- Panique au Village
(A Town Called Panic) - with short film WANDERING STAR
- Saturday, April 17, 2010
- 12 noon
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10 General Admission
- $8 Students/Seniors
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“Absolutely brilliant! Something truly special! Imaginative visuals that are paraded non-stop before the viewer’s dazzled eyes”
Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter
“Hilarious! Brilliantly imaginative and definitely one of my favorite films of the year.”
Christopher Campbell, MTV.com
“Pure spectacle! Transcendent in its ability to deliver an overwhelming sense of wonder. It’s childish, crazy and plotless, but those are all great things that create something endlessly surprising and intensely fun.”
Cole Abaius, FilmSchoolRejects.com
Watch the Trailer
Synopsis
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit’s Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events.
Directed by Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
France, 2009, 35mm
75 minutes
http://www.atowncalledpanic.com/
Companion Short Film
- WANDERING STAR
- Anthony Hays (USA)
- 8 minutes
- A cruel and negligent father runs out of gas while driving along a desolate road. The son is left in the car as the father walks to retrieve gas. Triggered by his View-master toy, the boy’s imagination takes off like a rocket ship.
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1578842/