Its comfy title notwithstanding, the prodigious charms of My Dog Tulip are wholly other than those of a Disney-style boy-and-his-dog heartwarmer. For one thing, this goofily animated film is based on ...

"My Dog Tulip" is an adult cartoon where the attractions are a droll and very British commentary and stylish animation from the husband-and-wife team of Paul and Sandra Fierlinger. By Kirk Honeycutt, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OK, first off, anyone who shares his or her life with a dog, or has done so in the past, go see “My Dog Tulip.” Second off, anyone with a passion for ...

You don’t need to be the ultimate dog-lover to enjoy “My DogTulip,” but it helps if you want to know more than you knew beforeabout canines and their ways. Or more precisely, how we humansperceive ...

OK, first off, anyone who shares his or her life with a dog, or has done so in the past, go see “My Dog Tulip.” Second, anyone with a passion for animation, and an appreciation of how “cartooning” can ...

( The following review was first posted as part of our SLIFF coverage on November 12, 2010) Long, long ago in 1994 the release of an animated film using computer technology was a unique event. Since ...

The intensely personal, mutually possessive devotion between man and man’s best friend gets a thorough probing — often in the most literal sense — in the lovingly hand-crafted animated feature “My Dog ...

Animated drama. Directed by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger. Starring the voices of Christopher Plummer and Lynn Redgrave. (Not rated. 82 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Most films centered on animals tend ...

The adorably hand-animated “My Dog Tulip” is based on a fictionalized memoir by the English writer J. R. Ackerley. Opening Friday at the Enzian, the film features Christopher Plummer plummily ...

Most films centered on animals tend to anthropomorphize their stars, but My Dog Tulip does the opposite. Its human narrator works so devilishly hard to see life from a canine point of view, with a ...

Long before there was a dog whisperer, the British writer J.R. Ackerley (1896-1967) penned a memoir about the 15 years he shared with Tulip, a willful but loyal Alsatian (German shepherd). The ...