Allegro non Troppo (1976)

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" Wow. What a marvelous film. Such colors, such vibrancy, such... weirdness. After only one viewing of the Italian animation classic Allegro Non Troppo, its clear to see that this stands as a class of its own. Inspired by the earlier, more famous film, Disney’s Fantasia, this film also takes the idea of setting sections of short narrative animation to famous pieces of classical music. Peppered throughout, however, are the live-action presentations of the actual process of the cartoons being dra"

Non-Disney, Non-Pixar, Non-Ghibli Animated Films (79 movies items)

"I grew up watching brilliant Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto's 'Mr. Rossi' cartoons but it was only as an adult that I discovered his classic animated feature 'Allegro non Troppo'. This astonishing work of brilliance is both a parody of and homage to Disney's 'Fantasia', the feature length anthology film of animated pieces inspired by and set to classical music. Disney's film has gone down in history as a masterpiece and it does feature some of the most beautiful animation of all time. But it"

100 Films I Adore - A Personal Love Letter (100 movies items)

"Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto is best known for creating the character of Senior Rossi, whose dubbed adventures I enjoyed watching on TV while growing up (and who has a brief cameo in this film in which he burns to death!). Bozzetto's masterpiece, however, is this stunning parody of Disney's 'Fantasia', which presents 6 animated sequences set to classical music. Bozzetto's style is quite different from Disney's but often no less grand in its own way. The film climaxes with a satirical descent "

100 Greatest Animated Movies By Digitaldreamdoor (100 movies items)

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