Refreshingly different precisely because its look is so profoundly retro, "Brendan and the Secret of Kells" harks back not ... for children whose parents are art historians specializing in pre ...

“The Secret ... shows up at Kells with a book he began illustrating on the island of Iona before the marauding Norsemen made him flee. Very much attracted to the making of art, Brendan overcomes ...

As advances in technology allow for ever more realism in animated features, the artists behind “The Secret ... with Irish art. A lot of Celtic design came from the Book of Kells, so we thought ...

What you get is “The Secret of Kells,” a 75-minute independent Irish ... animation which weaves together medieval Celtic art and unique, contemporary imagery. On a plot level, the stakes ...

Five years after its debut, the Oscar-nominated Irish feature “The Secret of Kells” finally has its own art-of book. Distributor GKIDS announced this morning that they have acquired North ...

Refreshingly different precisely because its look is so profoundly retro, "Brendan and the Secret of Kells" harks back not ... for children whose parents are art historians specializing in pre ...

Before watching The Secret Of Kells—the 2009 ... is obsessed with protecting the monastery of Kells with a huge wall, but Brendan finds other obsessions in art and creation.

If there’s a muse for the art of animation, she sure was busy last year ... shores (though it did screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Fest). The Secret of Kells, you probably know, ...

the film enters a dreamlike dimension in which the magic of Celtic mythology and the stunning aesthetic quality of the Book of Kells (which is reminiscent of mandala art) combine for the greatest ...

The critical consensus on Best Animated Feature-nominee The Secret of Kells goes something like this ... but he’s since dismissed art as a waste of time when literal barbarians are at the ...