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  Zeta Minor DVD Review - Harvie Krumpet
Harvie Krumpet tells the life story of a Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, a boy born in Poland in 1922.
Harvie Krumpet is beautifully narrated by Geoffrey Rush, as if it were a story he was telling to a child at bedtime.
Harvie Krumpet is an enormous step up in terms of production quality (particularly the sound, which is quite poor on the shorts).
www.zetaminor.com /dvd/dvdreviews/harvie_krumpet.htm   (1016 words)

  
  Harvie Krumpet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harvie Krumpet is an Australian claymation, made in St Kilda, Melbourne by Adam Elliot (Melodrama Pictures).
In one of the pivotal episodes of his life Harvie sits in the park next to the statue of Horace while he hears the instructional Carpe diem what leads to many changes in hero's life including embracing the naturist ways and embarking on daring rescue missions for animal rights.
The naïve simplicity of Harvie is an extended metaphor for all that youth values in life - a clear sense of values and strength of family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvie_Krumpet   (287 words)

  
 PIXELSURGEON | Reviews | Movies | Harvie Krumpet
Narrated by Geoffrey Rush, Harvie's life is told in a series of bittersweet episodes, punctuated by "Fakts" that he has learned along the way (such as "The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops moving when the music does") which he notes in a little book he keeps tied around his neck.
Harvie has a tragic life, full of death, illness and misfortune (losing a testicle and suffering from Alzheimer's), but keeps an optimistic, simple outlook on life, even when he gets a metal plate in his head which, thanks to a lightening strike, becomes magnetised, attracting nearby metal objects.
The new DVD release of Harvie Krumpet also comes with some of Elliot's earlier claymation short films: Uncle (1996), Cousin (1998) and Brother (1999) which deliver a similar outlook on life: funny, surreal and dark, with obsessive characters leading pointless existences dotted with tragedy and death.
www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=683   (400 words)

  
 HMV.co.uk: DVD: Harvie Krumpet (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harvie Krumpet is the biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck.
Harvie Krumpet is the biography of an ordinary man. Brought up in a Polish forest with his father, (a lumberjack), and mother, (suffering from lead poison), we observe a person seemingly cursed with bad luck.
Born with Tourette's Syndrome, Harvie is marginalised from the rest of village and gets used to having stones thrown at him as a child.
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 DVD Talk Review: Harvie Krumpet
The short film Harvie Krumpet is lodged firmly on the "peculiar" end of the spectrum; it's humorous in a very off-beat way, coming from the fact that it looks at the world from a rather odd perspective.
Harvie spends most of the film looking rather befuddled, but that's not a limitation of his animation; he's just a befuddled kind of guy, and when the story calls for it, his clay face shows other emotions.
The (mis)adventures of the titular Harvie are oddly compelling, and surprisingly memorable.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=12767   (734 words)

  
 Harvie Krumpet DVD Review - www.impulsegamer.com -
Harvie Krumpet is a story of a man who from the time he was born was cursed with a lifetimes worth of bad lack.
Harvie’s life consists of losing his loved ones, being struck with not only illness but also a bolt of lightning, and then to top it all off he has a testicle removed.
Although harvie’s life seems to be a never-ending battle of misfortune, he manages to seize the day and enjoy everything the world and chance throws at him.
www.impulsegamer.com /igversion01/dvd/dvdharviekrumpet.htm   (424 words)

  
 Harvie Krumpet - Review
Harvie's illiterate mother withdraws him from school after he is bullied, and instead teaches him the 'fakts' of life in her own peculiar way.
When Harvie is declared sterile, the couple adopt a thalidomide baby, Ruby, and Harvie devotes himself to being a full-time father until Ruby moves to New York to become a successful disabled rights lawyer.
Harvie is last seen as naked as the day he was born - and it is left for the viewer to decide whether, in his long journey through life, Harvie has travelled far and achieved miracles, or just gone round in circles getting nowhere.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1267   (603 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Harvie Krumpet
Harvie Krumpet is an Australian claymation, made in St Kilda, Melbourne by Adam Elliot (Melodrama Pictures).
In one of the pivotal episodes of his life Harvie sits in the park next to the statue of Horace while he hears the instructional Carpe diem what leads to many changes in hero's life including embracing the naturist ways and embarking on daring rescue missions for animal rights.
The naïve simplicity of Harvie is an extended metaphor for all that youth values in life - a clear sense of values and strength of family.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Harvie_Krumpet   (375 words)

  
 Sleepy Brain: Biomorphic Horror » Adam Elliot: Urban Eccentric   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harvie Krumpet is the peak of this richly observed body of work, a unified aesthetic that elevates ordinary characters over extraordinary situations.
Harvie Krumpet is the story of a Polish immigrant cursed with the worst bad luck.
Harvie Krumpet took a lot longer to write than anything else I’d done, because there was so much I wanted to tell about this character.
www.sleepybrain.net /adam-elliot   (3509 words)

