The Savage Planet, also called The Fantastic Planet, is an allegorical science-fiction animated movie about morality and the established social order.
The story is set in the dystopian planet...
"The Fantastic Planet" by Rene Laloux (1974)
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
10/28/2013
10/26/2013
"Metropolis" by Osamu Tezuka (2001)
A Japanese animation movie based on a comic by Osamu Tezuka, that tells the story of android Tima and her human friend Kenichi in the city of Metropolis. It is loosely based in the classic movie...
9/10/2013
"The Pied Piper" by Jiri Barta (1985)
Krysar is an adult stop-motion animation film, loosely based on the German folk tale the Pipe Piper of Hamelin. A real art-house piece of animation that has a mix of Renaissance and Medieval elements.
There...
7/07/2013
"Fantasia 2000" by Various Directors (1999)
When Walt Disney was a person alive making animations movies and not just a brand, he had the dream of making animated concerts mixing his animation with classical music. Fantasia was born. ...
7/06/2013
"The Iron Giant" by Brad Bird (1999)
The Iron Giant tells the story of the fall into Earth of an alien giant robot, and his relation with a naughty child who lives with his single mother in a small town in the States.
The movie...
"Cars" by John Lasseter& Joe Ranft (2006)
In a world inhabited by locomotive machines and cars, the little abandoned town of Radiator Spring is languishing. The visit of a posh race car, Lightning McQueen, will revitalise the live of the locals...
4/12/2013
"Dr Seuss' Horton hears a Who!" by Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino (2008)
Dr Seuss's eponymous story is brought to the big screen with respect, truthfulness and heart in this animated movie. The thing that makes the movie good is not not the animation, but Dr Seuss's...
1/27/2013
"Little Otik" by Jan Svankmajer (2000)
Little Ottik is a bizarre horror comedy that adapts and reinterprets the folk story of Otesánek (aka Greedy Guts) for the big screen.This is the story of the struggle of Bozena and Karel to hide and...
11/24/2012
"Sita Sings the Blues" by Nina Paley (2008)
The movie can be watched online at Nina Paley's website.
Sita Sings the Blues is an animated film based on one of the episodes in the Ramayana, but adapted to modern sensibilities, that has Sita -Rama's...
11/11/2012
"Waltz with Bashir" by Ari Folman (2008)
Waltz with Bashir is a documentary animation movie that narrates director Ari Folman's personal trip to recover his memory regarding his participation in the invasion of Lebanon and in the massacre...
10/20/2012
"The Corpse Bride" by Tim Burton & Mike Johnson (2005)
A stop-motion comic-horror-romance musical directed by Tim Burton, which has all the elements and icons of the Burton's quirky universe.The movie tells the story of Victor (Johnny Depp), who is in...
9/06/2012
"Grave of the Fireflies" by Isao Takahata (1988)
The Grave of the Fireflies is the story of survival of two Japanese brothers: 4y.o. girl Satsuko and her 14y.o brother Saita, at the end of the Second World War in Japan. It is based on the...
9/03/2012
"Brave" by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman & Steve Purcell (2012)
Merida is the oldest daughter of Fergus and Elinor. She is a tomboy, a bit of a rebel, opinionated and wild. She happily lives with her parents and triplets until she is asked to fulfil her destiny,...
9/02/2012
"Kiki's Delivery Service" by Hayao Miyazaki (1989)
Kiki's Delivery service is a Studio Ghibli's traditional hand-drawn animation movie loosely based on Eiko Kadono's eponymous book, but with important additions by Miyazaki. It tells the story of Kiki,...
8/11/2012
"Kirikou and the Sorceress" by Michel Ocelot (1998)
Kirikou et la Sorcière is a delightful French-Belgian traditional animation movie loosely based on a West-African folk tale.The movie tells the story of newly born Kirikou, a special child who asks...
7/30/2012
"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud (2007)
Persepolis is a French animated movie that narrates the autobiographical story of Iranian artist Marjane Satrap; it is based on her own graphic novel. It is an honest movie, heart-warming, extremely...
7/21/2012
"The Triplets of Belleville" by Sylvain Chomet (2003)
A Franco-Belgian-Canadian animated movie, The Triplets of Belleville tells the story of a French cyclist Champion, his Portuguese grandma, and their unwanted adventures in America, where they meet...
7/15/2012
"The Experimental Films of Osamu Tezuka" (1986)
A mix of animation films by the master of animation Tezuka, (Astroboy's creator). The DVD contains thirteen shorts with different animation styles and techniques made between 1962-1986.
"Tales...
7/05/2012
"Mary and Max" by Adam Elliot (2009)
Web of the Movie
A wonderful Australian independent plasticine movie that tells the story of a life-long mail relationship between Max Jerry Horowitz, an old autistic atheist Jew from New York, and...
6/05/2012
"Tangled" by Nathan Greno & Byron Howard (2010)
Tangled is a free adaptation of the traditional fairy-tale of Rapunzel. A fairy-tale romance and adventure movie, but also a coming of age story in which Rapunzel leaves the too-oppressive maternal...
