Peter Lord’s Views

The film’s protagonist is a small cat with a large tail. When the alarm clock rings, the cat’s morning rush begins. He runs through the room, trying to do everything that he has to get done. Things don’t go well, and the cat doesn’t know what to do first. He is a slave to his alarm clock – if only it were gone, everything would be great. The cat imagines the wonderful and colourful world full of amazing adventures.

In this “Puppetoon” by George Pal, the crew of the H.M.S. Hopeless engage pirates in a desperate, comical battle – with a timeout to advertise Horlick’s Malted Milk. The title is British military slang, circa 1902, meaning “Look: Enemy in sight!” 

A country couple and their shepherd endure drought, flood, a monstrous bear, hunters and tourists during a somewhat odd few days in their normally quiet life.

A monk discovers a fish in a water reservoir near a monastery. He becomes obsessed with the fish and tries everything to catch it. Gradually the story becomes more symbolic.

The heart-wrenching tale of two unlikely lovers: Jo Jo, a silver-plated trapeze artist, and the nameless hero who worships her.

This Christmas special delivers the charm and the laughs audiences have come to expect from master animator Nick Park and the Aardman studio. The painstakingly created plasticine animation gives voice to the “man on the street” interviews the show collects, creating animal counterparts for British folks from all walks of life. This program explores such questions of why dogs object to Christmas hats, and hamsters’ secrets to coping with indigestion.

In a lonely hut lives an old monk with his young novice. Once in his youth the old monk had betrayed his beloved by marrying another woman. Broken-hearted, she drowned herself. Now she comes back to take revenge as a mermaid.

Tomoko arrives in London from Japan and comes across a secret underground city. When she finds it, everything changes.

Over black, we hear mysterious voices singing a wordless lament. Then a lone, spotlighted puppet (bearing more than a passing resemblance to Kermit the Frog) raises a trumpet to his lips and plays a klezmer-like solo. A man has died. Although we know this has happened, the trumpeter and his friends do not realize that their creator has passed away, which leads to some very strange events. 

This animated triptych tells the story of the parallel worlds of a sleeper, a fisherman and his wife, and a bird. Their daily lives are not as smooth as one would expect. Although at first it seems as if the three worlds have nothing to do with each other, in the end we learn that this has been a misconception.

The first animated film by PES features two life-sized chairs having sex on a New York rooftop. The film has been shown at more than 100 film festivals worldwide and has won numerous awards.

The story of a delicate house. Standing at the top of a mountain, it rocks from right to left to the displeasure of its occupants.