“In a thousand years, Gandahar will be destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved and what can’t be avoided will be.” The riddle at the heart of legendary French animator René Laloux’s ...

The most important science fiction trilogy ever made has nothing to do with Luke Skywalker. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, one director released a trio of incredible movies that pushed the limits of ...

This month, Heritage Auctions offers its seventh installment of its Art of Anime & Everything Cool series in a sweeping auction that encompasses the history of animation art – from the genius of Chuck ...

Directed by René Laloux as his follow-up to 1973's Fantastic Planet, this one first opened in France in 1982, and in the US in 1984. Now 40 years later it's getting a proper 4K restoration and ...

In the immersive arena of global animation where anything is possible, director René Laloux's counterculture gem, "Fantastic Planet" ("La Planète sauvage"), remains unrivaled in its strange and ...

Janus Films has restored French animation director René Laloux’s striking animated feature The Time Masters (Les maîtres du temps) and will give a theatrical run to the new 4K restoration. The film, ...

After decades of resisting animation, Criterion Collection is finally acknowledging what Cartoon Brew have always known: there’s a lot of amazing animated features out there! Nothing else has ever ...

René Laloux's 1973 Cannes winner, now streaming on HBO Max, has a lot more on its mind than trippy visuals. The world of René Laloux’s 1973 animated classic “Fantastic Planet” (now streaming on HBO ...

Animation became big business again in the late '80s, and ever since, it's become less and less likely that there'll be another full-length animated feature quite as weird as René Laloux's underground ...

Like a lost Terry Gilliam segment of Heavy Metal, René Laloux’s 1973 film, Fantastic Planet, engulfs the viewer with scene after scene of unnerving SF wonder. Terr, a young Om (a human, a homophone ...

René Laloux was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in ...