Tag: Ralph Bakshi
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This 70s Fantasy Epic Is One of the Weirdest Animated Movies Ever Made
Let me just lay it out for you, Wizards is one of the most bizarre animated movies ever made. It’s a fantasy epic from Ralph Bakshi, the same filmmaker behind the original animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. But before Bakshi could touch Middle Earth, he had to carve out his own fantastical…
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Ralph Bakshi’s Best Animated Movies, Ranked
Ralph Bakshi is a director like no other. After working nearly a decade for Terrytoons and on shows like Rocket Robin Hood and the 1967 Spider-Man, he founded his own animated studio in 1969. Unsatisfied with the state of animation at the time, he began making movies to prove that animation could tackle adult issues…
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‘Cool World’ Is the Slimy, Adult Answer to ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ Best Watched After Midnight
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The…
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This Controversial ’70s Animated Film About a Drugged-Out Cat Is So Raunchy
In 1972, Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat – a cartoon filled with sex, drugs, and graphic violence – became not just the most successful animated movie released that year, but also the most successful independent animated movie of all time. How, in a time when animation was exclusively the domain of squeaky clean, family-friendly movies,…