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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.film/post/1212409

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| Genre: | Animation, Family | | MPAA Rating: | PG | | Runtime | 01:32:00 | | Release Date (USA): | September 15, 2023 | | Director: | Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon | | Main Cast: | Stephen Fry, Marion Cotillard, Daisy Ridley, Matt Berry | | Summary: | Famous artist, engineer and inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court where, with the help of the princess Marguerite de Nevarre, he can experiment freely. |

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/6938138

PLOT: Mahito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world.

Release Date: The film is set to release in USA/CANADA on December. Imax release date is December 8th.

(I've put the MovieSnob LinkMonkey™ to work temporarily here at [email protected] and here's what it dug up for today -- @[email protected])

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Alternate Google-free link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RfsoP--5_NM

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Even as a kid watching the original Terrytoons cartoons I couldn't help noticing there was always something strange about 'em. They wiggled, wobbled and warped like no other cartoons I'd seen! And here's one of the main reasons why: animator Jim Tyer.

Enjoy Vincent Alexander's tribute to the rubbery animations of Jim Tyer over at CartoonBrew!

The movie in question is 2022's Marlowe. The director is Neil Jordan, who in the past has directed such memorable and powerful cinema as Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. The starring cast features Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange with supporting roles by Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Colm Meaney and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The screenplay was written by The Departed's William Monahan, adapted from The Black-Eyed Blonde by author John Banville. And to top it all off, the titular character is the iconic private eye, Raymond Chandler's Philip (with one "L") Marlowe.

That's an awful lot of firepower they're packin'.

And this movie is a dud. A disappointment. A damp squib. It doesn't sizzle. It doesn't smolder. There's no chemistry between any of the characters, even though two of the leading roles say they want to bed the lead. If it weren't an Irish production through and through, I'd go so far as to say something got lost in translation. Maybe somethind did—Ireland isn't Los Angeles of the late 1930s. The best I can say about this film is it has its moments.

Neeson is just plain stiff despite him being theoretically capable of pulling off the role. Kruger, Lange and Huston are, unfortunately, forced. Meaney is the only convincing one of the bunch, save Cumming and his introductory scene. If only the entire movie had the pace, repartee and style of this scene, it would have been a winner, or at least been saved.

If you haven't seen it, don't worry. You haven't missed anything.

With all the present-day ugliness continuing far too long, here's something to remind us of the beauty that can be created.

From 1981, here is Roman Kachanov's beautifully animated children's story, The Mystery of the Third Planet, in its original form. With subtitles, yet!

Based on one of the Alisa Selezneva series of children's books by screenplay writer Kir Bulychev, Kachanov's film is beautfully animated using traditional cel animation techniques. No made-for-TV 4-frames-per-second job is this, the animation is technically spectacular. While parts are most likely rotoscoped, most of the film is not, demonstrating the grasp Kachanov and crew had on the art of movement.

Natalya Orlova's art direction and character design is a wonderful mix of Heinz Edelmann and eastern european design of the time (being mid-to late 1970s when production started). In my less-than-humble opinion, it is always refreshing seeing a style that isn't merely a Disney or Anime retread.

And dig that crazy sov-synth soundtrack by composer Aleksandr Zatsepin, (from the Wikipedia article) often described as a milestone in Soviet electronic music.

Alternate Google-free Link: https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=DBOVmZgLsxk&t=206&iv_load_policy=1

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2259501

An animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon. Despite appearances the animation is not created on a blackboard but rather on paper, the blackboard effect achieved by shooting each of the 700 drawings onto negative film. The title is a reference to the “fantasmograph”, a mid-19th century variant of the magic lantern that projected ghostly images on to surrounding walls.

(The Public Domain Review)

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Just saw this very movie posted over at Full Movies on YouTube, but—gasp!—colorized!

So these new AI Ted Turners wanna play with their new tech toys, well, that's all fine and dandy…but leave the noir in Film Noir, thank you. For your viewing pleasure, in the original and glorious black and white, just like the newspaper they're printin', the great Humphrey Bogart in Deadline – U.S.A.!

EXTRA! EXTRA! Link: the original trailer in 1080HD!

Today's kind of a sad day here at c/[email protected].

"I Hate Pink Floyd." That was the phrase famously scrawled on Johnny Rotten's t-shirt when he first "auditioned" for The Sex Pistols way back in 1975. And it was also true for me as a kid, cemented (much) later by Roger Waters' masturbatory epic "cry for the rich kid" The Wall. I also hate Pink Floyd. But I digress.

Ian Emes, experimental animator most famous for the work done for Pink Floyd (and many others in the music business) had died, as best as I can nail it down, July 23 of this year. And that is very sad.

When I was a MovieSnob in training, I saw (EDIT 16:00:32, CEST) Emes' French Windows on the big screen, the opening short of an all-animation festival (including Will Vinton's Closed Mondays and the Fleischers' Superman, The Mechanical Monsters!). And Kid MovieSnob was impressed. So, regardless of being considered the de facto Pink Floyd animator, thanks from the bottom of my icy heart, Mr. Emes. You at least showed me what animation could be.

Bonus-Because-I-Love-You Link: Emes' French Windows in HD, instead of CB's 360px linked video.

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Since I'm on the same page as director/storyboard artist Elaine Bogan regarding all things Pee-Wee, I'll forgive her for liking dragons and trolls a lot…I mean, a lot. Bordering on unhealthy "a lot."

R.I.P. Paul Reubens.