Directors you'd like to see make an animated film

Directors you'd like to see make an animated film Oct 8, 2020 3:02:35 GMT Reynard likes this

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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 8, 2020 3:02:35 GMT

Oct 8, 2020 2:48:09 GMT Reynard said:

Oct 8, 2020 2:29:27 GMT Fox in the Snow said:

Personally think it's one of his best, quite restrained and minimal. A good companion piece to Fires on the Plain which I also really liked. True, usually get at least something out of everything I've seen from him. Tetsuo III: The Bullet Man being the only weak link so far.

I haven't seen Tetsuo III either, it got really poor reviews when released and then I just never got around to it. A Snake of June and Vital were the most difficult ones from the ones I've seen, couldn't really get to them at all, though "Snake" had amazing cinematography.

I need to re-watch his 90s works again, haven't seen most of them for 15-20 years, and catch up with some newer stuff after that. Tsukamoto seems to have lost a lot of his audience. No one seems to talking about his new films and they aren't that well distributed either. I wasn't expecting much from Fires on the Plain, in big part since it sort of came and went and no one seemed to care, but for me it is nearly a masterpiece.

A Snake in June and Vital are among my favorites. I love the strange voyeuristic tone of Snake and that lo-fi steel blue cinematography is stunning. I like the serene poetic nature of Vital.

I recently rewatched a good chunk of his work. Only ones I've not seen are Hiroku and Nightmare Detective 2.

Gemini, I haven't seen for longest time, but it's just got a Blu-ray release, so I'm looking forward to catching up on that as I remember liking it a lot, very theatrical with an interesting color palette.

Fires on the Plain is amazing. Brutal, disorienting and surreal. Can stand alongside the original Ichikawa film IMO.