Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film.
Examples of arthouse animated films
[edit]20th century
[edit]- El Apóstol (1917; now considered a lost film)[1]
- Fantasia (1940)[2][3][4][5]
- Neighbours (1952)[6]
- Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)[7]
- Invention for Destruction (1958)[7]
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)[7]
- Game of Angels (1964)[8]
- The Glass Harmonica (1968)[9]
- Fritz the Cat (1972)[10][11]
- Belladonna of Sadness (1973)[12]
- Fantastic Planet (1973)[13][14]
- Johnny Corncob (1973)[7]
- Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)[15]
- Allegro Non Troppo (1976)[16]
- Watership Down (1978)[7]
- Asparagus (1979)[8]
- Bubble Bath (1979)[17][18]
- Tale of Tales (1979)[19]
- Son of the White Mare (1981)[20][21][22][14]
- Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)[8]
- The Plague Dogs (1982)[7]
- Angel's Egg (1985)[23][14]
- The Pied Piper (1986)[14]
- The Brave Little Toaster (1987)[24][25]
- Wicked City (1987)[26]
- Akira (1988)[27]
- Alice (1988)[28][14]
- Only Yesterday (1991)[29][30]
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)[31]
- Faust (1994)[7]
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)[32]
- Perfect Blue (1997)[33]
- Princess Mononoke (1997)[34]
- Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)[35]
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)[36]
21st century
[edit]- Millennium Actress (2001)[28]
- Waking Life (2001)[37]
- Spirited Away (2001)[38][39]
- The Triplets of Belleville (2003)[40][41]
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)[42]
- Mind Game (2004)[43][14]
- Paprika (2006)[28][14]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)[44]
- Persepolis (2007)[28][45]
- Waltz with Bashir (2008)[28]
- Coraline (2009)[46]
- Mary and Max (2009)[28]
- The Secret of Kells (2009)[47]
- A Town Called Panic (2009)[7]
- Chico and Rita (2011)[28]
- From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)[48]
- The Rabbi's Cat (2011)[7]
- The King of Pigs (2011)[7]
- Consuming Spirits (2012)[7][49]
- It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)[50]
- Boy and the World (2013)[51]
- Song of the Sea (2014)[52][53]
- Anomalisa (2015)[54]
- In This Corner of the World (2016)[55]
- My Life as a Courgette (2016)[52]
- The Red Turtle (2016)[55][41]
- Seoul Station (2016)[55]
- Tower (2016)[56][7]
- The Breadwinner (2017)[57][53]
- Have a Nice Day (2017)[58]
- Loving Vincent (2017)[52]
- Isle of Dogs (2018)[59]
- The Wolf House (2018)[7]
- I Lost My Body (2019)[60]
- Bombay Rose (2019)[61]
- Wolfwalkers (2020)[62]
- Bestia (2021)[63]
- Boxballet (2021)[63]
- Cryptozoo (2021)[64][65]
- Flee (2021)[66][67]
- The Windshield Wiper (2021)[63]
- Mad God (2022)[68][14]
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)[69][70]
- Unicorn Wars (2022)[71]
- The Boy and the Heron (2023)[72]
- Distortion (2023)[73]
- Letter to a Pig (2023)[74]
- Ninety-Five Senses (2023)[74]
- Our Uniform (2023)[74]
- Pachyderme (2023)[74]
- Robot Dreams (2023)[75][76]
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)[77]
- Flow (2024)[78]
Notable arthouse animators
[edit]- Walerian Borowczyk[8]
- Suzan Pitt[8]
- Jiri Barta[14]
- Bruno Bozzetto[16]
- Sylvain Chomet[79][41]
- Gene Deitch[80]
- Michaël Dudok de Wit[55][41]
- Adam Elliot[81]
- Ari Folman[82]
- Don Hertzfeldt[83][84][43]
- Marcell Jankovics[85][86]
- Andrei Khrzhanovsky[87]
- Satoshi Kon[82]
- Yoji Kuri[88][89][90]
- René Laloux[13]
- Richard Linklater[91][92]
- Hayao Miyazaki[34]
- Tomm Moore[62]
- Yuri Norstein[19]
- Michel Ocelot[93]
- Stephen and Timothy Quay[94][95][96]
- Joanna Quinn[63]
- Martin Rosen[7]
- Dash Shaw[64]
- Jan Švankmajer[97]
- Osamu Tezuka[98]
- Masaaki Yuasa[43]
- Karel Zeman[99]
See also
[edit]- Studio Ghibli
- Cartoon Saloon
- Independent animation
- Adult animation
- Cult film
- Experimental animation
- Rotoscoping
- Modernist film
- Minimalist film
- Indiewood
References
[edit]- ^ The First Animated Feature Ever No Longer Exists|Collider
- ^ Disney: 10 Movies That Broke Away From The Fairytale Formula - Screen Rant
- ^ 10 Most Experimental Disney Movies That Didn't Follow the Formula - Screen Rant
- ^ 10 Best Animated Fantasy Movies (According To IMDb) - Screen Rant
- ^ 10 Obscure Shorts Only Die-Hard Disney Fans Have Seen - Screen Rant
- ^ Neighbours: The NFB's Second Oscar Winner - NFB Blog
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n The Criterion Channel's July 2021 Lineup|The Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ a b c d e Pioneers in film: the art-house films that shaped popular culture|The Independent
- ^ Soyuzmultfilm Most Famous Characters|HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ANIMATION
- ^ 'Crumb' - The Washington Post
- ^ Cat in tune with times - Reeling Back
- ^ "The 10 Best Animated Films You've Probably Never Seen". ScreenRant. 1 July 2019.
