Tag: movies

Grown-Up Animation

Anyone who’s seen Princess Mononoke knows animated films can hold their own with their live-action counterparts. For those who still think cartoons are for kids, MATTHEW BALDWIN has 15 reasons why you’re wrong.

  • Animal Farm (1954)
  • Fantastic Planet (1973)
  • Animal Farm (1954)
  • The Plague Dogs (1982)
  • Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
  • The Iron Giant (1999)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Waking Life (2001)
  • The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
  • Renaissance (2006)
  • Persepolis (2007)
  • Waltz With Bashir (2008)
  • Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
  • Wall·E (2008)
  • Mary and Max (2009)

Thriving Among Pirates

nigeria, india and china produce 4x more films per year than hollywood, despite rampant privacy. how does this work?

My first surprise was the discovery that in each of these famously pirate-laden countries, piracy is not really rampant – at least not in the way it is usually portrayed by copyright police. Piracy of imported (i.e., Hollywood) films is rife, but locally produced films are pirated to a lesser degree. The reasons are complex and subtle.