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) 

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My Favorite Steven Spielberg Films

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

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1.   A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2.   E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982)

3.   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4.   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

5.   Jaws (1975)

6.   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

7.   Duel (1971)
(TV Film)

8.   1941 (1979)

9.   The Sugarland Express (1974)

10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

11. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

12. Minority Report (2002) 

13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

14. Ready Player One (2018)

15. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
(Animated Film)

16. Jurassic Park (1993)

17. War of the Worlds (2005)

18. The Terminal (2004)

19. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

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1.   Bridge of Spies (2015)

2.   Lincoln (2012)

3.   The Post (2017)

4.   War Horse (2011)

5.   The BFG (2016)

6.   Hook (1991)

7.   Always (1989)

8.   Empire of the Sun (1987)

9.   Munich (2005)

10. Schindler’s List (1993)

11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

12. The Color Purple (1985)

13. Amistad (1997)

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: A Close Shave (1995)
(Animated Short)

2.   Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
(Animated Short)

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

4.   Creature Comforts (1989)
(Animated Short)

5.   A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
(Animated Short)

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

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

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

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

1.   Early Man (2018)
(Animated Film)

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 George Miller Films

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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1.   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

2.   Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

3.   Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

4.   Mad Max (1979)

5.   Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
(co-directed with George Ogilvie)

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

1.   Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
(Segment: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”)
(Anthology Film)

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1.   Happy Feet (2006)
(Animated Film)

2.   The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

3.   Happy Feet Two (2011)
(Animated Film)

My Favorite Richard Linklater Films

28 Monday May 2018

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1.   Boyhood (2014)

2.   Before Midnight (2013)

3.   Before Sunset (2004)

4.   Before Sunrise (1995)

5.   Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)

6.   Bernie (2011)

7.   Dazed and Confused (1993)

8.   Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

9.   Slacker (1991)

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

2.   Last Flag Flying (2017)

3.   Tape (2001)

4.   SubUrbia (1996)

5.   Me and Orson Welles (2009)

6.   School of Rock (2003)

7.   The Newton Boys (1998)

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)

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

1.   The Happy Road (1957)

2.   The Tunnel of Love (1958)

3.   Hello, Dolly! (1969)