Arresting Animations (15 titles)
If you, or a friend, think cartoons are unsophisticated, not sexy or just for kids these should change your mind.
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Belleville Rendez-vous
2003 The protagonist is so well defined you won't notice the film has only a handful of words.
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Belleville Rendez-vous
on DVD
(2003)
Director: Sylvain Chomet
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In this animated French film, a boy named Champion trains relentlessly for the Tour de France, with the help of his loyal grandmother and overweight dog, Bruno (who loves to bark at passing trains). When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some thugs who ..read more »
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Yellow Submarine
1968 The greatest, feature length music video ever made with a powerful lesson in free-love philosophy.
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Yellow Submarine
(1968)
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Director: George Dunning
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In this animated tale featuring the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled emissary from Pepperland, the lads from Liverpool take a ride in their yellow submarine to aid the besieged ..read more »
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Street of Crocodiles
1986 Stop-action animation by the acclaimed Brothers Quay. Influenced by Kafka the brothers make incredibly intricate and disturbing worlds.
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Street of Crocodiles
(1986)
Starring: Feliks Stawinski
Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
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Animated feature. An old caretaker enters a run-down museum and there he lets some of his spit fall into a Kinetoscope machine. This sets off the mechanism of the machine, and a puppet figure of a man is conjured up?
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Princess Mononoke
1997 A sad but beautiful reminder of how the industrial revolution destroyed folklore.
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Princess Mononoke
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the warrior Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) is cursed with a rapidly spreading scar that threatens to end his life. ..read more »
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WALL-E
2008 The first half hour is a gorgeous piece of silent film and the second, a powerful allegory of how technology can lead to sloth.
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WALL-E
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt
Director: Andrew Stanton
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The year is 2700 and the Earth is polluted, barren and exhausted. Wall-E is the last of a group of clean-up robots, sent to restore the Earth by lifting and compressing the endless quantities of rubbish left behind by a human race that has withdrawn to the safety of space. Wall-E spends every ..read more »
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South Park - Bigger, Longer And Uncut
1999 If you are going to satirize be vulgar but brilliant.
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South Park - Bigger, Longer And Uncut
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, George Clooney
Director: Trey Parker
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The now-legendary animated series makes a big-screen splash with a feature-length film that features the same crude animation but now has the license to be as rude as it wants to be. Keep the kids away and enjoy the episode of SOUTH PARK you always hoped you'd see. Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman ..read more »
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1988 Jessica Rabbit is one of the hottest women to make it in film, cartoon or no.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Chris Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Someone is out to steal Toon Town from the cartoon characters who inhabit the magical land. But to get their hands on the valuable property, they have framed its biggest star for murder. Detective Eddie Valiant is brought out of a self-enforced retirement to solve the case and save the Toons. A ..read more »
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Ghost In The Shell
1995 Packed with philosophical quotes and purpose this is a beautifully choreographed film.
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Ghost In The Shell
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Richard George, Mimi Woods, William Frederick
Director: Mamoru Oshii
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Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to ..read more »
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When The Wind Blows
1986 WIth a title track sung by David Bowie, Raymond Briggs may have soothed us with The Snowman but here you will see the sorrowful demise of a couple as they try to protect themselves from nuclear fallout.
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When The Wind Blows
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: peggy ashcroft (voice), Peggy Ashcroft, john mills (voice)
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
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A darkly satirical and deeply affecting tale, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS concerns the final days of Jim and Hilda Bloggs, an elderly couple living in the remote Sussex countryside, whose almost romantic, rose-tinted memories of World War II are put into sharp relief when they are faced with the threat of ..read more »
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Fantasia
1940 Introduced me to classical music as a child and I loved it ever since/
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Fantasia
(1940)
Starring: Deems Taylor, deems taylor (pre/narr)
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Hamilton Luske
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Walt Disney took a big chance with this ambitious anthology of animated fantasies. First, he set them to lengthy classical music pieces, and then he boldly experimented with different forms of animation, sometimes jettisoning any sort of narrative altogether. The result is a sometimes mesmerizing, ..read more »
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