Great Animated Movies That Aren't For (Or Aren't Necessarily For) Kids

Meant to include this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4s1nhlCMMI

just remembered a very sad french animated film. about aging and longing, iirc. i'll track down the title.

these are all such cool recommendations.

(yours, not mine, i mean)

Fantastic Planet ("La Planète Sauvage") feels a little slow to me sometimes. Even watching it high. But it's very dear to my heart, and it just looks awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Before I got married the only things on my DVD shelf were animated films, sketch comedy box sets, and musicals.

Now its those things and a couple of horror and sci-fi movies.

found it: the triplets of belleville.

very sad, but very worthwhile.

I am having the hardest time not posting all of "Allegro Non Troppo" in this thread. There is this one part with a cat walking around in an abandoned house that is so fantastic.

I have a poor VHS copy of a couple of late 80s editions of the Intl. Tournee of Animation. There are some fantastic shorts on there, not (necessarily) for kids, and a couple that are definitely not for kids. I need to get that tape digitized before it dissolves.

i like how the limited frames in anime give it a kind of theatricality & intensity. maybe this recommendation wld earn me the ire of hardcore anime heads but if yr interested in animation as an artform i wld recommend watching at least some of fooly cooly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8VhWf5ziM

Did anyone else ever own "The Mind's Eye"? It was just CGI demos & shorts mooshed together to new age music. It was my frigging favorite thing in the world when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRoS3n5Cn80&feature=fvw

Some hippie once was talking to me about it once like it was some stoner grail, which cracked me up! It's so old-fashioned looking, and I guess 'cause I grew up with it – my even more conservative aunt & uncle gave it to my family – it just seems so Mormon to me.

i am interested in but have never seen chronopolis by piotr kamler

A great one a friend introduced me to is the totally bonkers Korean movie "Aachi and Ssipak" – the world is addicted to a drug called juicy bars that's made out of human shit, and it causes mutant babies, so it basically deals with the aftermath of this. IIRC it was pretty funny – definitely entertaining. And weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSamzE6qnKM

Or maybe the drugs kept you from shitting? I forget. Something about shit was valuable. Mostly it just looked good.

it does look "totally bonkers," in a good way (except for the use of waste as a plot device -- there's no need for an animated companion to the human centipede)

wow & lol at that minds eye video abbott. clearly i do not have a profound understanding of mormonism. music is p fruity, but i like that next to the animation you barely notice it

Abbott I was trying to find that movie but I couldn't, as the search terms "blue babies" AND "shit bars" brought up no relative hits...

I feel like stop motion guys like Bros. Quay and Jan Svankmajer belong on here. My youngest brother reminded me that I let him watch "Alice" with me when he was seven. "You're the one responsible for ruining my mind!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDizcCTUGdw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJ-yOhpYIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKgyY5aDvA

^w/ amazing terry riley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Y1PhOt6sM

"you should have had sushi in bombay, it would have been better"

i love how good that is

this thread is awesome!

i was tempted to post yr horse gif but i guess anything <10 seconds isn't a 'movie'

can't overstate how much i'd love to see some of this stuff in the cinema. more john whitney w/ more amazing music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE

the inside of harry smith's head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0vVK9LpZU

need to see the full version of this. i'm curious as to how much these early guys knew each other's work.

Bill Plympton's I Married a Strange Person and Mutant Aliens. prefer the former, but they're both pretty terrific.

an animated companion to the human centipede

HEEEELLLLLLLOOOOOOOO new screen name

Trying to find clips, zanything on a Bulgarian animated short called "Konservfilm", which I saw on Ch4 years and years ago. It shows this weird dystopian society, inhabited by tins of fruit(!) Every so often there is a coup, and all of the fruit tins have to change their labels from strawberres to okra or whatever. The humour is v twisted, and at times it is quite tragic. towards the end of the film, the little cans:

http://www.bgmovies.info/images/movies/Konservfilm_1990.jpg

...seem to take on this air of pitiful endless martyrdom, it's hard to explain w/o seeing it, really. It's, I guess, moving.

the above image is the only pic I could find, I could find no ref to it on google video, imdb has a page w/a couple of user reviews, so I guess it exists, and someone else saw it besides me. If anyone knows of anywhere this thing can be located, let me know plz, I'd love to see it again.

Love Whitney's Arabesque - saw it a few years ago at a warehouse cinema and it was absolutely fantastic.

Also want to third When the Wind Blows - horribly moving/frightening post-nuclear bomb drop animation from the creator of The Snowman.

Although: Its one of those movies that leaves it very ambiguous as to if and when the characters die in it.
They die. Sorry about that.

