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SUBLIME CINEMA #286 - HAVE A NICE DAY

This pulpy Chinese film is unlike much I’ve seen before; it’s been compared to Tarantino, for its dark irreverent humor, random acts of violence and gangland storyline, only the animation is so off-kilter against the story being told that something heightened comes across here, and after seeing it, I can’t really imagine it told another way. Had the movie been told ‘straight’, with real actors and camerawork, it would still be awesome, but rendering it all into drawing gives it a comedically light touch that is really something else. Have a Nice Day is more transgressive comic book than anime or Pixar, it’s dark and hilarious.

The Breadwinner (2017) dir. Nora Twomey

Raise your words,

not your voice.

It is the rain

that makes flowers

grow,

not thunder.

#the breadwinner #nora twomey #animated film #animated movie #animation #animated cinema #cinema #film #movies #oscars

From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.

October 5, 2020

Edited by Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher

(Vulture) -- All animation, whether it depicts a whistling mouse, a walking dinosaur, or a leaping superhero, is a kind of magic trick. It’s right there in the name of one of the earliest devices used to project slides: the magic lantern. If you take an image of an open hand and an image of a fist and project the two in sequence, you’ll convey the illusion of a clench. “What happens between each frame is more important than what happens on each frame,” the prominent experimental animator Norman McLaren (who makes the list with his short Neighbours, below) once explained. “Therefore, animation is the art of manipulating the invisible interstices between frames.”

That has largely remained true throughout the medium’s history, both frame by frame and over the course of a two-hour children’s movie. Animated cartoons fool the brain into believing that static images can move; characters are “brought to life” by putting pen to paper or finger to a computer’s trackpad. The medium that began to crawl thanks to the live performances of inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud and illusionist Georges Méliès has now matured into a complex and diverse art form — one that has seen new processes and cultural innovations in every decade since its inception. The characters and intellectual properties it has drawn into existence are as relatable as Daffy Duck and as lucrative as Mickey Mouse. Today, vast audiences understand what artists like McLaren were observing: that the invisible holds a marvelous power over us...

... This list is not intended to be comprehensive. One hundred is a crushingly compact number of slots with which to encapsulate the totality of a medium. That isn’t to say we didn’t try. We arrived at our list after months of discussions and arguments among a brain trust of animation professionals, historians, and other experts. More than 600 nominations were considered based on the criteria we established: Since this list is for an American audience, entries skew toward what influenced American animation; to be eligible, sequences had to have been made available, at some point, to audiences in the U.S., whether in limited screenings, wide release, or bootleg importation. You’ll notice Japan’s output is better represented than that of French or Czech animators, which we felt reflected American audiences’ evolving, decades-long relationship with Japanese animation. We excluded porn, video games, and advertising, reasoning that they didn’t jibe with a list of art intended to be consumed, rather than interacted with. We were especially choosy about which examples of combined live action and animation to use — a gimmick that had been deployed long before Mary Poppins — and how to handle the question of special effects, which we tried to limit to moments when we felt the tools and forms used by animators crossed over most dramatically with those of live-action filmmakers.

Included in this list, among others (some of these are NSFW):

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914 short)

King Kong’s introduction, King Kong (1933)

“Night on Bald Mountain”/“Ave Maria”, Fantasia (1940)

The Cat Concerto (1947 short)

“Kill the Wabbit!”, What’s Opera, Doc? (1957 short)

Lysander and Demetrius’ duel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959, Czechoslovakia)

Tobio’s death in the opening moments of the first episode to Astro Boy (1963, Japan)

The bathtub orgy in Fritz the Cat (1972)

“Three Is a Magic Number”, Schoolhouse Rock! (1973)

Music video for “Take on Me” by A-Ha (1985)

Tommy parts the Red Sea in “A Rugrats Passover”, Rugrats (1995)

“All Star”, Shrek (2001)

Miles’s leap of faith, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

#animation #animated cinema #very shocked that the dance sequence from Beauty and the Beast is NOT here #understanding the list's biases and limitations... I think a better list would have almost certainly included more Soviet animation #I don't typically reblog lists like these unless I think they are well curated and compiled so here you are #Vulture

AKIRA (1988). Katsuhiro Ôtomo directs an anime about a mutant biker in Neo-Tokyo.

#film #cinema #akira #anime #1980s #japan #japanime #animation #animated cinema #japanese #japanese cinema #mutant #mutation #neo-tokyo #tokyo

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

#the phantom tollbooth #the adventures of milo in the phantom tollbooth #chuck jones #abe levitow #dave monahan #animation #animation film #animation movie #animated movies #animated film #animated cinema #cult cinema #cult movies #cult film #movie #film #cinema

🎄 Special Christmas Recommendation 🎅🏻: Klaus (2019)

Dir.: Sergio Pablos

Genre: Animation

Plot: A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.

Filmphilics score: 8/10