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21= Allegro Non Troppo (1976): I just love how creatively sardonic yet sentimental this picture manages to be while juggling so many things. Sprung from the imaginative world of Milanese animator Bruno Bozzetto, "Allegro Non Troppo" opens to a black and white framing device in which a sleazy presenter and an abusive conductor bully an orchestra of old ladies and an animator to put on a great show in which animated sequences unfold to the sound of classical music, but instead of doing abstract images meant to awe you, this movie drops a nuke on the polished, refined Disney style of animation opting to use more crude, surreal and provoking designs more in-line with typical European animation, but to a GREAT effect as they're still appealing in their own unconventional way and even the sillier ones with the more satirical and sexual aspects always create an unbelievable moment of music and imagery that ends up being very meditative and reflective, the live-action segments end up feeling