- ^ a b "10 Essential Arthouse Sci-Fi Films". Film School Rejects. 1 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i 10 Best Arthouse Animated Movies, Ranked|Collider
- ^ 6 Beloved Soviet and Russian Cartoons - The Moscow Times
- ^ a b Chris Hicks: New DVDs for the art-house crowd - Deseret News
- ^ Habfürdő in the 2020-2021 Season of Classic Films Catalogue|Gyorgy Kovasznai
- ^ COAGULOPATH
- ^ a b Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation on JSTOR
- ^ Son of the White Mare|Cinema St Louis
- ^ Sone of the White Mare: One of 2020's best animated movies was... - Polygon
- ^ Restored Hungarian Cult Classic 'Son Of The White Mare' Will Get U.S. Theatrical Release - Cartoon Brew
- ^ 10 Arthouse Anime For Picky Viewers|CBR
- ^ 'BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER' POPS UP AT THEATER TO AID LALLAPALOOZA - Deseret News
- ^ THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER (1987) (***)|Animation World Network
- ^ 10 of the Best Asian Arthouse Horror Movies For a Visually Terrifying Halloween|Collider
- ^ Why the pioneering Japanese anime 'Akira' is still relevant 30 years later - The Washington Post
- ^ a b c d e f g C What's On: The Criterion Channel's July 2021 Lineup - Flixist
- ^ ONLY YESTERDAY, Isao Takahata's Forgotten Masterpiece, 30 Years Later - Film Inquiry
- ^ Only Yesterday - Buried Treasure - Anime News Network
- ^ Animation World Magazine Vol.3 Issue 8 November 1998 (pg.5)
- ^ Ghost in the Shell|EW.com
- ^ 10 Arthouse Horror Films You Should Watch - CBR
- ^ a b Bloomsbury Collections - Princess Mononoke - Understanding Studio Ghibil's Monster Princess
- ^ Animated and underrated/The Dissolve
- ^ "It's time we recognize The Prince of Egypt as the greatest animated movie of all time". SYFY Official Site. 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ^ Dream Is Destiny: Waking Life - Animation World Network
- ^ Spirited Away and Anime in the American Cinema Market|Contemporary Japan
- ^ Disney and Studio Ghibli's long, ugly history, explained - Polygon
- ^ The Triplets of Belleville - DVD Talk
- ^ a b c d The French Institute Alliance Française Presents the Sixth Annual ANIMATION FIRST Festival Runs January 27- January 29|Broadway World
- ^ 50 key anime films|Sight and Sound|BFI
- ^ a b c Criterion Channel Is Putting A Huge Focus On Animation, Releasing 31 Features In July on Cartoon Brew
- ^ Art House Powerhouse Directors - Paste
- ^ France takes art toons seriously - Variety
- ^ "5 Artsy Horror Movies That Are Overhyped (& 5 That Are Actually Brilliant)". ScreenRant. 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
- ^ The Quarantine Stream: Start Taking Animation Seriously With the Year-Best 'Wolfwalkers'|/Film
- ^ Gkids toons in to arthouse animation - Variety
- ^ 10 Best Stop Motion Films, According to Letterboxd - Screen Rant
- ^ Frankenweenie & 9 More Of The Best Black & White Animated Films (According To IMDb)|Screen Rant
- ^ Brazilian Animation: Art, Commerce and Government Backing - Variety
- ^ a b c "Euro Animated Films Offer "Darker" Art House Alternative to Hollywood, Exec Says". The Hollywood Reporter. 15 December 2017.
