The 80-minute fable begins with rapturous 2-D images of waves recalling Japanese woodblock prints. The way the dark swells form and rise and combat each other is hypnotic, visually pleasing even as ...

We’re born; life washes us up on various shores; we build our sand castles and navigate the years; we die. From this four-part miniseries we call human existence, the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de ...

The Red Turtle Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. Rated PG. Opens Friday at Century Suncoast. Not an intelligible word is spoken in The Red Turtle, one of the five films up for Best Animated Feature at ...

Dutch-British Dudok de Wit’s film is an international affair, co-financed by studios out of Japan, Belgium and France. Perhaps born from that kind of multilingual pedigree, The Red Turtle carries a ...

An image from director Michael Dudok de Wit's animated fable 'The Red Turtle,' one of five films nominated for the Oscar for best animated feature in 2017. (Sony Pictures Classics) Though it is among ...

While the most famous wildlife in Austin is undoubtedly the colony of bats living under the Congress Avenue Bridge, paddling below that bridge is another conspicuous animal that deserves more ...

Watch a film clip from ‘The Red Turtle,’ directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Should you see “The Red Turtle”? Yes, definitely if you’re willing to take in the hypnotic ...

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Hawksbill turtles are due for a status assessment on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. One of the largest threats to global hawksbill recovery is the continued illegal tortoiseshell trade in ...