Tag: drawn animation

Pelikan Blue
(Kék Pelikan)

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Post date November 12 2023
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Pelikan Blue (Kék Pelikan) Director – László Csáki – 2023 – Hungary – Cert. none – 79m **** How three friends wanting to travel to the West after Hungary opened up in 1985 stumbled onto a lucrative scam forging rail tickets – innovative documentary employing animation premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th […]

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Animation Features Movies

Suzume
(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
lit. Suzume’s
Locking Up)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 14 2023
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(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
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Locking Up)
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Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2022 – Japan – Cert. PG – 122m ***1/2 Aided by a man turned into a mobile, talking, three-legged chair, a schoolgirl must prevent giant, freak weather ‘worms’ from devastating Japan with earthquakes – anime feature is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, April 14th Prompted by a […]

Animation Features Movies

Weathering With You
(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 3 2023
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(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2019 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 112m ***1/2 A runaway teenage boy in a constantly raining Tokyo falls for a girl who can replace rain with sunshine – Makoto Shinkai’s feature returns to cinemas for one day only on Wednesday, April 5th, ahead of the release of Shinkai’s new […]

Animation Features Movies

Your Name
(Kimi No Na Wa,
君の名は)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 29 2023
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(Kimi No Na Wa,
君の名は)

Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2016 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 106m ***** Do you know what it feels like for a girl? Urban teenage boy and countryside girl repeatedly swap bodies overnight, as fate draws them together through a meteor strike – Makoto Shinkai’s breakout animation returns to cinemas for one day only […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Ninjababy

Director – Ingvild Sve Flikke – 2021 – Norway – Cert. 15 tbc – 103m ***** An artist draws constantly, her life punctuated with animated inserts, as she finds she is pregnant with a ninjababy – out in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 10th. Also free to watch on All4 for […]

Animation Dance Movies Shorts

Boxballet
(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)

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Post date June 17 2021
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(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)
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Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Flee
(Flugt)

Director – Jonas Poher Rasmussen – 2021 – Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 83m **** In a series of interviews, a gay man now living in Denmark tries to explain his experience of fleeing Afghanistan – in cinemas from Friday, February 11th Like The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017) and The Swallows Of […]

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Flee
(Flugt)

On being a refugee FleeDirected by Jonas Poher RasmussenCertificate 15, 83 minutesReleased 11 February Review for Reform magazine, February 2022. There have been animated films about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan before, including The Breadwinner (reviewed in Reform, June 2018), but Flee is different. It covers not only the experience of fleeing your home […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Volere Volare
(I Want To Fly)

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Post date May 8 1992
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(I Want To Fly)

Directors – Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti – 1991 – Italy – Cert. 15 – 94m ***** A sexually insecure man turns into an animated cartoon character as he tries to start a relationship with the woman of his dreams. PLOT The shy Maurizio (Maurizio Nichetti) works dubbing old black and white cartoons while his more […]