Forum - View topicREVIEW: Angel's Egg
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dm
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I'm not sure I'd hang the anchor of Belladonna of sadness around this film's neck, but agree on Fantastic Planet.
There's a lot of Cold War-era Eastern European animation to compare Angel's Egg to --- look at stuff by Yuri Norstein (e.g., "The Overcoat"), Alexander Alexeieff ("The Nose"), maybe the stop-motion works of Jan Svankmajer, and I think you'll see connections to Angel's Egg (when I saw the skeletal fish in the sky above a European-like urban twilight in Angel's Egg I was positive I'd seen something like it before at a film venue that closed before Angel's Egg was made, but I've never been able to track it down). |
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Romuska
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The fact that this movie still isn't available out here should be a federal crime! I really hope Discotek or GKids obtain the rights one day.
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Lord Geo
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Unfortunately, Angel's Egg is something that's essentially been in licensing limbo ever since the 80s, and no one's 100% sure why. Justin Sevakis thinks that maybe Roger Corman was given more control over the license than the Japanese companies intended back in the 80s for Into the Aftermath (which was a common thing, back in the day), while there's even a rumor that the paperwork regarding the licensing rights for home video outside of Japan may have been accidentally destroyed at one point, so no one's fully sure who's in charge of that over in Japan. Many have apparently tried to license Angel's Egg over the decades, but the closest we've gotten is Arrow Video's BD for Into the Aftermath back in 2019, and even that release didn't (or maybe even couldn't) include Angel's Egg, even as a bonus. |
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dm
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Well, there's so little dialogue that, for North Americans, ordering the blu-ray from Japan (same region code as NA) is a reasonable alternative. It's not even all that expensive (by Japan blu-ray standards, anyway).
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mdo7
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Yeah, to be honest it's baffling for that film to not get a North American uncut release given that anime is now widely accepted in the mainstream. When Arrow Film released In the Aftermath on blu-ray in 2019, the BD didn't come with Angel's Egg uncut as a special feature. This is the same Arrow Film that released all the Showa & Heisei Gamera in one collection. So I don't see Discotek nor GKids being able to release it, here's hoping Japanese licensor will give a green light to Arrow film for a future release of Angel's Egg for a In the Aftermath's future BD (or a 4K UHD BD) re-release. |
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varmintx
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I don't know how many times I've watched this movie over the past 20-25 years, but it's a lot. It's a perfect salve for a particular mood that I find myself descend into.
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MarshalBanana
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I should really rewatch this, when I originally watched it i did come up with a theory to what the plot was, but I can not remember what that was.
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FireChick
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I remember attempting to watch this when I was younger, but I got bored and opted out. I should probably watch it again now that I'm older.
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Cho_Desu
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An anime classic, and one I really enjoyed back when I was beginning to see just how experimental the medium could get. Would have loved to see it on the big screen, and I agree with everyone wishing we'd get a Blu-ray for it.
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nyaa
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I have an old hkdvd of this but I haven't watched it for a long time. Maybe it's time to rewatch it.......?
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Malsang
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I think another person in the anime community I follow, talking about this movie, put it best: "Our prayers have been answered, and the answer is 'No.'"
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