Top Ten Tuesdays

[nosferatu42]

Top Ten Adult Animations

Fantastic Planet

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Belladonna Of Sadness

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Svankmajer's Alice

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Grave Of The Fireflies
Plague Dogs
When The Wind Blows
Akira

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Fire And Ice
Princess Mononoke

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Perfect Blue

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I would say all of these films are adult in tone, a lot have PG ratings but that is due to animation being thought of as kids stuff.
I almost put in "Watership Down" as it is pretty traumatic stuff for many kids who grew up in that era.

Also i tried to focus on feature length films.

If i was including short features then top of my pile would be the Brothers Quay-

Street of crocodiles

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Truly nightmarish.

Also a shout out to David Lynch's "The Grandmother" that surges from Live action into animation and is a nightmarish delicacy.

[Demoncrat]

Great lists btw nos

[nosferatu42]

I think animation is not recognised enough in it's ability to create unique worlds.

Svankmajer's "Alice" and his shorts in general are really unsettling as are The Brothers Quay.
Also "Fantastic planet" and "Belladonna of Sadness" are startling pieces of work.

I've seen other shorts on the internet that are really twisted and disturbing but i can't recall what they are.

Sometimes they are a lot more unsettling because the animation process creates a distorted reality and the result taps in to the surreal and unconscious world of dreams.

[Demoncrat]

Very true. Paprika springs to mind etc.

[nosferatu42]

I've heard of that but never seen it, will have to give it a go.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I've heard of that but never seen it, will have to give it a go.

I bought Paprika at the same time as Tekkonkinkreet 10 years ago and probably haven't seen them since then! I thought they were both excellent films, but somehow haven't put them into regular circulation.

[Demoncrat]

Ooooh. Well it is Satoshi Kon

I bought the BD first chance I got. The comm is priceless as 3 very polite Japanese gentlemen discuss this very strange film. Christopher Nolan obviously thought so as Inception is a paaaale imitation of it. IMO

Recommended. Highly.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Ooooh. Well it is Satoshi Kon

I bought the BD first chance I got. The comm is priceless as 3 very polite Japanese gentlemen discuss this very strange film. Christopher Nolan obviously thought so as Inception is a paaaale imitation of it. IMO

Recommended. Highly.

They were amongst the first BDs I ever bought as well, though I don't think I've listened to the commentary. There probably won't be enough time to remedy that and decide if they are amongst my 10 favourite animated films (although it's safe to say they aren't), but I'll try and watch them in the next week.

On topic (more or less), I watched the Captain Underpants movie today and it's absolutely hilarious. I had avoided it because I thought it was something only for children, but it's not and something which should have cross generational appeal.

[Justin101]

A new remastered collectors edition of Perfect Blue was announced at MCMComicCon today by All the Anime!

[Demoncrat]

Ooooh II

SOLD.

All this and a new Noe film. What a year it's becoming ....