Entry #57 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was AMÉLIE ET LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DES TUBES (2025) 📽️ She discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
This should have won the Oscar instead of K-POP DEMON HUNTERS
Entries #55-56 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 were SOUL (2020) and FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009) 📽️
Entry ##54 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was BIRDBOY: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (2015) 📽️ Three children decide to escape their island devastated by ecological catastrophe looking for a better life. Based on a graphic novel.
I enjoyed this much more on my second viewing, the English dub is terrible.
Entries #46-53 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 are all of Adam Elliott’s films. www.imdb.com/name/nm02541... Best one is MARY AND MAX. (2009) 📽️ starring Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman, which won the Grand Prize 🏆 at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
Entry #45 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was THE PEASANTS (2023) 📽️ A young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.
Entry #44 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS (2023) 📽️
Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Entry #43 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was THE MONKEY KING: UPROAR IN HEAVEN (1961) 📽️ Sun Wukong, the King of the Monkeys, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
Really enjoyed this one considering I had zero expectations going in.
Entry #41 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was CHINA IN FLAMES (1925) 📽️ It rallies popular support for the Soviet Union's alliance with China using caricatures of greedy imperialists.
Entry #42 was 25 OCTOBER, THE FIRST DAY (1968) 📽️ recounts the first day of the October Revolution
Entry #39 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was SOVIET TOYS (1924) 📽️ the first animated film made in the USSR. It portrays a gluttonous capitalist. Entry #40 was INTERPLANETARY REVOLUTION (1924) A tale about a Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet who fled earth.
Entry #38 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was BELLE (2021) 📽️ this is basically BEAUTY AND THE BEAST combined with READY PLAYER ONE but with none of the elements that make those two movies fun to watch. A disappointment.
Entry #37 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was FLEE (2021) 📽️ A man looks back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
Upon rewatch I think this might be the best film of 2021.
Entries #34-36 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 were CLAY PRIDE: BEING CLAY IN AMERICA (2001), THE FISH CURRY (2017), and SNOW JOB: THE MEDIA HYSTERIA OF AIDS (1986) 📽️ Even though the last one was from 1986 it’s extremely relatable to current events
Entry #33 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was TOWER (2016) 📽️ the untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting at the University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966
Entries #31 and #32 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 were THE ROAD TO PALESTINE (1985) and I AM FROM PALESTINE (2023) 📽️ two very emotional slices from the lives of refugees
Entry #30 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was GOODY DON GLEES! (2022) 📽️ by Atsuko Ishizuka - a coming-of-age story about the fearlessness of being young and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery.
Entries #28 and 29 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 were a couple of palate cleansers from Pixar to change my mood. COCO (2017) 📽️ and TURNING RED (2022) 📽️ are two comfort movies that usually do the trick
Entries #26 and #27 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 were LES TEMPS MORTS (1965) 📽️ and LES EACARGOTS (1966) 📽️ a pair of shorts by René Laloux in collaboration with Roland Topor
Entry #25 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was WOLF CHILDREN (2012) 📽️ which is about a woman who, after her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident must find ways to raise their werewolf son and daughter while keeping their trait hidden from society.
Entry #25 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was PEACE ON EARTH (1939) 📽️ one-reel MGM short directed by Hugh Harman and voiced by Mel Blanc about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals after human beings have gone extinct due to war. It was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize🤯
Entry #24 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was ERNEST & CELESTINE (2012) 📽️ which is a G - Rated version of Bonnie and Clyde that features an all-star cast including the last performance from Lauren Bacall. This was such a delightful experience i can’t recommend it highly enough ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Entry #23 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was HORACIO (2020) 📽️ a chilling short film about a young man who killed his friend. During his long prison sentence, he gradually forgets why he killed him.
Entry #22 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was RENAISSANCE (2006) 📽️ a unique black and white tech noir experiment starring Daniel Craig that took six years to make using motion capture. This is a must-see if you’re a fan of the medium but don’t watch it for the story. I’d play this on mute at parties.
Entry #21 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT (2018) 📽️ adapted from what was the first Elseworlds comic by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola from 1989. That book was excellent so this movie had big shoes to fill and it did an ok job to retell the story but it doesn’t compare to the OG
Entry #20 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR (2018) 📽️
This should be added to best-of lists when talking about heist films it’s so good!
Entry #19 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was LOVING VINCENT (2017) 📽️
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Gorgeous movie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½
Entry #18 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES (2018) 📽️ which retells how in 1930, Luis Buñuel comes to finance and shoot his newest film LAS HURDES (1943) 📽️ following the scandal from his last movie which drove him penniless.
Entry #17 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was TATSUMI (2011) 📽️ based on the life and stories of Manga writer Yoshihiro Tatsumi who revolutionised the art form with darker, more adult stories. The film animates several of his stories.
Entry #16 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was TO BUILD A FIRE (2016)📽️ This is the story of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon, based on a short story by Jack London.
Entry #15 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was the Oscar winning FLOW (2024) 📽️ I think I would have enjoyed this more if i hadn’t played STRAY (2022) 🎮 a bunch of times as it’s impossible to not make comparisons between the two.
Entry #14 for #AnimatedMarch ✍️🎬 was AZTEC BATMAN: CLASH OF EMPIRES (2025) 📽️ and a complete letdown of what could have been a cool Elseworlds story. I guess my expectations were too high considering the subject matter but I still hope it gets recognized by its intended demographic
