| Registered: October 19, 2008 |  Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | It not like they don't fit in considering they have documentarys, music video antholgys and concerts. Those are not standard narrative films and the video anthology would not be considered a film at all. It would add more diversity to them. A foringn cartoon would be great. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's a question of rights. They would need to acquire the rights to a film they feel belongs in the collection. You can give suggestions at their Facebook page and they might respond. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Cause most of the important cartoon films are Disney. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | They did release Akira back in the laserdisc days. |
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| Registered: October 19, 2008 | | Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
They did release Akira back in the laserdisc days. I was wondering if they released anything on Laser. Disney does have a lot of important cartoons but there are other things out there. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think "animated" would fit your subject title better.
When I read "cartoon", I think "Looney Toons" |
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| Registered: April 4, 2007 |  Posts: 883 |
| | Posted: | | | | Obviously any Disney, Looney Tunes, Ghibli or Hanna-Barbera is out because of legal reasons. Wouldn't make sense anyways as most of these get decent releases by their studios.
Now, having said that, I still think you're right though. There should be animated movies. What about things like The Iron Giant, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Watership Down, any Lotte Reiniger film, Animal Farm, Gulliver's Travels, Plague Dogs or Allegro non Troppo are definitly worth being covered. The UK Masters of Cinema series apparently realised this and brought use three films by Rene Laloux. One of them, Fantastic Planet, will even see a Blu-ray release soon. | | | | - Jan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 252 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synner_man: Quote:
They did release Akira back in the laserdisc days. Yeah, IIRC Akira was the only animated production in the Criterion catalog. (who's rights were lost or abandoned to Pioneer for DVD, then fell to Bandai on Blu) Though it probably doesn't count, during that time Criterion was closely linked with HomeVision (mostly VHS) and Voyager - and those two did have a few more animated titles. I think those labels have since gone their independent ways, tho all seem to still be linked with Janus and Image. As to why Criterion doesn't do animation, the answer doesn't seem to be very clear. IIRC it's been something Jon Mulvaney has been asked occasionally, and the issues seem to be in part low sales, and the need for an expensive dub to get even those sales. I'd imagine licensing rights cost is certainly a factor - in the above Anime example it almost certainly was, given how it was a relatively well known title. |
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