Animation

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.Read More »

The movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late ’60s and the early ’70s.Read More »

A couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.Read More »

Hoshi no Koe ~The Voices of Distant Stars~, is an OVA that uses full 2D and 3D digital animation. It is a story of long distance love bridged by mail messages. Set in 2046, resulting from the discovery of the ruins of an alien civilization on Mars, man has made great leaps in technology and is planning to send an expedition into space in the following year. Nagamine Mikako and Terao Noboru are both junior high school students. While Noboru will be entering senior high next winter, Mikako is selected to join the space expedition.
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When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the “all-powerful” wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.Read More »

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Chicago Reader wrote:
The Breadwinner is a moving, visually impressive lesson in modern Afghan history
Posted By Ben Sachs on 01.26.18 at 12:26 PM

When I went to see The Breadwinner at the AMC River East a couple months ago, I was the only one in the theater; when I planned to write about it a few days later, the film had already left town. I’m glad to see that the Gene Siskel Film Center has brought it back for a weeklong engagement, so that more Chicagoans can catch up with this inventive and informative film. (That it was recently nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature should help drum up attendance.) Read More »

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.Read More »

A songwriter in love with his demanding boss’s secretary enters an alternate, wacky world where a much-needed hit tune may be created from his heart.Read More »

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.Read More »