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  1. Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is ...

  2. Jun 21, 2016 · Fantastic Planet was inspired by the 1957 book Oms en série, by the science-fiction writer Stefan Wul (born Pierre Pairault), one of a number of near-contemporaneous French sci-fi novels exploring dystopian alternative worlds (Pierre Boulle’s highly influential Planet of the Apes was another). The literal translation of the title is “Oms ...

  3. Apr 17, 2017 · Voiced by an all-star cast, including Jason Schwartzman, Susan Sarandon, Reggie Watts, and Lena Dunham, the film captures the joy and angst of adolescence through the prism of a disaster movie, charting the dynamics of friendship and young love at a high school in the aftermath of an earthquake. If the film’s visuals at times call to mind ...

  4. Jun 28, 2016 · Featured on our release of Fantastic Planet is a 1974 episode of the French television program Italiques, which offers a candid look at Topor, the eccentric artist behind this work. Topor was best known for his illustrations, but he also wrote novels (notably the 1964 book The Tenant, which was later adapted for the screen by Roman Polanski ...

  5. Sep 16, 2021 · 10. Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His latest feature, Cryptozoo, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance 2021, where it won the Innovator Award. It also premiered internationally at the Berlinale, where it received a special jury mention. His debut as a writer and director was the animated feature My Entire High School ...

  6. Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson United States, 2009 820 Fantastic Planet René Laloux France, 1973 1128 Farewell Amor Ekwa Msangi United States, 2020 1228 Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige China, 1993 Fårö Document Ingmar Bergman Sweden, 1970 Fårö Document 1979 Ingmar Bergman Sweden, 1979 1075 Fast Times at Ridgemont High Amy Heckerling ...

  7. Shop the Collection. Get info about new releases, sales, and our online publication, Current. Discover important classic and contemporary cinema from around the world. Browse our continuing series of Blu-ray and DVD editions, featuring award-winning supplemental features.

  8. Fantastic Planet René Laloux, 1973 Illustration by Eric Skillman. One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando, 1961 Illustration by Robert Hunt Lettering by Jon Contino. The Complete Lady Snowblood Toshiya Fujita, 1973, 1974 Illustration by Angie Wang. Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey, 1962 Illustration by Edward Kinsella. Blood Simple Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984

  9. Jun 28, 2021 · The Criterion Channel’s July 2021 Lineup. N ext month brings a bevy of femmes fatales, gumshoes, crooks, and con artists to the Channel with a twenty-seven-film spotlight on the neonoir thrillers that updated one of Hollywood’s richest genres for the post-studio-system era. Meanwhile, an extensive survey of art-house animation from around ...

  10. Nov 13, 2019 · Anachronistically recalling the lost dreamland of studio-era cartoons by the likes of Disney and the Fleisher brothers, Joy Street conjures a bright fantasy of singing Silly Symphony flowers and elastically personified animals, where everything vibrates and bends in strange harmony. The jungle and the plucky mouse together embody Pitt’s ...