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

that looks cool, I always liked the puppet storybooks:

http://modernkiddo.com/vintage-bookshelf-rocketship-to-the-moon/

I recently came across The Mill At Calder's End and fell in love with Kevin McTurk's work, even if it is a bit (deliberately?) clunky in places. The Narrative Of Victor Karloch is great as well.

http://www.fanboy-confidential.com/articles/9815/

That looks awesome thankyou, I just watched some clips and I must get the disc collection.
http://www.thespiritcabinet.com/#thespiritcabinet
https://vimeo.com/user3963984/videos

Got the dvd collection The Exquisite Short Films Of Kihachiro Kawamoto. It's 7 films from 1968 to 1979. I don't know why they stopped there, Kimstim also released his last film Book Of The Dead but they could have filled another disc with everything inbetween. I'm not that eager to see the rest but it would have been nice.

I didn't like some of the earliest ones much. Even though he's best known for the stop motion puppets I liked the two films with drawn and painted cutouts most. Much like when I was watching Book Of Dead, I gave up trying to understand early and just zoned out, but I found it more pleasant with these.
One short is based on a Kobo Abe story and another has Toru Takemitsu music.

New Masaaki Yuasa joint coming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5W9eHDxBDc

Spent most of Kubo and the Two Strings thinking it was an above-average CGI movie with a nice japanese setting. then watched the extras and it was all stop motion, including an 18ft skeleton...

(should've remembered having my mind blown by the wardrobe dept on Coraline knitting all her jumpers and gloves)

Just got around to seeing The Boy and the Beast. Ghibli-level imo

Yeah, that one is great. One of those films that are about five times better than it needed to be. Towards the end I was wondering if they were setting up a franchise, as more and more stuff started happening, but they tied it all together really well.

Mamoru Hosada in general is really good.

i really liked The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, should really catch up on his other films

Those two are probably his best, but check out his other ones as well. I really like the way he combines worlds and art styles.

Your Name is getting Danish premiere this May. As it's on it's way to become the most succesful animated film ever, it's probably as mainstream as it comes, but I'm still really excited!

So Your Name is pretty much a game-changer. I could see it be almost as important as Spirited Away in widening the idea of what anime can be in the west. It's not quite that good, but what is?

It was kinda funny to me that the press material called Shinkai the new Mamoru Hosada. Well, he will probably overshadow Hosada, at least in the west, though they are quite alike, and the film is a lot like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a way.

I had much higher expectations for Kubo & The Two Strings. It's no Book Of Life, I'll tell ya.

Got the Spirit Cabinet disc with The Mill At Calder's End and The Narrative Of Victor Karloch. The stories aren't very interesting, they're fairly nice exercises in Victorian ghost horror style. The puppets are very impressive, there's a little bit of unnecessary computer facial animation. Barbara Steele, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd and some others lend their voices and likenesses for the puppets. I look forward to what this team does in the future.

I watched the second disc of Quay Brothers - Inner Sanctums (I've seen everything on the first disc on the earlier compilation). I'm less fond of the museum documentaries, which can be a little too slow but their regular puppet stories are still some of the most beautiful and mysterious films being made, some of them are literary adaptations.
The short Christopher Nolan documentary is really just the Quay Brothers giving a tour of their amazing storage room.

re mamoru hosada - summer wars is worth watching. it's a little goofy at times but is visually great and overall worth checking out.

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/04/04/women-in-british-animation-petra-freeman/

enjoyed the Red Turtle. Very beautiful, very slow-moving, but charming and thought-provoking.

Kevin McTurk's series of samurai horror
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935772123/the-haunted-swordsman-a-ghost-story-puppet-film?ref=creator_nav

Ferenc Cako's sand animation is really good.

https://youtu.be/QAJGRGYxc98

Jumping Joan by Petra Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooxsCp_52I

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.

Let me try Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

UGH!

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

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.

Recently watched a 1990 version of Quest For Olwen, Russian animated for welsh television. Very nice style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QB6EsHAih8

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=sTzQSxFMyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fm8Xn_GNHQ

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, 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.

Cool, will check some of their stuff out. My backlog of stuff to watch means all I have is time, anyway.

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

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

odd trailer for Tezuka's Cleopatra, Tomita soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4muZbgxsY
also see the trailer for Tezuka's 1001 Nights featuring a man pleasuring a woman by kick-grazing her bottom.

The guy who went on to make Belladonna Of Sadness worked on these!

Giordano Bruno by Vladimir Goncharov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlWilS-D6w

'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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3yivaOcJA

whooooa

as vaporwavey adult swim goes....this goes hard

that was great yeah

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.

Watching it now. Morph, Len Lye, animal farm, Bob Godfrey... It's nice but it's a bit basic so far

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.

Amazing trailer for A Casa Lobo/The Wolf House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gfk8e_WhM

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.

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