28old1.html/

Cast:
Ferenc Hujber, Tsuyu Shimizu, Nimrod Antal, János Gyuriska, Károly Gesztesi, Ervin Nagy, Erzsi Pásztor, András Ambrus, András Fekete, Sarolta Thuroczy


Ferenc Hujber and Tsuyu Shimizu in "Close to Love"



Plot: Karcsi seems to have it all: he fulfilled his dreams in the big city, he is a policeman as he always wanted to be, has a dog and found true love. Yet the fact that his girlfriend is a Chinese immigrant in Budapest means that there is still a lot their love has to conquer.