Tuesday, February 20, 2007

i saw these by accident

Working at my job i screen films for class's quite often. Which sometimes can be good and rarely can be either bad or strange. Like i had to watch videodrome before noon once that is an experence in it self.
But recently or well in the past week I've seen two really good films that i most likely would not have seen other wise.
The first one and one i saw most recently. is Black Orpheus a film from 1959 that is a modern reatelling of the story of Orpheus. Well actually I'm not sure really what it's based on but who cares really. I think the begining is a little slow and i wasn't as into it until it really started to get going but while your waiting to get into it. you can at least look at the beautiful cinematography that has a very glarious color pallet. I also think the characters work really well and the whole film. It also won both the palm d'or at Canne and best foreign film at the oscars. That's not half bad or anything.
Next is Hoppity goes to town. If you havn't seen this just stop reading and go get it don't ask questions. This film done by Fleisher studios who in there day were as popular in animation studio as disney. Fleisher is responisable for Popeye, Betty bop, Those awesome superman shorts, and some other stuff that was really really good. The animation in Hoppity goes to town is amazing and some of the sequences like a skyscrapper being built is awesome.
This actually should be cheap to find considering it is public domain. Regardless this is a treasure not just for animation history but film history as well being the last film from the Fleisher studio and the one that ended them. But the detail in the film is planned out and well orchestrated.

I would say see both cause there both worth it and entirely differnt from one another. so i guess not in the same night perhaps.

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