Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan – review
The 92-year-old Harryhausen, the legendary American film-maker of movies about legends, became hooked on stop-motion animation when he saw King Kong at the age of 13. After a sort of apprenticeship to...
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The fourth in our New View film season is a loving tribute to the master of the creature feature, stop-motion effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. Available in the UK and Ireland onlyReading on mobile?...
View ArticleRay Harryhausen, stop-motion animation master, dies in London at 92
Special effects pioneer inspired film-makers including George Lucas and Peter Jackson with 'sublime and fantastic' creaturesStop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen died Tuesday in London at 92....
View ArticleRay Harryhausen obituary
Special effects master on fantasy films including Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the TitansIn 1933, the 13-year-old Ray Harryhausen saw King Kong at the cinema and was hooked – not only by Kong,...
View ArticleRay Harryhausen matched JMW Turner for special effects genius
Like the great painters, Harryhausen was a visionary who brought the old myths back to life for a contemporary audienceRay Harryhausen's cinematic masterpiece Jason and the Argonauts is so deeply...
View ArticleFilm animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen's career – in pictures
Ray Harryhausen, the man who pioneered the use of stop-motion special effects in Hollywood, has died at the age of 92, his family announced on Tuesday. In an era before CGI, Harryhausen used clay...
View ArticleHow Ray Harryhausen's animation has the edge on CGI | Brendon Connelly
The stop-motion pioneer who died on Tuesday brought life to his creations in a way CGI still strives to emulateI'm moving house at the moment and I've been giving away lots of books. Almost all of...
View ArticleDinosaurs on film – fun, fiction and failures
Dr Dave Hone talks the good, the bad and the ugly of dinosaurs on the silver screen and pays tribute to Ray HarryhausenWith the "furore" of the next Jurassic Park film and the vexed question of whether...
View ArticleThis week's new film events
Easter Film Hop & Midsummer Night Screen | The Invisible Lighthouse | Aho & Soldan | The Ray Harryhausen CollectionNo, there's nothing wrong with your calendar. This was supposed to happen at...
View ArticleThis week's new film events
Moving Stories | 70 x 70: The Sorcerers + Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore & Chris Petit | Ray Harryhausen | London Indian Film FestivalShould you let the kids slob out with a movie or make them do...
View ArticleDinosaurs in film - in pictures
Hollywood’s first big dinosaur movie, The Lost World, was released 90 years ago. Jurassic World has just hit the big screen. Two great reasons for us to pay homage to our favourite clay, rubber and...
View ArticleSci-fi teleports into the mainstream with Barbican exhibition
Summer 2017 show will include concept art and models from the films Godzilla, Stargate and Dark CityThe journey of science fiction from niche to mainstream popular culture is to be explored in a major...
View ArticleClash of the Titans to One Million Years BC: Ray Harryhausen movie posters –...
From roaring dinosaurs to clashing titans and flying saucers, the stop-motion genius made audiences gasp, shriek and doubt their eyes. Here are the best posters his groundbreaking movies...
View ArticleTitan of mythology movies left behind a treasure trove of ideas
Lost and rare material from master animator Ray Harryhausen could now inspire a new film epic years after his deathHe was the acclaimed film-maker who pioneered animation effects for masterpieces such...
View ArticlePalette cleansers: our photography, art and architecture picks for 2020
Warhol is revealed as a prophet, London goes down the rabbit hole and Don McCullin takes his masterworks to MerseysideContinue reading...
View ArticleRay Harryhausen's art raid: where the effects genius found his terrifying...
From his sword-swinging skeletons to a horn-headed cyclops, a new show reveals how the gruesome godfather of special effects plundered antiquity for ideas – and his own art collectionThe skeletons rise...
View ArticleCinema's finest dream-maker and sacks appeal in Ghana – the week in art
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s poetic visions come into focus as Ibrahim Mahama takes a suggestive view of the cocoa bean industry – all in your weekly dispatchRay HarryhausenThe fantastic...
View ArticleEye-popping $2m doodles and genius special effects – the week in art
A taster of Jean Dubuffet’s cartoon-like pictures are online, National Galleries of Scotland gives Ray Harryhausen a ‘virtual experience’ and the British Museum delivers a brief history of the world...
View ArticleRay Harryhausen’s killer skeletons and Georg Baselitz’s gnarled hands – the...
Restless LA artist Henry Taylor shows some edgy assemblages and the Gee’s Bend quilters show their haunting artwork – all in your weekly dispatchHenry TaylorIntimate, evocative paintings and...
View ArticleVolcano films – ranked!
Missing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever madeSteve Reeves seeks vengeance for his...
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