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

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.

lots of stuff to check here, wow.

waltz with bashir is one of my favourite films in memory really, i've seen it about 10 times and would watch it another 10. is there anything specifically like that? people say persepolis but it isn't really that similar...

i've never read/heard anyone say persepolis is like WWB. both great, but totally different, in animation style at least (both have a pretty somber tone tbf).

Ronan, not an animation, but you could do worse than check out the comics of Joe Sacco maybe? I've just discovered him and his cartoon-reportage on Palestine/Israel is fab!

haha I was going to rec the same thing. Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde are both great. Perseoplis was a good movie but comparing it to Waltz w/Bashir seems a little...unimaginative.

yeah totally, i sort of knew that when people compared. i can't stress how much i liked waltz with bashir, it's like my personal ideal film.

i saw some of joe sacco's stuff and sort of read the covers when i worked in a bookstore back in 07, always found it interesting. it's sort of weird, i've never really known anything about graphic novels or animated films, but i am pretty sure i really like them based on the tiny few that permeate the mainstream which i end up seeing and liking.

dunno if it's been listed yet, really enjoyed 9. Probably adolescent aimed.

i love this stuff, wish there was more out there...

Fear(s) of the Dark / Peur(s) du noir is cool. love the animated Charles Burns.

Grave of the Fireflies is devastating, adult anime though it's about kids (orphans surviving in WWII Japan).

and i'll stan for both American Pop and Heavy Metal, warts'n'boobies'n'all

and Time Masters is like the animated Metal Hurlant - adult sci-fi from Moebius and the director of Fantastic Planet

Oh man, I saw part of Time Masters once. It was fucking crazy! OTOH I was on mushrooms but I'm pretty sure the movie was still crazy.

Wings of Honneamise or however it's spelled
sacco recommendations: the fixer, palestine and footnotes in gaza are all required reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5sacgeY5Q

and 2nd the recommendation of time masters. like everything i've seen by laloux, though. fantastic planet especially, but light years, too.

so many good suggestions here. i've only begun to work my way through them.

we saw megamind this weekend. clearly geared for kids, but some stuff for adults, too! especially the cool soundtrack. best bit was the use of g-n'-r's welcome to the jungle at the beginning of the big battle scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXU0iHg1oC0

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!"

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:27 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Yeah, Svankmajer and the Quays absolutely. Surprised more people aren't repping them ITT. I think you can watch a bunch of Svankmajer stuff free or cheap on here:

http://mubi.com/cast_members/458

Bakshi's great. Shakey linked to The Complete Ralph Bakshi in the other thread, and it's really one of the best animation related books you could ever read.

A couple other things that spring to mind:

Marquis, French live action/stop motion blend about the Marquis de Sade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcc9E_r_wTw

Isao Takahatao's Omohide Poro Poro or Only Yesterday - there's really nothing else exactly like this in anime, from an animation or storytelling perspective. It's a contemplative, expressionistic story about a 27-year old woman reflecting on her childhood, family and future. I believe there's no official release in the United States due to references to menstruation, but shouldn't be hard to find a region-free copy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9WNAcPcIGY

I think Marquis has a scene where a lobster is stuffed in someone's butt. Haven't seen it in 20 years so the details, while traumatizing, may be slightly off. One of only a handful of movies I've ever walked out on.

http://i.imgur.com/MeMTN.gif

pretty sure I need to see this

that's a prosthetic i'm sure of it.

But it's his real face.

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!