Cartoon Noir (1999)
- Directed by
- Julie Zammarchi, Pedro Serrazina, Paul Vester, Piotr Dumała
- Genre
- anthology film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is an anthology film that collects six animated short films from the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, England, and Portugal. The shorts are linked by a noir-inspired mood and include stories about a couple in a troubled relationship, workers facing layoffs, alien abductions, a cat and the moon, a woman in a city apartment, and an ape.
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What happens
Cartoon Noir is a 1999 feature-length anthology film consisting of six animated short subjects from five countries. The short films brought together for this anthology were Gentle Spirit (1987) by Piotr Dumała, Club of the Laid Off (1989) by Jiří Barta, Abductees (1995) from England’s Paul Vester, The Story of the Cat and the Moon (1995) from Portuguese animator Pedro Serrazina, and a pair of shorts from American filmmakers: Suzan Pitt's Joy Street (1996) and Julie Zammarchi's Ape (1992). Cartoon Noir was released on DVD in 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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