Cool.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Friday, 4 November 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/the-book-of-the-dead/
I watched Kawamoto's Book Of The Dead. I found it very dry and difficult to pay attention and follow, but I could enjoy things about it a bit. Stop motion puppets.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
that looks cool, I always liked the puppet storybooks:
http://modernkiddo.com/vintage-bookshelf-rocketship-to-the-moon/
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
I recently came across The Mill At Calder's End and fell in love with Kevin McTurk's work, even if it is a bit (deliberately?) clunky in places. The Narrative Of Victor Karloch is great as well.
http://www.fanboy-confidential.com/articles/9815/
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
That looks awesome thankyou, I just watched some clips and I must get the disc collection.http://www.thespiritcabinet.com/#thespiritcabinethttps://vimeo.com/user3963984/videos
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
Got the dvd collection The Exquisite Short Films Of Kihachiro Kawamoto. It's 7 films from 1968 to 1979. I don't know why they stopped there, Kimstim also released his last film Book Of The Dead but they could have filled another disc with everything inbetween. I'm not that eager to see the rest but it would have been nice.
I didn't like some of the earliest ones much. Even though he's best known for the stop motion puppets I liked the two films with drawn and painted cutouts most. Much like when I was watching Book Of Dead, I gave up trying to understand early and just zoned out, but I found it more pleasant with these. One short is based on a Kobo Abe story and another has Toru Takemitsu music.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
New Masaaki Yuasa joint coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5W9eHDxBDc
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Spent most of Kubo and the Two Strings thinking it was an above-average CGI movie with a nice japanese setting. then watched the extras and it was all stop motion, including an 18ft skeleton...
(should've remembered having my mind blown by the wardrobe dept on Coraline knitting all her jumpers and gloves)
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Just got around to seeing The Boy and the Beast. Ghibli-level imo
― Nhex, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that one is great. One of those films that are about five times better than it needed to be. Towards the end I was wondering if they were setting up a franchise, as more and more stuff started happening, but they tied it all together really well.
Mamoru Hosada in general is really good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
i really liked The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, should really catch up on his other films
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
Those two are probably his best, but check out his other ones as well. I really like the way he combines worlds and art styles.
Your Name is getting Danish premiere this May. As it's on it's way to become the most succesful animated film ever, it's probably as mainstream as it comes, but I'm still really excited!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
So Your Name is pretty much a game-changer. I could see it be almost as important as Spirited Away in widening the idea of what anime can be in the west. It's not quite that good, but what is?
It was kinda funny to me that the press material called Shinkai the new Mamoru Hosada. Well, he will probably overshadow Hosada, at least in the west, though they are quite alike, and the film is a lot like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a way.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 March 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
I had much higher expectations for Kubo & The Two Strings. It's no Book Of Life, I'll tell ya.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
Got the Spirit Cabinet disc with The Mill At Calder's End and The Narrative Of Victor Karloch. The stories aren't very interesting, they're fairly nice exercises in Victorian ghost horror style. The puppets are very impressive, there's a little bit of unnecessary computer facial animation. Barbara Steele, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd and some others lend their voices and likenesses for the puppets. I look forward to what this team does in the future.
I watched the second disc of Quay Brothers - Inner Sanctums (I've seen everything on the first disc on the earlier compilation). I'm less fond of the museum documentaries, which can be a little too slow but their regular puppet stories are still some of the most beautiful and mysterious films being made, some of them are literary adaptations. The short Christopher Nolan documentary is really just the Quay Brothers giving a tour of their amazing storage room.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 12 March 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
re mamoru hosada - summer wars is worth watching. it's a little goofy at times but is visually great and overall worth checking out.
