da: The New York Times OF all the qualities that make an artist great, or even good, simple curiosity must be the most underrated. In the late 1950\’s, when the young Louis Malle was beginning his filmmaking career, his restless, searching temperament served him well at first: at 23 he was a co-director (with Jacques-Yves [...]

da: The New York Times Nowadays, when we think of feature-length animation, our thoughts turn immediately to \”Shrek\” and Pixar (or less fondly, to \”Robots\” and \”Madagascar\”). The animated world, we\’ve learned, is round – created in three dimensions by teams of computer wizards and enlivened by noisy, knowing references to American pop culture, past [...]