{"id":34,"date":"2019-12-28T17:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:21:25","slug":"the-big-bad-fox-and-other-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/2019\/12\/28\/the-big-bad-fox-and-other-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 8, 2:00 pm \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor Hall 203 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\/ 2018 \/ Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert \/ 83 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/csagan\/\">Claire Sagan<\/a> (Political Science, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Respondent:<\/strong> Pierre-Louis Philipponnat (French and Francophone Studies, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sphYvAVkOyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from an acclaimed series of comic books written and illustrated by co-director Benjamin Renner, <em>The Big Bad Fox and Other<\/em>\u00a0<em>Tales<\/em> is a delightful animated film, charmingly old-fashioned in its\u00a0graphics but sly and witty in its contents. Consisting of three stories\u00a0featuring a recurring cast of hapless farm animals, the film is presented as a theatrical revue, with the \u201cbig bad\u201d fox (who is in fact anything\u00a0but) appearing on a stage before each segment to introduce the\u00a0action. The first story features the adventures of a rabbit, a pig, and a\u00a0duck who take over for the stork when she gets sick and try to bring a\u00a0human baby to its parents. This is followed by the story of the fearful\u00a0fox who is so bad at being a predator that he winds up protecting three\u00a0chickadees from a wolf. The final story finds the rabbit and the duck\u00a0attempting to deliver presents on Christmas Eve after they destroy a\u00a0plastic Santa Claus and become convinced they\u2019ve killed the real one.\u00a0Combining an infectious warmth and a surprising slapstick sensibility,\u00a0<em>The Big Bad Fox<\/em> is a treat for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women\u2019s Studies Program, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 8, 2020<br \/>\nScreening: 2.00 pm<br \/>\nClaire Sagan (Vassar)<br \/>\nPierre-Louis Philipponnat (Vassar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}