Name: Animated psychedelic screwball classic ALLEGRO NON TROPPO (1976) — New 2K Restoration!
Start: 2026-05-03T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Arkadin Cinema & Bar

$Animated psychedelic screwball classic ALLEGRO NON TROPPO (1976) \u2014 New 2K Restoration!$

“The film, a feature length parody of Disney’s Fantasia, is a masterpiece unto itself – and if you haven’t seen it you are required to attend.” – Jerry Beck, Cartoon Brew
An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named…uhh…”Prisney,” he rallies an orchestra of geriatric women, a bullish conductor, and an animator that he keeps locked in the dungeon. A gleeful sendup of Disney’s Fantasia, Allegro Non Troppo blends live-action slapstick with cheeky animation for a film as joyful and raunchy as it is thoughtful and cutting. Witness a new civilization spring into being from the residue in a soda pop bottle left behind by space travelers, an aging satyr struggle to recapture the vitality of his distant youth, a telling of the Adam and Eve story that’s miles away from anything ever taught in Sunday school, and many other churlish and cheeky delights besides in this best-known work from Italian psychedelic screwball maestro Bruno Bozetto, newly restored and celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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