savage planet
kinda bummed i won't be able to make a screening of rene laloux's FANTASTIC PLANET at the moma tonight. might as well risk getting 86'd now and admit that i haven't seen this beautiful masterpiece yet. there. i said it. eric if you’re reading this you can ago ahead and make fun of me in a harsher tone than usual.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
i’m glad you haven’t
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
it’s way arty – i couldn’t pay attention past 10 minutes. i bet you most people going to the moma screening will only see it to say they’ve seen it.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
what the hell, Fantastic Planet is an awesome and strange film
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I guess it’s kind of arty but it’s not like some totally obfuscating Cremaster-type bullshit; it’s got a clear sci-fi narrative. Sure it’s slow and quiet, but that makes the psych-funk chase scenes that much more jarring. And the English dubbing is creepy as fuck. And the art is wonderful!!!!!!
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
so you guys can SUCK IT
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I’m just kidding, I love everyone
April 5th, 2009 at 4:53 am
i watched it again – english dub on youtube – and it was good. maybe i was thrown off by the french version with its weird scifi lingo on top of the subs. now my initial ill-informed opinion is on the internet. WATEVER.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
@eric: why not? so you can continue to make fun of me?
@anthony: dang, pretty cynical view, even for me! but i’m glad you gave it another shot and saw that it is beautiful and weird.
@hellen: hahaha. i love how you went through like a big chunk of the human emotion spectrum in your comments. i think i will love the movie. thanks so much for burning it for me! can’t wait to watch it
April 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
it’s very much a document of its time–the sort of thing you’d see on Euro cable access when you were 15 at 4AM.
an old boyfriend actually hooked up the stereo to the teevee to tape the music and make me a mixtape (which I wish I still had). I had no idea it was another train on which to jump. thanks a lot, sfmoma.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING, I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT SAVAGE DRAGON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_V91x2zN0
April 8th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Ha! I’ve never actually watched the Savage Dragon cartoon before and even I give Larsen shit for it.
So is there actually a plot to Savage Planet? There wasn’t an apparent one from that trailer.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
@nico: what a sweet mixtape! there is something about it that seems to capture a period of our lives…and i haven’t even watched it yet!
@ryan: WOW. wonder what erik larsen feels when he sees clips like that
@biggle: it’s pretty much a product of its times. yeah, i think there is sort of a plot, but probably a loose one