Watership Down (1978)

As the sun slips away earlier and earlier, it's only natural for the Crit Club to spend this time imagining what it would be like to bound through sunny British meadows like rabbits. In aid of this, we watched the 1978 animated classic Watership Down, based on the 1972 Richard Adams novel of the same name. The surprisingly serious movie takes viewers on an adventure with a renegade group of rabbit wanderers as they look for a new home and safety. Will we find solace and comfort in the raw watercolors of independently funded animation, or will we side with those dastardly humans and their lack of concern for all things in nature? Come find out! Other things we talked about: - The Green Knight - Jubilee - Heavy Metal - The Hobbit - Firewatch - Disco Elysium - Kirsten Dirksten - Fair Companies - Only Lovers Left Alive - OLD (the movie about a beach that makes you old) Join us next week when we watch Olivier Assayas' 2008 contemplative family drama Summer Hours. And drop us a line! You can email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter with the handle @critclubcast.