  
 DVD Times - Harvie Krumpet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In his commentary Elliot describes these earlier works as a warm-up for Harvie Krumpet and whilst they have ostensible similarities to this newer piece, we do now see him moving away from his own experiences and into wholly fictional territory (though tiny biographical details do sneak under the radar as is often the case).
Given this lack of a personal edge Harvie Krumpet may not be able to elicit as profound a response as either Cousin or Brother, but its a highly impressive and hugely entertaining, not to mention quite touching, piece nonetheless.
As his Harvie Krumpet talk track is largely technical and reveals the various materials employed in its production, the commentaries for the trilogy are especially welcome as they reveal the personal side to his filmmaking.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=56747   (1074 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Harvie Krumpet
Harvie, his gray Claymated creation, an Eastern European refugee who becomes a chain-smoking Aussie everyman, is also a beauty.
The darkly witty Harvie Krumpet ended up grabbing the goldI guess some voters actually saw the movies this yearthough in many cases, the safe, obvious choices won, with anyone who squealed look-at-me-I'm-acting nabbing a pity prize.
Elliot, Doherty, Harvie Krumpet producer Melanie Coombs and their posse of seven other Australians were tonight planning to hit the Hollywood Oscar parties after the ceremony...
news.surfwax.com /movies/files/Harvie_Krumpet_movies.html   (1302 words)

  
 HARVIE KRUMPET - Adam Eliot DVD - Animation Show Forums
"Harvie Krumpet, a claymation film by Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot, is all about the life of Polish immigrant with Torrett's syndrome who moves to Spotswood, a inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
Though Harvie's life has perks (he is an avid nudist, an animal activist and vegetarian, and has an adopted daughter he loves), these things are only mentioned in passing.
Harvie doesn't strive through these bad things, he goes mad and ends up in a nursing home, alone, and with no visits from his daughter.
www.animationshow.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1324&view=old   (780 words)

  
 Print Article: Harvie Krumpet
And yet Harvie is the subject of Harvie Krumpet, one of two shorts paired for a cinematic release.
Like Harvie Krumpet, Roy Hollsdotter is an unlikely protagonist, in the second of the two shorts, Roy Hollsdotter Live.
As in Harvie Krumpet, the inherent sadness is offset by flashes of hilarity and wit, as Saville captures a moody, mainly nocturnal Melbourne that is beautiful and bittersweet.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/18/1077072701488.html   (458 words)

  
 Oscar Winner Elliot Talks Krumpet | Animation Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Now that Elliot and his pal Harvie are Oscar winners, we thought we'd revisit that interview for those of you who didn't catch it the first time.
The 23-minute short Harvie Krumpet was a hit with the press, the judges and the audience at the Annecy Int'l Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France.
Melanie Coombs: Harvie Krumpet was financed by the Australian Film Commission (the federal film development agency), SBS Independent (the commissioning arm of one of Australia's two public broadcasters) and Film Victoria, a state based government film funding body.
www.animationmagazine.net /article.php?article_id=1289   (1161 words)

  
 DVD Empire - Item - Harvie Krumpet / DVD-Video
But nobody that saw HARVIE KRUMPET during its brief run in Australia was surprised, because by the time creator Adam Elliot took the stage, he had already swept almost every short award with his small little film about the underachiever in all of us.
Harvie was an unlucky man, born in Poland in 1922 to a mother who talked to inanimate objects and a father who had to work three lumberjack jobs.
Narrated by Geoffrey Rush, HARVIE KRUMPET is a curious piece that straddles the line between tragedy and comedy, but if there was ever a lesson learned from the theater, it’s that there is very little difference between the two, and Writer/Director/Animator Adam Elliot proves that with every second in this fast paced short film.
www.dvdempire.com /exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=621716&userid=&tab=2&anchor=1   (681 words)

  
 XTRAMSN: Film Festival: Harvie Krumpet
Born with Tourettes syndrome, orphaned as a child and then uprooted from Poland by advancing Germans before he's 20, Harvie's life continues as a long and seemingly unrelenting episode of bad luck and tragedy.
That it remains such a warm and thoughtful film is testament both to Elliot's sympathetic animation and the restrained hush of Rush's voiceover which almost lends it the air of a fairy tale.
Born 'upside down and back to front', Harvie's life is a dreadful jumble, constantly battered by a malign fate.
xtramsn.co.nz /news/0,,12078-3502068-52_12252_true,00.html   (189 words)

  
 Animation World Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harvie Krumpet tells the saga of a man with Tourette's Syndrome.
Though the whimsy sometimes feels a bit forced, and the film is not without its moments of cloying humanism, Harvie Krumpet is admirable for its straightforward and humorous treatment of a number of dicey subjects, and its successful blend of humor, pathos, and the grotesque is a substantial achievement.
Harvie Krumpet was shot in sequence on Super 16mm with a converted Bolex over 15 months and was finished to 35mm in May 2003.
mag.awn.com /index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1789&page=3.   (791 words)

