Category Archives: Animation

My Favorite Robert Zemeckis Films

15 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
(Animation/Live-Action)

2.   Used Cars (1980)

3.   Back to the Future (1985)

4.   I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996)
(Episode from Season 1: “And All Through the House”)
(Episode from Season 3: “Yellow”)
(Episode from Season 6: “You, Murderer”)
(Cable Series)

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 Steven Spielberg Films

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

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1.   A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

2.   1941 (1979)

3.   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4.   Jaws (1975)

5.   Duel (1971)
(TV Film)

6.   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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

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

9.   The Sugarland Express (1974)

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1.   Catch Me If You Can (2002)

2.   Jurassic Park (1993)

3.   Minority Report (2002)

4.   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

My Favorite Henry Selick Films

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

Posted by in 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, British Cinema, Cinema, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Henry Selick, Horror, Lists, Musical, Top 304

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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 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.   Waking Life (2001)
(Animated Film)

7.   Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

8.   Dazed and Confused (1993)

9.   Slacker (1991)

10. It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)

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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

Posted by in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Animation, Cinema, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film Directors, French Cinema, Gene Kelly, Greatest, Lists, Musical, Romance, Top 314

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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)