AMG: In this animated feature-length movie, five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor (originally five separate “shorts” created between 1971-1974) get him mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life. As Sinbad triumphs over adversity, parents should be warned that some scenes of unexpected cruelty and questionable ethics (the Old Man of the Sea has his head crushed while he is too drunk to know what he is doing), may not be the best fare for smaller totsRead More »
Animation
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Karel Zeman – Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci AKA A Thousand and One Nights (1974)
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Ujicha – Retneprac 2 AKA The Retnepac 2 (2009)
Ujicha2001-2010AnimationJapanShort FilmEarly “gekimation” by Japanese filmmaker Ujicha.Read More »
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Genevieve Anderson – Too Loud a Solitude (2007)
2001-2010AnimationGenevieve AndersonUSAAn elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.Read More »
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Marcell Jankovics – Az ember tragédiája AKA The Tragedy of Man (2011)
Marcell Jankovics2011-2020AnimationDramaHungaryAdam’s and Eve’s epic journey throughout history trying to find the meaning of human life. Do we grow in wisdom as centuries pass, or just drift towards an inevitable doom?Read More »
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Xiaopeng Tian – Shen hai AKA Deep Sea (2023)
2021-2030AnimationChinaFantasyXiaopeng TianA girl strays into the dreamy deep sea world. In the deepest part of the sea, all secrets are hidden.Read More »
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Jannik Hastrup & Flemming Quist Møller – Bennys badekar AKA Benny’s Bathtub (1971)
1971-1980AnimationComedyDenmarkFlemming Quist MøllerJannik HastrupHow can you not love a psychedelic animated kids’ film in which a young boy, bored with the dreary and gray Adult World, follows an enchanted tadpole through the drain in his bathtub – where he discovers a surreal and musical undersea world?? Populated by singing (and barely dressed) Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates, the underwater kingdom is the grooviest scene this side of YELLOW SUBMARINE, with helpings of Dr. Seuss, Sid & Marty Krofft and Harry Nilsson’s THE POINT thrown in. (Kids’ entertainment in the early 1970s was truly outtasite!) In addition to the candy-colored, kaleidoscopic visuals, the film is famed for its incredibly addictive soundtrack featuring Jazz heavyweights of Copenhagen circa 1970, with vocals sung by the cream of Danish 60s Pop and Rock including Peter Belli, Otto Brandenburg, Poul Dissing and Trille on tracks like “Octopussong/ Blækspruttesangen” and “seahorsesong/ Søhestesangen”. Read More »
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Tomoyasu Murata – Indigo Road (2006)
2001-2010AnimationJapanShort FilmTomoyasu MurataSynopsis
The My Road series—Scarlet Road (2002), White Road (2003), Indigo Road (2006), and the most recent instalment Lemon Road (2008)—can be read as meditations on loss and mourning. These poetic films tell their story through motif, character expression, music and montage and require repeated viewing for one to absorb the subtly evoked layers of meaning.(Source: Midnight Eye)Read More »
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Isao Takahata – Sero hiki no Gôshu AKA Goshu the Cellist (1982)
1981-1990AnimationFantasyIsao TakahataJapanGauche, a struggling cellist in a small orchestra, is inspired by his interactions with animals to gain insight into music.Read More »
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Eddie Lateste – Tintin et le temple du soleil aka Tintin and the Temple of the Sun aka Seven Crystal Balls and the Prisoners of the Sun (1969)
1961-1970AnimationBelgiumEddie LatesteSynopsis from Imdb:
Tintin travels to Peru to rescue some archaeologists from an old Inca curse.Wikipedia:
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (original title Tintin et le temple du soleil) is a 1969 animated film produced by Belvision Studios. A co-production between Belgium, France and Switzerland, it is an adaptation of Hergé’s two-part Tintin adventure The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.
Coming after the success of the Belvision cartoon series, Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, there was a lot of publicity for the movie (which was the first of two animated films, the second being 1972’s Tintin and the Lake of Sharks).Read More »