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

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!

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/