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Sometimes, though, those narratives can get gloomy very, very gloomy.
He made two movies based on novels byRichard Adams, the second one beingThe Plague Dogs.
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It’s about two dogs escaping from a lab and being chased as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.
As far as the medium goes, it’s one ofthe best movies of the 1970s.
Watership Downis aviolent, carefully paced study of authoritarianism, survival, and politics, but with rabbits.
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It’s a simple gimmick on paper, but it works like a charm.
Not exactly the kind of stuff you see in a Disney flick.
Brilliantly surrealistic and stunningly animated, it’s one of the best anime films ever made.
During the ’90s, though, he started working on his directing debut,Mad God.
It’s a movie that’s guaranteed to become a cult classic in not too many years.
Nevertheless, those who love uber-dark animation simply have to check this one out at some point.
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His second directing effort and his first (and thus far only) animated movie was co-directed withDuke Johnson.
It’sAnomalisa, a wild trip of a movie full of Kaufman’s signature blend ofexistential dread and absurdist surrealism.
However, few anti-war films with child protagonists are as effective as this one.
Perhaps it’s because it’s so richly constructed and made with such emotional rawness.
Perhaps it’s because of how terrifyingly timely its themes feel.
It’s likely because of all of that and more.
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