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Arthouse Animation
Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film. Examples of arthouse animated films 20th Century *''Fantasia'' (1940) *'' Neighbours'' (1952) * ''Journey to the Beginning of Time'' (1955) * '' Invention for Destruction'' (1958) * ''The Fabulous Baron Munchausen'' (1962) *'' Game of Angels'' (1964) *''Time Piece'' (1965) *'' The Glass Harmonica'' (1968) *''Fritz the Cat'' (1972) *''Johnny Corncob'' (1973) *''Belladonna of Sadness'' (1973) *''Fantastic Planet'' (1973) *''Hedgehog in the Fog'' (1975) *''Allegro Non Troppo'' (1976) *''Watership Down'' (1978) *'' Tale of Tales'' (1979) *''Asparagus'' (1979) *''Son of the White Mare'' (1981) *''Dimensions of Dialogue'' (1982) *''The Plague Dogs'' (1982) *''Angel's Egg'' (1985) *''The Brave Little Toaster'' (1987) *'' Wicked City'' (1987) *'' Akira'' (1988) *''Alice'' (1988) *'' Only Yesterday'' (1991) *''The Thief and the Cobbler'' (1993) *''Faust'' (1994) *''Ghost in the Shell'' (1995) *''Perfect Blue'' (1997) *''Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Film
An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", containing "unconventional or highly symbolic content". Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing "formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films". These qualities can include (among other elements): a sense of social realism; an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director; and a focus on the thoughts, dreams, or motivations of characters, as opposed to the unfolding of a clear, goal-driven story. Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as "a film genre, with its own distinct conventions". Art film producers usually present their films at special theaters ( repertory cinemas or, in the U.S., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tale Of Tales (1979 Film)
''Tale of Tales'' (russian: Сказка сказок, ''Skazka skazok'') is a 1979 Soviet/ Russian animated film directed by Yuri Norstein and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. It has won numerous awards, has been acclaimed by critics and other animators, and has received the title of greatest animated film of all time in various polls. It has been the subject of a 2005 book by Clare Kitson titled ''Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey''. Plot ''Tale of Tales'', like Andrei Tarkovsky's ''Mirror'', attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of one thing with another, which means that any attempt to put memory on film cannot be told like a conventional narrative. The film is thus made up of a series of related sequences whose scenes are interspersed between each other. One of the primary themes involves war, with particular emphasis on the enor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost In The Shell (1995 Film)
''Ghost in the Shell'' is a 1995 adult animated neo-noir cyberpunk thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by frequent Oshii collaborator Kazunori Itō. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow. It stars the voices of Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ōtsuka, and Iemasa Kayumi. It is a Japanese-British international co-production, executive produced by Kodansha, Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment, with animation provided by Production I.G. The film is set in 2029 Japan, and follows Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg public-security agent, who hunts a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master. The narrative incorporates philosophical themes that focus on self-identity in a technologically advanced world. The music, composed by Kenji Kawai, includes vocals in classical Japanese language. The film's visuals were created through a combination of traditional cel animation and CGI animation. Upon release, ''Ghost in the Shell'' received positive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faust (1994 Film)
''Faust'' ( cs, Lekce Faust, lit=Lesson Faust) is a 1994 live-action/animated film directed and written by Jan Švankmajer. An international co-production between the Czech Republic, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, the film merges live-action footage with stop-motion animation, including puppetry and claymation. Produced by Jaromír Kallista, the film does not relate the legend of Faustus accurately according to the original, instead borrowing and blending elements from the 1808 story as told by Goethe and c. 1598-1592 by Christopher Marlowe with traditional folk renditions. It has elements of modernism and absurdism, and has a Kafkaesque atmosphere, enhanced by being set in Prague, and the tone is dark but humorous. The film was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot The story begins on the streets of Prague on a grey morning busy with commuters. A colourle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thief And The Cobbler
''The Thief and the Cobbler'' is an unfinished animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Richard Williams. Originally conceived in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation. It was finally placed into full production in 1989, when Warner Bros. agreed to finance and distribute the film. When production went over budget and behind schedule, it was heavily cut and hastily re-edited by producer Fred Calvert without Williams's involvement. It was eventually released by Allied Filmmakers in 1993 with the title ''The Princess and the Cobbler''. Two years later, Disney's Miramax Films released another re-edit titled ''Arabian Knight''. Both versions of the film performed poorly at the box office and received mixed reviews. Over the years, various people and companies, including Roy E. Disney, have discussed restoring the film to its original version. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Pictur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Yesterday (1991 Film)
is a 1991 Japanese animated drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, based on the 1982 manga of the same title by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho. It was released on July 20, 1991. The ending theme song is a Japanese translation of Amanda McBroom's composition "The Rose". ''Only Yesterday'' explores a genre traditionally thought to be outside the realm of animated subjects: a realistic drama written for adults, particularly women. The film was a surprise box office success, attracting a large adult audience and becoming the highest-grossing Japanese film of 1991 in the country. It has also been well received by critics outside of Japan—it has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. To celebrate the film's 25th anniversary, GKIDS released the film for the first time in an English-language format on February 26, 2016, featuring the voices of Daisy Ridley, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice (1988 Film)
''Alice'' is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is ''Něco z Alenky'', which means "Something from Alice". It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book, '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865), about a girl who follows a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. Alice is played by Kristýna Kohoutová. The film combines live action with stop motion animation, and is distinguished by its dark production design. For Švankmajer, a prolific director of short films for more than two decades, ''Alice'' became his first venture into feature-length filmmaking. The director had been disappointed by other adaptations of Carroll's book, which interpret it as a fairy tale. His aim was instead to make the story play out like an amoral dream. The film won the feature film award at the 1989 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Plot Alice is sitting by a brook, throwing rocks in the water. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira (1988 Film)
is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the manga, the plot differs considerably and does not include much of the last half of the manga, which continued publication for two years after the film's release. The soundtrack, which draws heavily from traditional Indonesian gamelan as well as Japanese noh music, was composed by Shōji Yamashiro and performed by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. ''Akira'' was released in Japan on Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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