Category Archives: Animation

My Favorite Jan Svankmajer Films

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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1.   Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
(Live Action/Animation)

2.   Little Otik (2000)
(a.k.a. Greedy Guts)
(Live Action/Animation)

3.   Faust (1994)
(Live Action/Animation)

4.   Alice (1988)
(Live Action/Animation)

5.   Lunacy (2005)
(Live Action/Animation)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema) (Animation)

1.   Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)

2.   Food (1992)

3.   Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)

4.   The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)

5.   Down to the Cellar (1983)

6.   The Flat (1968)

7.   The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)

8.   Manly Games (1988)

9.   The Garden (1968)

10. Punch and Judy (1966)

11. Jabberwocky (1971)

12. Meat Love (1988)

13. The Ossuary (1970)

14. Don Juan (1970)

15. A Game with Stones (1965)

16. The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)

17. Picnic with Weissmann (1968)

18. The Last Trick (1964)

19. Castle of Otranto (1977)

20. A Quiet Week in the House (1969)

21. Flora (1989)

22. Historia Naturae (1967)

23. Et Cetera (1966)

24. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor (1965) 

My Favorite Henry Selick Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Animation)

1.   The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2.   Coraline (2009)

3.   James and the Giant Peach (1996)
(Part Live-Action)

My Favorite Stephen and Timothy Quay Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Street of Crocodiles (1986)
(Animated Short)

2.   The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
(Animated Short)

3.   Are We Still Married? (1992)
(Animated Short)

4.   Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (1993)
(Animated Short)

5.   De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
(Animated Short)

6.   Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (1993)
(Animated Short)

7.   Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
(Animated Short)

8.   Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
(Animated Short)

9.   Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

10. The Comb (1991)
(Animated Short)

11. Maska (2010)
(Animated Short)

12. Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
(Documentary Short)

13. In Absentia (2000)
(Animated Short)

14. The Phantom Museum (2003)
(Animated Short)

15. Unmistaken Hands (2013)
(Animated Short)

16. The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Institute Benjamenta (1995)

2.   The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (2005)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Nick Park Films

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animation)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animation)

3.   Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
(Animation)

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animation)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animation)

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1.   Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
(co-directed with Steve Box)
(Animation)

2.   Chicken Run (2000)
(co-directed with Peter Lord)
(Animation)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animation) 

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anime)

1.   Spirited Away (2001)

2.   My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

3.   The Wind Rises (2013)

4.   Princess Mononoke (1997)

5.   Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

6.   Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

7.   Porco Rosso (1992)

8.   Castle in the Sky (1986)

9.   Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

10. Ponyo (2008)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

My Favorite Richard Linklater Films

28 Monday May 2018

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1.   Boyhood (2014)

2.   Before Sunset (2004)

3.   Before Sunrise (1995)

4.   Before Midnight (2013)

5.   Bernie (2011)

6.   Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

7.   Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)

8.   Dazed and Confused (1993)

9.   Slacker (1991)

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1.   Last Flag Flying (2017)

2.   Me and Orson Welles (2009)

3.   A Scanner Darkly (2006)
(Animated Film)

4.   School of Rock (2003)

5.   Tape (2001)

6.   The Newton Boys (1998)

7.   SubUrbia (1996)

My Favorite Satoshi Kon Films

13 Sunday May 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Animation/Anime)

1.   Paprika (2006)

2.   Millennium Actress (2001)

3.   Perfect Blue (1997)

4.   Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

My Favorite Gene Kelly Films

11 Friday May 2018

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1.   That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)
(Documentary)

2.   Invitation to the Dance (1956)
(Live-Action/Animation)

3.   Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

4.   It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

5.   On the Town (1949)
(co-directed with Stanley Donen)

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1.   The Happy Road (1957)

2.   The Tunnel of Love (1958)

3.   Hello, Dolly! (1969)

My Favorite Terry Gilliam Films

19 Thursday Apr 2018

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1.   Brazil (1985) 

2.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

3.   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
(co-directed with Terry Jones)

4.   12 Monkeys (1995)

5.   Time Bandits (1981)

6.   The Fisher King (1991)

7.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
(Played before Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life)

2.   Miracle of Flight (1974)
(Animation)
(I watched it on youtube)

3.   Story Time (1979)
(Animation)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

2.   The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

My Favorite Brad Bird Films

05 Monday Mar 2018

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1.   The Iron Giant (1999)
(Animated Film)

2.   Ratatouille (2007)
(Animated Film)

3.   The Incredibles (2004)
(Animated Film)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Television)

1.   Amazing Stories (1985-1987)
Episode: Family Dog (1987)
(Animated Segment)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)