Classic Movies Live – Season 3, Episode 43: Top Ten Animated Films By Genre
August 10, 2022
For the past two years for Dakota Arsenault’s birth, he’s dedicated his podcast, Contra Zoom Pod, to celebrating some of his all-time favourite movies! In this year’s birthday episode, Episode 199, he was joined by Bil Antoniou to go through each of their favourite films in ten different genres.
And yet, something was not right. In the episode, Dakota controversially included “Animation” as a genre, despite claiming that “Animation is a medium, not a genre”. Anticipating blowback, he also noted that “people are going to be really mad at me for this one.”
Here on Classic Movies Live!, nothing would make us happier than to indulge our friend in his search for new enemies!
On today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff go through ten different film genres and name our favourite animated films from each of them! See our picks below (Pierre’s first, then Jeff’s)!
Comedy: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie and On-Gaku: Our Sound
Crime: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and A Scanner Darkly
Musical: Frozen and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Documentary: Flee
Live Action: Space Jam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
SciFi: Wall-E and Akira
Horror: Monster House and Perfect Blue
Action: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Redline
Romance: Toy Story 4 and Wall-E (Your Name was a joint honourable mention)
Biopic: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
How many of our picks have you seen? Compare on our Letterboxd list.
If you haven’t caught Contra Zoom Pod’s Best Films by Genre episode, it works as a great companion to this response episode, so you should check it out here!
Finally, a very special thanks to Rachel Ho of Contra Zoom Pod for calling in as our first ever guest on the main series of Classic Movies Live! You can find more of Rachel over on Contra Zoom, or at her personal site. Rachel also regularly writes for Exclaim and That Shelf, and is pretty active over on Twitter!
