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And as with so many of Hertzfeldt's movies, if you see it somewhere other than on your laptop, you might be struck by its sound design: Hertzfeldt likes to complement the mostly blank pages of his visuals with lush, atmospheric sound that is almost their exact opposite. In It's Such a Beautiful Day he makes use of sounds sped-up, slowed-down, played backwards, and panned from channel to channel, arriving at a surreal soundscape akin to what David Lynch achieved in Eraserhead. Other than festival appearances and Hertzfeldt's in-person theatrical tour, It's Such a Beautiful Day was only given a brief, limited theatrical release. (It did not qualify for the Oscars. ) But you can watch the first chapter of It's Such a Beautiful Day above, and you can buy the DVD on Hertzfeldt's website. The first chapter doesn't convey the full scope of the movie—it gets more and more sophisticated as it goes along—but don't be surprised if, just in these first few minutes, you start to really care about that stick figure
2 nominations. See more awards » Learn more More Like This Animation | Short Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8. 6 / 10 X Don Hertzfeldt closes his trilogy as Bill struggles to piece together his shattering psyche. Director: Don Hertzfeldt Stars: Sara Cushman, Comedy 8. 2 / 10 Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery, in this second chapter to "Everything Will Be OK". 8. 1 / 10 A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof. A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future. Julia Pott, Winona Mae, Sara Cushman 7. 9 / 10 A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity. Robert May, Jennifer Nyholm, 7. 2 / 10 A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight... but... 7. 3 / 10 The evolution of humanity, through countless eons. Murwarid Abdiani, Jaden Alexander, Lance Anderson Emily is visited by a backup clone of herself from the even-more distant future, as they must venture into each other's psyches in order to restore the clone's deteriorating mind.
The film is unsettling in that Bill's condition may await us all, through Alzheimer's or whatever. Hertzfeldt's ending is upbeat, in a New Age-y way. Bill deserved as much.
Movie Review Credit... Bitter Films It's Such a Beautiful Day NYT Critic's Pick Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Not Rated 1h 2m Considering that he's a stick figure, Bill, the main character in "It's Such a Beautiful Day, " sure does have a complex internal life. And this animated film by Don Hertzfeldt does an amazing job of making you feel it, in all its sadness, terror and transcendence. The film, which combines a trilogy of shorter works into a feature-length piece, is done in a deliberately primitive style that makes the artwork in shows like "The Simpsons" seem refined. But Mr. Hertzfeldt proves that pizazz isn't everything. Enriching his bare-bones drawings with a few well-deployed visual tricks, he tells the story of an Everyman who at first seems merely Thurberesque. "Bill sat down and read a celebrity interview, " the narrator relates in a typical moment. "Then he watched the ants crawl around in his sink. " But we come to realize that Bill has undefined memory problems and disconnected-from-reality issues: "The guy next to him at the bus stop had the head of a cow. "
Brow Beat This is Bill, the star of It's Such a Beautiful Day. © 2012 Don Hertzfeldt Last week the National Board of Review chose the fun but forgettable Wreck-It Ralph as the year's best animated film, and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards chose Tim Burton's gorgeously rendered Frankenweenie. Over the weekend, Boston and Los Angeles also went for Frankenweenie, and between now and Oscar time, we may see some love for Studio Ghibli's The Secret World of Arrietty, Laika's ParaNorman, and Brave, the latest but not greatest from Pixar. But the best animated film of the year is about a stick figure named Bill. Bill is the star of It's Such a Beautiful Day, the latest from independent animator Don Hertzfeldt. Hertzfeldt is known for making sick, hilarious shorts films about endless dental procedures and balloons that turn on toddlers. As those descriptions suggest, his earlier shorts, which might be described as Looney Tunes directed by Franz Kafka, aren't for everyone. Ironically, this was more or less the point of his 2000 short Rejected, and yet it still won over enough members of the Academy to get nominated for an Oscar.
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But from the opening moments of It's Such a Beautiful Day, which is a feature Hertzfeldt completed in the three parts over the course of five years, it's clear that Hertzfeldt is after something different. The movie's first image is not animated but live-action, and the opening notes of the soundtrack are the opening harp strings and flutes of The Moldau, a symphonic poem you might recognize from Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. This isn't the last time the movie will use live-action footage or grand symphonic works: Another one of the movie's recurring motifs is the Vorspiel, from Wagner's Das Rheingold, which happens to be another favorite of Malick's. These musical cues may be partly tongue-in-cheek—Hertzfeldt hasn't lost his sense of the absurd—but they also suggest the grandeur of Hertzfeldt's ambitions. Bill's only distinguishing visual feature is his top hat—this is how you can tell him from the other stick figures—but you won't soon forget him. Most of It's Such a Beautiful Day takes place in Bill's mind, as it slowly falls apart.
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