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[TRAIILER] In Czech director Jan Švankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristýna Kohoutová) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 3, 2024 - 8 comments

[TRAILER] Also known as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano. Karel Zeman's legendary Czechoslovak black-and-white science fiction adventure film, based on several works by Jules Verne. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 7, 2024 - 1 comment

[TRAILER] Stop-motion animator Ella Blake (Aisling Franciosi) struggles to control her demons after her overbearing mother suffers a stroke. She embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella's mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 24, 2024 - 3 comments

[TRAILER] Karel Zeman's 1962 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings of Gustave Doré. Original title: Baron Prášil. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 15, 2024 - 3 comments

Pokémon Concierge is an all-new stop-motion series from Netflix in the genre of cozy, slice-of-life animation. Set at an island resort, a young woman gets a job as a concierge helping Pokémon guests enjoy their visit. The first season has four short episodes totaling less than one hour of story. Trailer. Welcome to Pokémon Resort. Making Of. Studio Visit with Non. Theme Song by Mariya Takeuchi.
posted by Wobbuffet on Jan 1, 2024 - 5 comments

Joe Bob shows Phil Tippett's Mad God and Perfect Blue. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jul 7, 2023 - 2 comments

Perseus (Harry Hamlin), son of the Greek god Zeus (Laurence Olivier), grows up on a deserted island. His destiny is to marry Princess Andromeda (Judi Bowker), who will someday rule the city of Joppa. But as long as the satyr Calibos (Neil McCarthy) -- who uses a giant vulture to kidnap Andromeda's soul every night -- is alive, no one can marry her. Perseus travels to Joppa, where he must defeat Calibos and other mythological monsters to rescue Andromeda. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 22, 2022 - 14 comments

Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross) to summon them to the Land of the Living. [more inside]
posted by jzb on Nov 2, 2022 - 3 comments

Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. MAD GOD is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker. [more inside]
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 on Jun 19, 2022 - 10 comments

An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 10, 2020 - 11 comments

Kaoru is dejected when her friends' busy lives prevent them from attending their annual Hanami. Rilakkuma can't make pancakes without burning them. [more inside]
posted by batter_my_heart on Apr 24, 2019 - 9 comments

A boy named Kubo, skilled in storytelling and origami, must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. [more inside]
posted by boilermonster on Aug 22, 2016 - 19 comments

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. Stop-motion animated film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman.
posted by theodolite on Jan 27, 2016 - 18 comments

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 27, 2014 - 15 comments