― art, Sunday, 12 March 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/04/04/women-in-british-animation-petra-freeman/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
enjoyed the Red Turtle. Very beautiful, very slow-moving, but charming and thought-provoking.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link
Kevin McTurk's series of samurai horror https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935772123/the-haunted-swordsman-a-ghost-story-puppet-film?ref=creator_nav
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Ferenc Cako's sand animation is really good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 October 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/QAJGRGYxc98
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 30 November 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
Jumping Joan by Petra Freemanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooxsCp_52I
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 April 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
Forgot about this thread. A few I've been enjoying recently:
Not at all new, but I suspect that The Log Driver's Waltz, a National Film Board clip set to a delightful Kate & Anna McGarrigle rendition of a classic Canadian folk song, isn't that well known outside of Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8
More recently (and still in Canada), I really liked Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver, an admittedly Disney-esque story made as a collaboration with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, who have performed the score live as an accompaniment to the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t=2s
I also thought the recent Best Animated Short nominee Revolting Rhymes (based on Roald Dahl) was pretty great. Of course, it lost the Oscar to that stupid Kobe Bryant thing.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 April 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Let me try Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver again
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 April 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
UGH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 April 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
anyway, its on YouTube
Anyone have opinions on the Thunderbean Animation DVD/blu-ray label? They're doing a lot of really early animation. Apparently some of their stuff is, like, DVD-R w/ no cover art though, and fuck that.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Recently watched a 1990 version of Quest For Olwen, Russian animated for welsh television. Very nice style.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QB6EsHAih8
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
This by Ideya Garanina is the most beautiful animation I've ever seen and it wasn't available when I started this thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzQSxFMyYohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fm8Xn_GNHQ
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, April 9, 2018 5:05 PM (one week ago)
I would say that they do have high quality but they work very slow. I wouldn't mind owning a blu-ray of Flip the Frog restored but that project has had no updates in forever.
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 16 April 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
Cool, will check some of their stuff out. My backlog of stuff to watch means all I have is time, anyway.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link
Saw a couple films circa 1950 by Czech master Jiri Trnka today. This retro will tour after NYC, apparently.
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-puppet-master-the-complete-jiri-trnka/#films
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
I was just about to post Alison De Vere's The Black Dog, which I came across via Twitter this morning and was blown away by, only to see it upthread. Fantastic film. Been watching a lot of British animated shorts today, Channel 4 had a good thing going for a while there.
I really like this one too, despite the pretty dubious subject matter (and the very dubious Budd Hopkins).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UgJFZSRec
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
odd trailer for Tezuka's Cleopatra, Tomita soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4muZbgxsYalso see the trailer for Tezuka's 1001 Nights featuring a man pleasuring a woman by kick-grazing her bottom.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
The guy who went on to make Belladonna Of Sadness worked on these!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 June 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
Giordano Bruno by Vladimir Goncharovhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlWilS-D6w
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
'Mirai', the new Mamoru Hosada is really good. As in really, really good, probably his best yet. And that's high praise. A delight from beginning to end.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 6 October 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3yivaOcJA
whooooa
as vaporwavey adult swim goes....this goes hard
― imago, Friday, 9 November 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
that was great yeah
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Attn UK ilxors, BBC4 is doing a night of animation. It's Wallace & Gromit right now, but they promise more obscure stuff as the night goes on.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Watching it now. Morph, Len Lye, animal farm, Bob Godfrey... It's nice but it's a bit basic so far
― koogs, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
If you're going to do popular stuff and not include smallfilms or Gerry Anderson then I don't know what. Or focus on the tiny studios and skip the aardman.
The dozen or so films now on are done as individual programmes on my PVR and it's cutting them to bits because the schedule isn't precise enough.
― koogs, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Amazing trailer for A Casa Lobo/The Wolf Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gfk8e_WhM
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 December 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
So, I bought Zeman's 'Invention for Destruction' (that counts, right?), but now I'm worried it's just a renaming of his Jules Verne, which I think I have.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Sigh, yeah it is. Still a awesome film though.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
And my old copy was kind of vanilla.
Can we talk about anamolisa
― spacedaddy, Friday, 21 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
With me? No, I haven't seen it. Kind of want to, although I'm not a Kaufman fan.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOsdCr3pNEUn Homme Est Mort by Olivier Cossu of Les Armateurshttp://lesarmateurs-lesite.fr/en/projets/a-man-is-dead/
Sign up to see it here w/English subtitles: http://bit.ly/frenchlaborfilm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link