New Album Releases: FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue natives (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

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Film Details

• Starring: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart
  
  
• Director: René Laloux
  
  
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
  
  
• Running Time: 72 min
  
  
• Studio: Criterion
  
  
• Rating: R
  
  

DVD / Blu-Ray Details

• Available Editions (click links to order):
• DVD Criterion Collection ($22.99) - 1 Disc
• Blu-ray Criterion Collection ($22.99) - 1 Disc
• Amazon Instant Video
• Buy from iTunes
  
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1
  
  
• Release Date: June 21, 2016
  
  
• Language: French / English (Dubbed)
  
  






• Audio Formats:
  • Blu-Ray: LPCM Mono, Dolby Digital Mono
  • DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
    
• Subtitles: English SDH
  
  
• Special Features:
• Les escargots (1966), an early short film by director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
• Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
• Italiques: Roland Topor Special, a 1974 French television program on Topor’s work
• Archival interviews
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke

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