I watched Watership Down (1978) for the first time about a day ago. It was fantastic, and watching the Criterion BD helped the experience a lot. That film is on my “favorite animations” mental list now. 10/10 😃
I’m a big fan of the book (I’ve got an El-Ahrairah shirt and wrote a song called Hazel-Rah 😛 ), but the movie is also pretty good. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dig up a copy of the UNCUT version of The Plague Dogs and give that a watch. Same studio based on another Richard Adams novel, but I prefer both the novel and film to Watership Down. I’ve got my fingers crossed that Criterion will release it, so we’ll see. The uncut version is out there, but I’m not gonna say how to get it on this site, but you can figure it out. The quality suffers, as the original version never had wide release, but it’s so much better (let’s just say there was no intention to make this a kids movie (even less than Watership Down)). Really really good movie (and book!).