#but i can't really think of another director that has a familiar divide between a very stylistic and thematically specific body of work

[nyctosaurid]

don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure

[blackcur-rants]

A good description of Don Bluth's work for if people are unfamiliar with him is something like "Imagine if Philip Pullman or Ursula K LeGuin also wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Or "What if Dana Terrace also directed episodes of The Gigglebellies?".

@cynicalclassicist @carcosa-commune @dachi-chan25 @disregardcanon

don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure