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Genre | Animation, Anime & Manga |
Format | Color, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Original recording remastered, NTSC |
Contributor | Barry White, Philip Thomas, Ralph Bakshi, Albert S. Ruddy, Philip Michael Thomas, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 29 minutes |
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Remastered in high definition
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"Coonskin could be Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece." --New York Times
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 8177
- Director : Ralph Bakshi
- Media Format : Color, Widescreen, Multiple Formats, Original recording remastered, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 29 minutes
- Release date : March 13, 2012
- Actors : Philip Thomas, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White, Charles Gordone
- Producers : Albert S. Ruddy
- Studio : Xenon
- ASIN : B005K8RJME
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,654 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #65 in Anime (Movies & TV)
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Admittedly, the animation is not *gorgeous*, but again, I think this simply adds to the overall rough feel of the movie. There's no computer-generated imagery and I think the mood is really captured nicely with the art style, music, everything. Could you take a film about Harlem seriously if it had perfect, pretty animation? I love the spin Bakshi put on the classic Uncle Remus stories, re-telling them in a gritty, urban setting.
Definitely not a kids' film either. Coonskin is full of coarse language, nudity, sex, drug use and references, murder, blood, violence, possibly offensive caricatures. Coonskin's got it all. I don't really get offended by much because I've got a pretty sick, twisted sense of humor, so I was able to enjoy this movie through and through. However, I'm reviewing as a white 20-something atheist viewer, so I can't say for certain that religious viewers or anyone of any other ethnicity would find this film to be in bad taste.
I think my favorite characters had to be the Godfather's gay sons; I don't think they really served a huge purpose, but they just made me laugh because of they're over-the-top stereotypical behavior.
My only complaint - a minor one - just seems to me like the story really hops around a lot and segments of the film just do not flow very smoothly into one another. Part of me still tries to figure out the plot even though I've watched it a few times since I got it. Yes I know it's a satire and all, but there's so many conflicts going on and very few ever seem to be resolved. I still don't know what the purpose of the boxing match is at the end, or the lady in the bar that winds up marrying Brother Bear.
But in spite of everything, I still enjoyed the film, and if you'd like to see something radically different in terms of animation and won't get offended too easily, I recommend this classic title. See the work of someone who was completely uninhibited by the burden of theatrical censorship.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XL6EJE until it was inexplicably pulled a few weeks before its proposed release by Shout Factory.
The original name of this amazing film, "Coonskin," was changed without the director's permission to "Street Fight" for its (very) limited filmatic release back in 1975. It is a combination of live action film that bookends the animated feature, much like Bakshi's previous effort, the somewhat biographical "Heavy Traffic".
An unbelievably biting satire of 1970's society and Walt Disney's "Song Of The South", "Street Fight" was originally concieved and produced in 1975. Bookended by live action sequences starring R&B sensation Barry White, a pre-Miami Vice Phillip Micheal Thomas, Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Gordone, and the inimitable Scat Man Crothers, the film was intended to be a multi-leveled update of Br'er Rabbit gone to Harlem. An astonishing and ground-breaking attack on racism, on the surface this film appears to embody and embrace exactly sort of Stephen Fetchit/Uncle Tom/Uncle Remus stereotypes that it so successfully skewers, also satirizing "The Godfather", blaxploitation films like Black Caesar , and New York Glam Rockers such as the New York Dolls
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the film in view of one the reviews that panned it's video resolution, although it did not match the smoothness of "Heavy Traffic" or "Cool World" in either context or production value.
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Ich möchte hautsächlich auf diesen wunderbaren Blu-ray Release eingehen.
- von der Verpackung her echt klasse! Ein hochwertiger Pappschuber mit tollem Cover und abnehmbarem FSK-Sticker.
- Wendecover mit der anderen Seite ohne FSK-Logo. Generell ist das Cover mit satten Farben sehr schön anzusehen.
- Bildqualität ist ganz okay. Was vermutlich aber weniger mit dem Transfer zu tun hat, sondern eher mit den Arbeitsbedingungen in Bakshis Studio. Ständig sieht man irgendwelche Schäden des Films aufploppen. (in einer Stelle verschwindet sogar mal ein Charakter für ein paar Frames, weil der zeichner ihn wohl vergessen hat zu zeichnen. Hat nichts mit der Blu-ray zu tun, finde ich aber interessant genug, um es zu erwähnen)
- die Qualität der englischen Tonspur ist ebenfalls eher schlecht. Aber auch hier liegt es nun mal daran, wie der Film gemacht wurde. Zur deutschen Tonspur kann ich im Moment noch nichts sagen. habe sie noch nicht angehört.
- als Extras bekommt man 2 Trailer. Den deutschen und den US Kinotrailer. Bei so einem Film kann man aber auch nicht mehr erwarten. Es gibt kaum DVD Releases von Coonskin und deshalb wurde wenig produziert, was man als Extras hätte nutzen können.
- die Blu-ray hat den Ländercode A, B und C. Unsere Freunde aus dem Ausland werden sich also freuen, da Deutschland den ersten Blu-ray Release dieses Films bekommen hat, von dem ich weiß. Und es würde mich nicht wundern, wenn es der einzige bleibt.
Zum Schluss gibt es also nur zu sagen: auch wenn die Blu-ray etwas wenig in Sachen Extras bietet, merkt man doch, dass OFDb Filmworks hier das Beste aus dem gemacht hat, was zur Verfügung steht. Mit dieser Qualität würde ich sehr gerne die anderen Bakshi Filme wie "Hey good lookin'" und "American pop" sehen, die bisher nicht hier erschienen sind. "Hey good looking'" hat soweit ich weiß noch gar keinen DVD Release bekommen.
OFDb Filmworks hat mit dieser Blu-ray und DVD genau das richtig gemacht, was WVG Medien GmbH mit den Releases von Heavy Traffic und Fritz the Cat nicht hinbekommen hat.
Eine absolute Kaufempfehlung an alle Bakshi und Animationsfans. Bitte unterstützt diesen Release, damit wir hoffentlich bald mehr sehen!
The way to access the English soundtrack is to use the language button on your remote (or change the audio track in software like VLC). Fix your menus lads.
It's still a great movie and I'm preying that a UK label will pick up the rights.