Michel Gondry’s new film Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is a conversation with the cognitive pioneer Noam Chomsky, set to intricate, neon-bright drawings. He talks about linguistics and his next ...

Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big. ... Michel Gondry: I met him because I was spending time at MIT. I was into his political views and work.

An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky,” Michel Gondry’s free-roaming animated portrait of his discussions with the famed MIT linguist, the filmmaker makes it clear that the chief audience ...

MICHEL GONDRY: Well, it was crucial, because basically that’s how I heard about Chomsky. I mean, coming from France, he’s very much ignored in France from some ridiculous issues that they keep ...

Twice in 2010, director Michel Gondry met with Noam Chomsky for a series of conversations about the philosopher, linguist, and author’s childhood in Philadelphia and his theory of generative ...

Gondry conducted two extensive interviews with Chomsky in the latter’s MIT office in 2010, recording the whole thing on digital audio and filming a few snippets with an old-school Super-8 camera ...

Michel Gondry likes video stores. He is, after all, the director of the ultimate VHS sonnet, Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def re-create classics like Ghostbusters from plastic bags ...

Throughout, Gondry fancifully embroiders on Chomsky’s running commentary. Intellectual curiosity is personified as a homunculus toting a potted plant with question marks on its leaves, and ...

Berlin: Michel Gondry’s Noam Chomsky Doc Takes Panorama Slot. The festival's high-profile documentary section picks its final additions to a 16-strong lineup with 10 world debuts planned.

Review: Chomsky smartly animated in ‘Is the Man… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

Near the beginning of Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, filmmaker Michel Gondry admits to his interview subject, Noam Chomsky, that he’s a little nervous. Sitting down with Chomsky, who wouldn’t ...

Gondry can talk a mile a minute though given the right subject matter, and having these two creative minds in one setting with an animated backdrop bringing it to life sounds pretty damn cool.