Posted by MichelleSparrow on 9/08/05 at 04:10 PM

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12:00 AM, 07-SEPTEMBER-05

Corpse Wows Venice

Tim Burton's stop-motion animated movie Corpse Bride won a thunderous reception from the press and critics at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 6 and will be showcased out of competition on Sept. 7, the Reuters news service reported.

"We feel so lucky, with computers and all taking over, to be able to do this beautiful, old-fashioned technique," Burton told the press, referring to the painstaking animation. "It's something about the old-fashioned quality of it. There's something very emotional about it. It is hard to put it into words, ... the idea of somebody moving a puppet frame by frame."

Corpse Bride took Burton 10 years to bring to the screen and is not in competition for the Golden Lion.

Burton's film will screen on the Lido on Wednesday, away from the main competition, the wire service reported. Corpse Bride opens in North America on Sept. 23.

Source: Scifi wire