Posts Tagged ‘part-animated’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

The Meaning of Life (1983)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone.

George of the Jungle (1997)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Leslie Mann | Thomas Haden Church | John Cleese | Richard Roundtree | Greg Cruttwell | Abraham Benrubi | Holland Taylor | Kelly Miller | John Bennett Perry | Michael Chinyamurindi | Abdoulaye NGom | Lydell M. Cheshier | Keith Scott | Spencer Garrett
Directors: Sam Weisman
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Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula’s lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.

King Kong (1933)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Jack Black | Adrien Brody | Thomas Kretschmann | Colin Hanks | Andy Serkis | Evan Parke | Jamie Bell | Lobo Chan | John Sumner | Craig Hall | Kyle Chandler | Mark Hadlow | Geraldine Brophy | David Denis
Directors: Bryan Singer | Peter Jackson
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Master showman Carl Denham has fallen on hard times due to the depression, and mounts an expedition to the mysterious Skull Island to find another showpiece. He takes along adventurer Jack Driscoll and the down-on-her-luck gorgeous blonde Ann Darrow with him to spice up the show. Arriving on the island, they discover it is home to gigantic beasts like dinosaurs, and ruling over all is Kong, a 30 foot tall gorilla. The natives kidnap Ann as a sacrifice for Kong, and the other crew members head into the dangerous island interior to rescue her.

The Miracle Maker (2000)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama
Countries: Russia | UK
Actors: Ralph Fiennes | Michael Bryant | Julie Christie | Rebecca Callard | James Frain | Richard E. Grant | Ian Holm | William Hurt | Anton Lesser | Daniel Massey | Tim McInnerny | Alfred Molina | Bob Peck | Miranda Richardson
Directors: Derek W. Hayes
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This animated feature-length life of Jesus boasts a stellar pedigree. Originally a BBC Wales production, it showcases the voices of some of Britain’s finest actors in any medium: Ralph Fiennes as a brooding and humble Jesus, Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene, Richard E. Grant as John the Baptist and David Thewlis as Judas. The lovely, flute-heavy score is by Oscar-winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty). And clearly a lot of expense has gone into the Claymation-like animation. But while it’s hard to find fault with the rendering of this familiar story—it is respectful and definitely done, you might say, by the Book—it would have been nice if there had been a tad more joy, if it walked a bit lighter in its sandals. As it is, all the characters seem consistently subdued, whether they are expressing angst, rage, terror or bliss—none of which is helped by the figures’ blank-eyed stares (if animators are becoming ever more sophisticated, why can’t they get rid of those creepy blank gazes once and for all?). Still, the weight of having such formidable actors play these familiar roles lends the production a certain credibility, and parents looking for good religious videos that won’t insult their kids’ intelligence will be thrilled.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Angela Lansbury | David Tomlinson | Roddy McDowall | Sam Jaffe | John Ericson | Bruce Forsyth | Cindy O'Callaghan | Roy Snart | Ian Weighill | Tessie O'Shea | Arthur Gould-Porter | Ben Wrigley | Reginald Owen | Cyril Delevanti | Rick Traeger
Directors: Robert Stevenson
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In August of 1940 in the English village of Pepperinge Eye, three cockney orphans are sent to live with Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), who is studying to become an apprentice witch. When she receives a letter from the Correspondence College of Witchcraft in London, she and the children fly on a bed (by way of a magic bedknob) to London to meet the headmaster of the defunct school, Emelius Brown (David Tomlinson). At a townhouse where Mr. Brown is staying, Miss Price finds half of a book called THE SPELLS OF ASTOROTH. For the other half, they deal with a shady character known as the Bookman (Sam Jaffe).

Stay Tuned (1992)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Aasen | John Ritter | Jeffrey Jones | David Tom | Heather McComb | Bob Dishy | Joyce Gordon | Eugene Levy | Erik King | Don Calfa | John B. Destry | Susan Blommaert | Maurice Verkaar | Ken Douglas | Gerry Nairn
Directors: Peter Hyams
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Roy and Helen Knable are having problems. Roy has become a couch potato and Helen resents this. After a fight, Spike, a high ranking devil, appears to offer Roy the ultimate satellite system. Roy signs without realising he has sold his soul. When he is sucked into the cable version of Hell, Helen is sucked in with him. They go through the satanic variety of cable TV where dying will consign them to damnation. Shows they find themselves on include: “Driving over Miss Daisy”; “Northern Overexposure” and “Autopsies of the Rich and Famous”. Roy must take charge and save them from the dangers of this cable Hell.

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Domenick John | Tom Savini | George Kennedy | Philip Dore | Kaltey Napoleon | Maltby Napoleon | Tyrone Tonto | Dorothy Lamour | Frank Salsedo | Holt McCallany | David Holbrook | Don Harvey | Dan Kamin | Dean Smith | Shirley Sonderegger
Directors: Michael Gornick
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Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by the Creep. The first is about a dime-store Native American that seeks vengeance on those who killed the store’s owners. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final tale is about a rich woman who accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from an affair with a male prostitute.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Green | Rip Torn | Eddie Kaye Thomas | Harland Williams | Anthony Michael Hall | Jackson Davies | Connor Widdows | John R. Taylor | Bob Osborne | George Gordon | Ron Selmour | David Neale | Scott Heindl | R. Nelson Brown | Allan Gray
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Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.