Animation

Monsters Inc - Review

MikeDawson — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:09:38 -0700

Warning: contains possible mild spoilers

Is Monsters Inc a political commentary?

Pixar’s recent films WALL-E (2008) and Up (2009) have impressed critics and audiences with their intellectual and emotional substance which previous computer animations have apparently lacked. WALL-E offered a dystopic vision of Earth abandoned by obese, disconnected humans and presented a thoughtful, if obvious environmental message, while Up’s opening left many grown adults in tears.

Porco Rosso - Review

DanceDanceDance — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:19:43 -0700

Perhaps the most interesting facet of film revisionism is what films by celebrated directors get lost in the mix. For example, Martin Scorsese’s filmography is highly acclaimed particularly the period from Mean Streets in 1973 until 1980’s Raging Bull, however very few people when discussing this great body of work ever discuss Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. It was critically acclaimed upon release and went a long way to establish Scorsese as new force in American cinema.

Allegro non Troppo – Review

MikeDawson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:32:46 -0700

Is Allegro non Troppo better than Fantasia? In my ninetieth year of youth yes, at a younger age maybe not, as a landmark in animation it’s lesser, as a sustained piece of humour and surrealism its even more a film for its disco year of 1976, standing now 30 years later as the first true, all ages animation feature, the most theatrical of all.

Fantasic Planet - Review

MikeDawson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:34:01 -0700

Fantastic Planet is a psychedelic, futurism dystopian French animation from 1973, two beings, one depraved; one primitive is presented, based on a Stefan Wul novel, Rene Laloux’s co-adaptation with Roland Topor is a visually rich, everlasting offering from the era of badly told sci-fi morality tales, which ranged in theme, acting, effects, budget and pretension,