Ralph Bakshi and 'Heavy Metal' are the touchstones for Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt's rotoscoped fantasy, a retro indulgence for a particular strain of genre geek. By Guy Lodge.

The real deal is Ralph Bakshi's cultishly beloved animated version, in which every shot looks like it belongs on the side of a van. Heavy Metal in Baghdad View full post on Youtube ...

But this didn’t stop Ralph Bakshi from trying to catch the whale with his ... Its use of rotoscoping results in a visually striking experience best described as heavy-metal fantasy ...

After fighting producers, the studios and even fellow animators for more than 25 years, maverick filmmaker Ralph Bakshi left Hollywood and moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where he has spent the past ...

Director Ralph Bakshi is launching his new animated film, “Last Days of Coney Island,” on Oct. 29 — his 77th birthday — with an exclusive release on Vimeo on Demand, Variety has learned ...

Did you start seeing imitators at this point of a Bakshi style, of say 1981’s “Heavy Metal” and movies like that? Movies with rock and breasts, basically. No.

Unfiltered The Complete Ralph Bakshi Jon M. Gibson and Chris McDonnell Universe: 280 pp., $40; ... Bakshi’s “Fritz the Cat” and “Heavy Traffic” opened new areas of content in American ...

Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, and Richard E. Grant lend their voices to this ultra-violent tribute to rotoscoped classics like "Heavy Metal." An ultra-violent throwback to the halcyon days of hard ...

DVD Watch: 'Heavy Traffic' Ralph Bakshi's irreverent feature celebrates its 40th By Monica Riese, 1:01PM, Tue. Jul. 16, 2013 ...

Robert Rodriguez is making a live-action version of Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice animated movie. ... Quite simply, Heavy Metal beat it to the punch two years earlier. Ad. Rating: 2 out of 5.

His father, Eliezer, worked in a sheet metal factory and his mother, Mina, commuted to the garment district on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Bakshi’s world was Jewish, but it was hardly pious.

Ralph Bakshi: No, not really. O: Are you interested in seeing what he does with it? ... Jesus." I mean, in Heavy Traffic, Carol says to Michael—pardon me if I insult you here—she says, ...