Channel 4 used to show loads of adult-oriented adult shorts during night-time programming, but this is the only one that stands out in my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GJmkUZlyo

*adult-oriented animated shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Rj7nn0ZVs the trailer doesn't really do it justice but this movie is terrific and yeah, the review calling it a hitchcock anime film is otm.

just saw on youtube an animated CGI clip of dolphins -- temporarily -- saving surfers from a shark attack. one of my biggest fears brought to life, via animtion (tho CGI-technology isn't the type of animation i was referring to).

i'm going to check out each of these clips movies (viewed many already). also: lots of cool russian animation films, e.g., the cow (a "paint-on-glass" technique?) and the glass harmonica (tbf, i've skimmed both of these, so i can't vouch for them in full or promise they're free of offensive content).

Just watched The Cow the other day, actually, it's really beautiful.

Everything by Ladislaw Starewicz, here's The Cameraman's Revenge :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI

Cool World and Bebe's Kids are two of my guilty pleasures because I grew up watching them on cable. Not that they're necessarily great by any means, but they are entertaining on a campy level.

Two that are probably aimed at kids but which probably connect just as much, if not more, with adults: Nausicaa (as do many of Miyazaki's films for that matter), and Wall-E, which undoubtedly got much inspiration from Miyazaki as well.

check out all the films of Satoshi Kon who passed away only a few months ago
dude was amazing
* Perfect Blue
* Millennium Actress
* Tokyo Godfathers
* Paranoia Agent
* Paprika

miyazaki has earned widespread affection now, lupin is the most adult & good fun too. another anime i really enjoyed was tekkonkinkreet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWxUVcXyPA

also i'm seriously jealous of emily's big screen whitney viewing

Me too. Best thrift store find of the year for me was "Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art" by John Whitney. Features lots of great full-color stills of his stuff, very detailed explanations of how he made his motion graphics, and even a BASIC program at the end!

Really sad that his films are still unreleased on DVD. Would <3 for the Whitney family to have a McLaren-sized box set release. Or at least a nice sampler. Same for Harry Smith and Jordan Belson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANliclGDsDY&playnext=1&list=PL89FCD63D82A840C4&index=5

"The Happy Prince" from 1974 - it is what it is, but something about the way it's done still destroys me by the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYIQ_41RTo&playnext=1&list=PL59048CB16AA9B873&index=8

Major cosine to satoshi kon reccomendaysh

As posted on exp. film thread but apt for this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMY-3Wg3eE0&feature=player_embedded#!

i didn't even know there was an experimental film thread! thanks. that video is cool, too.

avant-garde, experimental, surreal film

a couple of interesting films from down under to check out: "Mary & Max", and "$9.99".

The latter freaked me out more than it probably intended.

Oh fuck yes, the local rental place has it on VHS.

WTF x10000

DOes it have a bunch of philosophical railing like de Sade's stuff does?

Honestly don't remember.

You can watch the whole thing on youtube.

I would save that gif to my hard drive but that one Idaho teacher who got arrested recently for having Simpsons porn on his compy made me reconsider. ~chilling fx~

good lord, why would having simpsons porn -- which i can't imagine to begin with -- get someone arrested?!?

Btw I recommend Only Yesterday much more highly than Marquis! :[

Only Yesterday looks great. Thx for the recs ptt.

Tango

Tango

― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:37 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Whoa, that ruled! And it was directed by the guy who did the Close (to the Edit) video!

thank you, Eric! i've wanted to see this again for ages. tried YouTube a few times, to no avail. maybe because of the FFN from 3:40 on. NSFW!

wow, i need to check out marquis

Just saw Fantastic Planet for the first time and it blew my mind. I loved it, no caveats, and will be checking out everything that Laloux has ever done in the near future, pretty much. Great soundtrack, too.

Thanking the people who mentioned it on this thread

SO glad you liked FP! It is a favorite! I heard the book by Anton Wul was good, too...someone stole it from the library, though...

I am stoked for "The Illusionist," it is coming to the theater here in a few weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElAeVdDCDs

begone dull care - Norman McLaren

Thanks for recommending this!

Oh, that Debussy clip is amazing too. I added Allegro non Troppo to my Ziplist.

(I'm also fond of Alice and Fantastic Planet. Loving this thread.)

OMG Allegro Non Troppo! I saw that in the cinema in the early 90s and loved it. Such sad parts!

I just watched Mia and the Migoo and I am pretty sure it is FOR kids. I say this because it was just painfully didactic with the most and worst explainy dialogue! But it looked really good. Maybe one to turn the sound off & light a J at home.

Probably the best thing about it was the colors + the nice impressionistic backdrops – hard to find pics that show that tho

http://static.euronews.net/images_old/08/W300px_cinema-MiaMigou.jpg

I saw a dubbed version & I would like to think maybe the translation is what made the dialogue so unbearably bad – but I doubt it!

One of the claymation pieces I love from the Tournee of Animation I mentioned upthread is up. Csaba Varga, Luncheon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMzx_e6l0cM

akira

https://hyperallergic.com/369024/a-trove-of-early-japanese-animated-films-is-now-online/