  
 Harvie Krumpet - Moviefone
Synopsis: We all have a stroke of bad luck from time to time, but Harvie Krumpet seems to be a special case.
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 DVD.net : Harvie Krumpet - DVD Review
But yet, in everything, Harvie can remain positive because in all the negativity he absorbs, he manages to find the kernel of the positive.
So Harvie isn’t a loser by any means because he figures out stuff most of us never even consider and that makes him a winner.
Harvie is all at once a sad film, a bleak film, but also an uplifting and warm film with a heart (no doubt full of holes or murmurs).
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3865   (1243 words)

  
 Harvie Krumpet (UK - DVD R2) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
Christened Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, the young Polish boy, Harvey, is born into a working-class family with a lumberjack father and mine-working mother, obsessed with counting her fingers and having conversations with people who weren’t there.
Harvey Krumpet is a very unusual and intriguing little story that is surprisingly sombre and consistently amusing.
The final part of the clay-mation ‘trilogy’ is brother, and is the longest and closest in theme to Harvie Krumpet itself.
www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/harvie-krumpet.html   (1405 words)

  
 PDGV : News and events: Harvie Krumpet - Local Animation Wins At Annecy
HARVIE KRUMPET the new 23 minute animation film by award winning writer/animator Adam Elliot (Brother, Uncle) has taken the Annecy International Animation Festival by storm.
At the Palmars du 27th Festival du d'animation award ceremony held on Saturday 7th June, HARVIE KRUMPET was awarded the "Prix FIPRESC" Press Award, the "Prix du public" Audience Award AND the "Prix spcial du jury" which is one of only two awards in the short film category.
HARVIE KRUMPET, which had its international premiere at Annecy, was produced by Melodrama Pictures with the support of SBS Independent, Film Victoria and The Australian Film Commission.
www.pdgv.com.au /news/2003-06-25_01.html   (405 words)

  
 harvie krumpet - review at videovista
Harvie Krumpet is the title character in this excellent claymation animation from Adam Elliot, an Australian whose work I had been unfamiliar with, but as this DVD contains his other short films it's an excellent opportunity to get acquainted.
Harvie shares a room with Hamish McGrumble, a man who "looked like something off a tin of shortbread and had nostril hair that looked like he was housing a family of spiders.
Deservedly the winner of many awards, Harvie Krumpet is a character that will live in your imaginations for years to come.
www.videovista.net /reviews/may05/harviek.html   (404 words)

  
 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Harvie is retarded, and eventually fills a notebook (which he keeps hanging around his neck like a pendant) with the "Fakts" of life he's discovered.
Harvie's life story is a woeful tale of lead-poisoned mine workers, thalidomide babies and the wacky antics of oh-so-funny Alzheimer's patients.
Mildly humorous (and also mildly offensive at times), "Harvie Krumpet" is narrated by Geoffrey Rush (who won his own Oscar for his performance as another retarded protagonist in the 1996 film Shine).
www.scifidimensions.com /Apr04/oscaranimation.htm   (832 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Harvie Krumpet: DVD: Geoffrey Rush,Julie Forsyth,Kamahl,John Flaus,Adam Elliot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Plot Synopsis: The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck.
Harvie Krumpet is a film that lives forward and is quiet, funny, heartbreaking, exhilarating and all from minimal movement and maximum writing.
Geoffrey Rush as Narrator, Julie Forsyth, Kamahl as Statue of Cicero, John Flaus as Harvie, Geoffrey Rush as Narrator, Julie Forsyth, Kamahl as Statue of Cicero, John Flaus as Harvie...
www.amazon.com /Harvie-Krumpet-Geoffrey-Rush/dp/B0002IQLU8   (1206 words)

  
 Buy Harvie Krumpet on DVD @ Gameplanet Store NZ
Harvie won the hearts of critics, audiences and the jury at Annecy Animation Festival, with the film scooping three awards, including the "Prix FIPRESC" Press Award, the "Prix du public" Audience Award and the "Prix spécial du jury" which is one of only two awards in the short film category.
Harvie also recently won Best Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival,the Leeds International Film Festival short animation Louis Le Prince Prize 2003 and the Valladolid International Film Festival Spain, Special Jury Prize 2003.
Write your own review of Harvie Krumpet and share your opinion with other shoppers.
www.gpstore.co.nz /DVDs/1463400.html   (343 words)

  
 Film Victoria - Media Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Film Victoria is pleased to congratulate celebrated Victorian filmmaker Adam Elliot, and producer Melanie Coombes on their stunning win today of the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) for their 22-minute clay-animation film HARVIE KRUMPET.
Produced in Melbourne by Melodrama Pictures, with assistance from Film Victoria, the Australian Film Commission and SBS Independent, HARVIE KRUMPET is a poignant tale about an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck.
HARVIE KRUMPET can be seen on SBS on Monday 8 March at 9.00pm.
www.film.vic.gov.au /news/Media/media_Krumpet.shtml   (221 words)

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