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Nick Paley (I) Nick Paley. Paley recently penned the screenplay for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) with its creators Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. His directing credits include "Broad City," "Inside Amy Schumer," and the Sundance short film "Andy and Zach." As an editor and producer, Paley has been nominated for two Emmys, won an ...
- Writer, Director, Editor
- Success at New York University, Sundance
- Incorporating The Short ‘Marcel’ Films
- Work with Amy Schumer, ‘Broad City’
- If You Go
Early signs are that taking a personal approach to a whimsical concept is working well. “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” was screened at film festivals over the past few months and has a 100% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the online film-review aggregator. The movie opens June 24 in New York and Los Angeles; Paley has arranged for an early (...
After premiering in 2010, the “Marcel” short films became huge hits online with their improvised cute-but-philosophical approach to the life of a diminutive, talkative footwear-clad exoskeleton. That success led to plans for a feature film, and Fleischer-Camp asked Paley to help with the script. The two had connected and become friends at a short-f...
Slate provides the voice for Marcel, and the filmmakers worked with her to improvise lines they would build the story around. That helped them achieve what they saw as a unique tone for a film, one with the loose feel of a documentary but the structured cohesion of stop-action animation. “We wanted to find a way to have a real contradiction in the ...
WHAT: “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 26 WHERE: Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington ADMISSION: Free, though tickets can be booked in advance. www.vtiff.org Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com. Follow Brent on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BrentHallenbeck
- Brent Hallenbeck
- Food & Entertainment Reporter
Jan 24, 2023 · The movie about the exploits of a talking, footwear-clad shell was co-written by Nick Paley, who grew up in Huntington and graduated from Mount Mansfield Union High School. The film is based on ...
- Brent Hallenbeck
- Food & Entertainment Reporter
Feb 2, 2023 · Screenwriter and editor Nick Paley is a Mount Mansfield Union High School graduate. He said the film is a documentary-style production that follows Marcel the Shell and his grandmother as they try ...
- Cat Viglienzoni
Jenny Slate, writer-editor Nick Paley, Dean Fleischer Camp and Isabella Rossellini. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is not, of course, a true documentary. And making a movie with stop-motion animation feel vérité is, as its director puts it, "Like oil and water." Stop motion, as an artform, requires extreme precision.
Jun 24, 2022 · Joining creative forces with co-writer Nick Paley, the team wrote a long treatment and started hosting recording sessions where Slate would give form to Marcel’s dialogue with spur of the moment ...
Feb 13, 2023 · By Hilton Dresden. February 13, 2023 1:30pm. Jenny Slate (far left) voices the title character in A24’s 'Marcel the Shell,' which she co-wrote with director Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley ...
