Oh, thanks for the list of animated films, Simon. n.n I saw a couple of those on a lot of journals at FA, but I never got to look up some of the titles on everyone's lists. This really helps.
Foreign animated films from Japan= Anime :? Guess I cant help much.
Well the reason why I rule out 'Anime' is because I feel that I have watched enough of it. I've pretty much seen all kinds of rare and new titles from Robot Carnival to intant classics like Steamboy, as well as any movies involving Ghibli. Like American animated productions, its' become a bit too common for me and I wish to give other countries more of chance. :P It really helps to narrow the list down. ^^'
I see I'm not the only who enjoys both Rescuers movies.
Certainly not. :D I enjoy them as well, and there are many critics out there who still praise Down Under for being Disney's first successful sequals as wells as one that is concidered to be better than its' original (honestly, I like both equally ^^). I do wish Disney would hurry up and make 'special edition' DVDs out of them already or at least put them on Blu-Ray.
As for non-anime foreign films, I think you could check into The Triplets of Belleville on Simon's list. It's a French animation that has some very...interesting concepts. I must warn you than it is fairly satirical of America, but it's nonetheless highly amusing, and is a film with almost no voice acting, mostly sound effects and music.
Mm, I have been hearing good things about that film. I'll have to look that up and take a look at it, thanks for reminding me. :P Also, don't worry about the 'satrical America' concept. I'm well aware that the country I live in isn't exactly the 'best and innocent' nation it claims to be and is in need of a good joke here and there (don't get me wrong, I still love my country, its' just that, like other countries, it is in need of some find tuning :wink:)
Plus, you're talking to a guy who collects wordwide propoganda of all kinds out of curiousity and amusement. I've pretty much grown accustomed to different countries and religions mud-slinging rants at each other. XD
I dunno if you could consider Arabian Knights on the list, as it was finished and finally by Disney after a 20-year production journey that started in India I think. There are actually two versions, the original, and the Miramax release, which is considered inferior but has voice acting. The movie itself is entertaining, so I'd recommend a look into it.
I have only seen 'The Thief and the Cobbler', which I am guessing is the inferior and dubbed down version of the original according to the research I dug up on it. When I first saw it, it did seem to 'skip' from random scenes and events with some odd dialogue added in (especially from the POV of the thief).
I also don't understand what's going on with Miramax. As of late, they seem to have made it their policy to buy rights to animated movies from other countries only to bring them over to America to butcher them. They made a bit of a mess with the Jungledyret Hugo dubs. >.>
I'll have to take another look at this film (the original version) and see what I can make of it. It doesn't look like anything that will keep my interest, but I think I'll give it a chance.
Finally, I will also talk about on the list is Light Years, another French animation, but this is one is a LOT more trippy, and has a lot of suggestive and complex themes going on within it (Rest assured though, that is has nothing on Neon Genesis Evangelion). Still, if you're in to Sci-Fi and want a...unique experience, you could check that one out.
Oh, so it was from France! I used to own a VHS copy of that movie before I recently sold my whole VHS collection to make way for DVDs. I did enjoy the sci-fi/fantasy art as well as the musicical score. ^^ The story was also pretty epic with the war between surviving races of culture and machines. (Got to love time travel to solve all of your problems in the end. XD)
Still, I think this movie was just a once-over for me, even for a sci-fi nut like myself. For what it was, it was alright, but nothing I would own on DVD.
Edit: And I just have to say it, Oh my God, Little Nemo!
Now that is another film that has recently crept back into my memory. I remembered watching that when I was kid and was both amazed and freaked out by it. I always had a hard time telling if it was either American animation or japanese animated of some type, but I heard it was a collaboration of both. I truely need to this again. :D
I can recommend both "Persepolis" and "Waltz with Bashir." They are both very serious, heavy films that deal with war (and they're both autobiographical, weirdly enough), so I might not watch them right in a row, but they are both very good films.
I've seen Persepolis, but I have never heard of "Waltz with Bashir". From what I have dug up on it, it looks like a truely engaging film. I love the art style and it sounds like it has good music too. I look forward to seeing this as well. Thanks for the info. :3
I've enjoyed a lot of the British films from the animation meme Simon posted, though I don't know if you count those as "foreign," as a lot of people don't count films from countries whose native language is English.
Well being that the definition of "foreign" is usually associated with anything that is of a separate governement or nation, I'd say it would still count. After all, I am looking for anything outside the US. :P
"Allegro Non Troppo" is an interesting film, kind of a take-off on "Fantasia," though not really humorous to the point of being a parody. Like "Fantasia," it consists of several shorts set to classical and is kind of on the "arty" side.
Oh, now this one I really must see. I just viewed a sample of of it and I like what I see. I can't wait to watch the rest of its' animated skits. Thanks, again, for the update. :D