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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...

The first Michel Gondry film that has not given me a headache in a very long time, 2010’s “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” is a return for Gondry to his roots in music videos, many… ...

French filmmaker and artist Michel Gondry has been announced as a guest of honor at this year’s edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, running from June 8 to 14, 2025.