Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed

Sigh, yeah it is. Still a awesome film though.

And my old copy was kind of vanilla.

Can we talk about anamolisa

With me? No, I haven't seen it. Kind of want to, although I'm not a Kaufman fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOsdCr3pNE
Un Homme Est Mort by Olivier Cossu of Les Armateurs
http://lesarmateurs-lesite.fr/en/projets/a-man-is-dead/

Sign up to see it here w/English subtitles: http://bit.ly/frenchlaborfilm

I enjoyed that, thanks.

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

Not really snobby enough for this thread, but Laika's Missing Link, which we saw yesterday, is tremendous.

Laika is always great

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

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.

Anomalisa is on film4 tonight. 2016 Oscar winning animation. Not seen it myself but...

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.

^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.

I think I'd maybe show hesitant viewers the ending, which is incredible.

https://www.adultswim.com/videos/primal/spear-and-fang

Good night, children/ Spokojnoj Noch, Malyshi! (1999) by Norstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkkE6tdQc4
Extraordinary technique and the smiling rabbit is so cute.

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

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!

I didn't know Kamler did Claymation. The one I saw was 2d animation of a ball bouncing on stairs. Very surreal.

DID NOT know Laika was Vinton's studio and that they forcibly ousted him
https://tedium.co/2019/12/17/holiday-tv-alternatives/

whoa, that's messed up. had no idea, and i'm a big Laika fan!

yeah, same. it's a huge bummer.

Masaaki Yuasa has a new TV series called Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na! (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!).
just watched the first episode and it's up to his usual excellent standard, the sequences where the characters live inside their own drawings are wonderful
here's a trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYbdQImkp4

yeah its good

thanks for the heads up on this; really enjoyed it!

how would you watch that, Funimation sub?

i mean, Crunchyroll?

yeah crunchyroll or illegal means

will probably finish in march if you want to be patient and watch it all on a free trial

Norstein is master of the form, but I'm now resigned to the likelihood that The Overcoat is never going to be finished in his lifetime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2QqDervCU&t=71

It blows my mind that I can remember it being discussed on TV documentaries from around 20 years ago, and it's still only around halfway done.

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, December 21, 2018 7:23 PM (one year ago)

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2880-three-fantastic-journeys-by-karel-zeman

I don't have a 4k TV but 1080p blurays with a nice looking box & features sounds nice.

family guy

BANNED

Zeman box looks very nice! Not sure I’m going to rebuy them though.

Newish director called Ujicha, cant wait for these!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxSIDpPBR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFmFwQpfOQ

i watched half of violence voyager; didn't do much for me... kind of a motion comic.

oscar animated nom I Lost My Body is on netflix - is it worth a watch?

Found Oscar winner "Hair Love" online. It looks great and means well, but is ultimately kinda mawkish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28

Quite amazing episode from a series called Operavox. I imagine this would have been astoundingly difficult to make. The faces are so expressive too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7MdhB6GEc

After all my talk of patience recently, I've been guiltily skipping around most of my youtube backlog of animation.

Some of Piotr Dumala's films are really impressive, scratchy, with lots of large dark mysterious spaces with people moving in and out of the light. One of the most recent is a pretty heavy piece about domestic abuse.

It can't be emphasized enough that "Russian animation eus347" is an essential channel and without that person there would be a gaping hole in this world.

i watched Fierlinger's 'Drawn From Memory' last night, very solid... voicework from Vaclav Havel! this is a decent accompanying piece with selections from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9AS_0Da0xM

thanks for that youtube channel btw; found tons of neat stuff immediately!

I hated the way Aeon Flux looked when I was a kid (didn't The Phantom cartoon look the same?) but I've heard some people say it was genius and this video explained why nicely enough. I'll probably never watch it but glad to know more about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOT_-VQfi8

It's why I joined this board in the '90s! Life-changing.

Animation? Aeon Flux?

AF, in specific. Different handle back then, though.

Ya Idu Iskat (I Go Seek) 1992 by Fessenko.
Seems to be his only film. Some really impressive sights, most of them early on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOASL4UzZg

WAAAH by Sawako Kabuki from 2018
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=npiEBAiRBHI

Nice

There's a lot more Takashi Taniguchi on youtube than there used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubX_aqXctRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_7_HvNSSg
This one is just a stomach complaining about things people eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3OywZK4Tc

oh mr stomach