Brooklyn is about to get a little more animated. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is screening a series of films by Brooklyn-raised animator Ralph Bakshi from May 9–20. The groundbreaking filmmaker is ...

As we head into the final stretch of Peter Jackson-directed “Hobbit” installments—all comprehensive and extravagant three of them—take a moment to remember a time when “Lord of the Rings” was still an ...

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 exclusively.

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 decade ...

Director Ralph Bakshi says the message of “Wizards” is stronger than ever, even though it was initially released 35 years ago. The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth and follows the story of ...

The taboo-shattering counterculture films of seventy-five-year-old animation legend Ralph Bakshi will be the subject of a retrospective this May in his childhood home of Brooklyn, New York. Between ...

"Hey people, Ralphie needs money to draw. Let's give him some so he can make a fool of himself again." — Ralph Bakshi's Miss America, in the Kickstarter campaign video for his new animated project Now ...

BAM Cinématek’s film retrospective Cool Worlds: The Animation of Ralph Bakshi begins this Friday in Brooklyn, New York. The tribute will run from May 9-20, screening a selection of Bakshi’s cult ...

Animation Legend Ralph Bakshi (Fritz The Cat, Cool World) is making his return to film in celebration of his 77th birthday on October 29th with the nationwide release of his new animated short Last ...

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