Criterion Channel introduces Bill Plympton starting Sunday

Criterion Channel introduces Bill Plympton starting Sunday

Home to indie films, arthouse films and critically acclaimed documentaries, The Criterion Channel streaming platform highlights the works of animation icon Bill Plympton. Starting Sunday, August 29, the streamer will present a collection of seven feature films and 15 short films.

Plympton's wonderfully bizarre creations are unmistakable: the twisted, hand-sketched style, warped humor, and infinitely changing and transmogrifying images are the hallmarks of a singularly bizarre and brilliant imagination. Plympton was originally a newspaper cartoonist and later found success as a film animator with his mind-blowing musical. Your face  received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film, leading to dozens of short and feature films, one regular play on MTV's early 90s, another Oscar nomination (for short film Guard Dog) and a worldwide cult following. A self-styled "blend of Magritte and R. Crumb", Plympton is a one-of-a-kind absurd author, a hero of underground animation whose films represent a fairground mirror for the innate strangeness of everyday reality.

The collection includes ...

Features:

  • The Tune (1992)
  • I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
  • Mutant Aliens (2001)
  • Hair High (2004)
  • Idiots and Angels (2008)
  • Cheatin ' (2013)
  • Revengeance (2016)
Horn dog

Short films:

  • Your face (1987)
  • One of Those Days (1988)
  • 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989)
  • How to Kiss (1988)
  • Push Comes to Shove (1991)
  • The Wiseman (1991)
  • How to Make Love to a Woman (1996)
  • Sex and Violence (1997)
  • Guard Dog (2004)
  • The Fan and The Flower (2005)
  • Dog Guides (2006)
  • Hot dog (2008)
  • Santa, the Fascist Years (2008)
  • Horn Dog (2009)
  • The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (2010)

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