- ^ a b ‘Breadwinner’ Firm WestEnd Boards Animated Feature ‘Lamya’s Poem’ - Variety
- ^ Our Favorite Stop-Motion Animated Films...and Why They Blew Us Away - School of Motion
- ^ a b c d "Animated Movies To Look Forward To". www.amctheatres.com.
- ^ Tower's Unique Visual Style Focuses on Victims, Not Violence|25YL
- ^ Arthouse|Honolulu Star-Advertiser
- ^ Have a Nice Day, Chinese gangster animation, blocked in France - BBC News
- ^ This week in art-house cinema: animation, tribal films, opera and 'The Walking Dead' |Tulsa World
- ^ The 20 Best Indie Animation Features of the 2010s - Zippy Frames
- ^ Lodge, Guy (29 August 2019). "Film Review: 'Bombay Rose'".
- ^ a b Which arthouse films stood out at the autumn festivals?|Features|Screen
- ^ a b c d Arthouse Advisory: This year’s Oscar-nominated animated films are creative and compelling, but also are for adult eyes - TheBurg
- ^ a b 10 exciting arthouse movies coming in 2021 - i-D
- ^ Cryptozoo review: Dash Shaw's animated adventure is strictly for adults - Polygon
- ^ Flee, Hand of God, Benedetta, Citizen Ashe At The Specialty Box Office - Deadline
- ^ In 'Flee,' an Afghan refugee's tale in vivid animation - ABC News
- ^ Oscars: ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ could lead stop-motion renaissance in Best Animated Feature - GoldDerby
- ^ 'Marcel the Shell' Is The First Indie Kids' Movie That Matters - Fatherly
- ^ Review: A big heart and one googly eye in 'Marcel the Shell' - ABC News
- ^ How Spain's animation sector became a force to be reckoned with|Features|Screen Daily
- ^ Miyazaki's 'Boy and the Heron' Animated Films Hit Toronto Film Festival - Variety
- ^ "Studio Moonchalk: Films, Comic Dubs, and Games: Distortion - A RPG Maker Animated Film". Studio Moonchalk. 2024-11-15. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ^ a b c d Montgomery Herald Events - OSCAR SHORTS - ANIMATION (February 24)
- ^ KSL Movie Show review: 'Robot Dreams' is a beautiful, simple film
- ^ How Ewha Womans University is keeping indie cinema alive on campus - Korea JoongAng Daily
- ^ Animated Spider-Man back with 'arthouse' sequel to Oscar winner - Forbes India
- ^ Animated adventures flowing through OKC theaters in January - Oklahoma City Free Press
- ^ The Unique Art of French Animation: A Primer|LBBOnline
- ^ Turning Picture Books into Art House Films: The Story of Weston Woods | WIRED
- ^ Criterion Channel Animated Movies Summer Additions - Animated Film Network
- ^ a b The Criterion Channel's July 2021 Lineup Includes Wong Kar Wai, Neo-Noir, Art-House Animation & More|The Film Stage
- ^ Thielman, Sam (24 November 2016). "The Simpsons Thanksgiving marathon: the 25 best episodes to gorge on". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "Arthouse Movie Listings December 12–18, 2012". SF Weekly. 12 December 2012.
- ^ Son of the White Mare|Cinema St Louis
- ^ Criterion Channel Programs 31 Art-House Animation Films for July|Animation Magazine
- ^ Drawing the Iron Curtain - Google Books (pg.20)
- ^ Anime - Google Books (pg.87)
- ^ The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition - Google Books
- ^ Pioneering Japanese Art-House Animation Creator Yoji Kuri Dies at 96; Artist Instrumental in Forming Japan Animation Association - The Japan News
- ^ Art House Powerhouse Directors - Paste
- ^ Dream Is Destiny: Waking Life - Animation World Network
- ^ Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times - Google Books (ch. "France" )
- ^ 'The Quay Brothers in 35mm': Christopher Nolan Honors Haunting, Stop-Motion Cinema|Collider
- ^ Quay Brothers Discuss Collaborating with Christopher Nolan, Thematic Threads, and More|The Film Stage
- ^ First Look At Lesbian Werewolf Romance 'Jack and Diane'; Brothers Quay Doing Animated Sequences - The Playlist
- ^ Plunge Through the Looking Glass With the Scariest 'Alice' Ever - KQED
- ^ Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan's Greatest Animator - Google Books (pgs."Coming to Toei")
- ^ New to Streaming: Wong Kar Wai, No Sudden Move, Summer of Soul, Neo-Noir, and More|The Film Stage
External links
[edit]- Art-House Animation - Criterion Channel Teaser trailer on Vimeo
- The 100 best animated movies: the best arty movies
