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
I enjoyed that, thanks.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 8 February 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link
The Korean Film Council has uploaded a 1967 animated take on the classic Hong Gildong story to their YT account (on a sidenote: god, if every country was as good at taking care of its film legacy as South Korea...). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but there's some very good quality slapstick and action in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMY4NA7ONg4
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
Not really snobby enough for this thread, but Laika's Missing Link, which we saw yesterday, is tremendous.
― Stevie T, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Laika is always great
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
still can't believe some of the stuff laika managed to do in stop-motion in the underrated kubo and the two strings, so i'm psyched for the new one for sure
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
I haven't absolutely loved a Laika film yet, but I think if I were working on movies, that kind of stop-motion is what I'd love to do.
― jmm, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
Anomalisa is on film4 tonight. 2016 Oscar winning animation. Not seen it myself but...
― koogs, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
L'Animation Independante Japonaise volume 2 - First off, this cost about 45 pounds so I'll understand if you don't rush out to buy it. 8 short films, with French and English subtitles, DVD+Bluray, all region (I think).I paid so much because I've wanted to see the Keita Kurosaka films for years. His Midori-Ko is by far the longest film (55min), it's like a cross between Eraserhead and Little Otik with a bunch of other crazy stuff thrown in. It's about a vegetable seller girl who discovers a sentient vegetable, cares for it and protects it from neighbors including a fish woman, a frog, an old pervert and girls with fruit shaped heads. It's brilliant. Loved the wrestlers in particular.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwCd7SJaa8 His other film here is 3 minutes of a girl with a shapeshifting face.
Would have liked to buy all his films from his site but there wasn't enough info for me to order with confidence. But check out the pictures.https://www.midori-ko.com/
Airy Me by Yoko Kuno is one of my favorites because the lovely sad music by Cuushe (never heard of this band but sounds really promising). Here it is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5QvrGxTnQ
And And by Mirai Mizue has colored shapes moving around, much more impressively kaleidoscopic than her other film here.
In A Pig's Eye by Atsushi Wada is about a family living next to an enormous sleeping pig. Dad covers himself in pork slices. Mother can't get grandpa upstairs because his socks are so slippy. Huge pig shits out an old lady. Dog hides lipstick. I know this kind of animation is very time consuming so it's funny to imagine animators like these telling people what they've been working on so long.
There are 3 volumes of this series. This company (Carte Blanche?) makes similar animation anthologies from other countries too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
^saw the Mizue volume of this; holy shit it's insane and complex and beautiful and brainfrying.
Also finally got around to the recobbled Thief and the Cobbler. Pretty easy to understand how this never found an audience: it's visually an awe-inspiring art film and thematically made for small children. The plot is abysmally boring but the animation feels nearly computer created in its precision and buttery smoothness. Easy to love, hard to recommend.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
I think I'd maybe show hesitant viewers the ending, which is incredible.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/primal/spear-and-fang
― Mordy, Friday, 25 October 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
Good night, children/ Spokojnoj Noch, Malyshi! (1999) by Norsteinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkkE6tdQc4Extraordinary technique and the smiling rabbit is so cute.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.
saw this screened last night, v much worth a look
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
The Hungarian film Ruben Brandt, Collector is up on UK/Ireland Netflix now (not sure about other locations) and is definitely worth a look. I saw it at an animation festival not long ago and loved it, but was unsure about the ending... good reason for a second watch!
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
I didn't know Kamler did Claymation. The one I saw was 2d animation of a ball bouncing on stairs. Very surreal.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
DID NOT know Laika was Vinton's studio and that they forcibly ousted himhttps://tedium.co/2019/12/17/holiday-tv-alternatives/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
whoa, that's messed up. had no idea, and i'm a big Laika fan!
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link