In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

When this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Feature were announced, Flow’s director Gints Zilbalodis posted a clip of himself reacting to the nominations. (Months later, he would go on ...

Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow,” the dialogue-free survival tale of a solitary cat’s journey that won both the Oscar and Golden Globe for best animated feature earlier this year, has been ...

From there, Flow gradually evolves into something resembling a human-free Noah’s Ark, with our courageously cute black protagonist on a boat coming across other animals (ranging from a lemur ...

For all his compulsion to elicit a public reaction from just about everything he did, Hugo never exhibited his drawings, barely allowing anyone beyond his family and circle of intimate friends to ...