Film The Secret of Kells

[Kenickie]

This movie showed up on Netflix Instant, and it's fucking great.

anyone else?

 

[RareForm]

what's it about?

 

[Pander Bear]

the abbey of kells trying to survive a viking raid, while also creating an enduring work of art (the book of kells)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Kells

Twas cool-- I just wish playback on netflix instant streaming wasn't stuttery that night.

 

[Kenickie]

it's by the same guy who did Samurai Jack. the vikings look really scary -- i think it's one of those "childrens movies" that actually turn out too frightening for most children.

 

[RareForm]

i'm gonna have to put my eyes on that one.

 

[L2R]

i actually saw THE book of the Kells when it came around to Australia around 7-12 years ago (i forget which year it was). edit: just looked it up, it was in 2000.

it's by the same guy who did Samurai Jack. the vikings look really scary -- i think it's one of those "childrens movies" that actually turn out too frightening for most children.

holy shit, genndy tartakovski. i fricken LOVE that guy. this has suddenly become a must see for me.

 

[Kenickie]

Brother Aiden (the monk who brings the book to kells) has a cat named Panger Ban which apparently is the name another monk gave his cat in the 8th century and wrote a poem about.

i love little things like that.

 

[psood0nym]

This is one of the best animated films I've ever seen. Going into it ignorant, at first I was turned off by the very two-dimensional animation, but I ended up loving it when I realized how perfect a stylistic choice it was for the coming of age story of a master illuminator. The religious content is highly understated considering the New Testament is at the center of the plot, yet despite not being a Christian film its ethereal aesthetic is so forceful as to be enrapturing at times (granted, I was on 1 mg 25C-NBOMe and ketamine). Certain scenes appear as though they were lifted from a dipropyltryptamine vision. I suppose that's to be expected, as the animators were taking cues from the works of centuries bygone Irish monks who devoted their lives to the artistic expression of their spirituality, but the effect is nevertheless stunning.

Secret of the Kells should have won Best Animated Picture.

This scene somehow makes me regret that I don't have a forest sprite and a magical cat as friends.

 

[TyphlosionDragon]

SUCH a good movie. I saw it in Boston and met the director!

 

[His Name Is Frank]

Poll added.

 

[StarOceanHouse]

Just watched this movie. The animation is so stunning.