If you’ve been out the festival loop this past year, now’s your chance to see Chris Landreth’s Academy Award-winning animated short, Ryan. The CG film, which also took top kudos at SIGGRAPH and Annecy in 2004, is now available on home video, as is the new Ghostbusters Double Feature Gift Set, featuring Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II and episodes of the animated series.
Ryan employs an innovative computer animation style Landreth calls “psychological realism” to tell the story Oscar-nominated Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who produced some of the most influential animated films of the early 1970s and has since been found begging for spare change on the streets of Montreal. The film explores Larkin’s early works and asks how an artistic genius could follow such an unfortunate path. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, it was picked up by Rhino Home Video and is available now on DVD. Ryan: Special Edition features seven films, including Alter Egos, a documentary on Larkin and Landreth. The whole thng runs 94 minutes and retails for $19.95 at www.rhino.com.
Ghostbusters Double Feature Gift Set is a two-disc collection featuring the 1984 smash hit and its 1989 sequel, both with re-mastered video and sound. The live-action flicks come packaged with the episodes "Citizen Ghost" and "Partners in Slime," from the Saturday morning animated series, The Real Ghostbusters. In addition to the cartoon installments, bonus materials include three making-of featurettes, deleted scenes, photo galleries, multi-angle features, storyboards and a collectible scrapbook. There’s also commentary by Director Ivan Reitman, star Harold Ramis and producer Joe Medjuck. The Columbia Tristar Home Entertanments release lists for $19.94.
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