I’ve just discovered the Short Animated World blog, dedicated to chronicling all 100 entries on the recent Annecy Film Festival/Studio Magazine/Variety poll of thirty animation historians to establish the best animated films of all time. There’s no original critical material, but each entry offers links and – in most cases – a streaming copy of the actual film.
Unsurprisingly, central and eastern Europe animators loom large in the poll, notching up the following entries:
- 3. Dimensions of Dialogue (Možnosti dialogu, d. Jan Švankmajer, 1982, Czechoslovakia)
- 6. Tale of Tales (Сказка сказок, d. Yuri Norstein, 1979, USSR)
- 18. Tango (d. Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1980, Poland)
- 25. The Hand (Ruka, d. Jiří Trnka, 1965, Czechoslovakia) – Kinoblog review here
- 31. The Cameraman’s Revenge (Месть кинематографического оператора, d. Władysław Starewicz, 1911, Russia)
- 33. Hunger (La faim, d. Peter Földes, 1974, Canada)
- 35. Satiemania (d. Zdenko Gašparović, 1978, Yugoslavia)
- 44. Franz Kafka (d. Piotr Dumała, 1991, Poland)
- 47. The Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (Серый волк энд Красная шапочка, d. Garry Bardin, 1990, USSR)
- 49. Hedgehog in the Fog (Ежик в тумане, d. Yuri Norstein, 1975, USSR)
- 65. Monsieur Tête (L’horrible, bizarre et incroyable histoire de Monsieur Tête, d. Jan Lenica/Henri Gruel, 1959, France)
- 68. Repete (d. Michaela Pavlátová, 1995, Czech Republic)
- 69. Hen, His Wife (Его жена курица, d. Igor Kovaliyov, 1989, USSR)
- 83. The Lion and the Song (Lev a písnička, d. Břetislav Pojar, 1959, Czechoslovakia)
- 85. The Roll-Call (Apel, d. Ryszard Cekala, 1970, Poland)
- 86. A (d. Jan Lenica, 1964, West Germany)
- 88. Tuning the Instruments (Strojenie instrumentów, d. Jerzy Kucia, 2000, Poland)
- 89. Le Pas (d. Piotr Kamler, 1974, France)
- 95. Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal (d. Walerian Borowczyk, 1962, France)
- 97. Hotel E (d. Priit Pärn, 1992, Estonia)
- 98. Film Film Film (Фильм, фильм, фильм, d. Fyodor Khitruk, 1968, USSR)
- 99. Les Jeux des Anges (d. Walerian Borowczyk, 1964, France)
Now this looks like fun! I actually have quite a few of these from the various Masters of Russian Animation and PWA DVDs, but I have plenty of gaps to fill in. Say goodbye to my free time for the next couple of weeks.
First i would to thank you for mentioning my blog, and to congratulate you for your own blog, great resources.
Second i would like to say, that the objective behind the blog was to give people a way of viewing and appreciate the art of animation, for this i chose the list of the best 100 animated shorts, but there will be others soon. About the no original critical material, i chose only to put what i could find, it wasn´t easy and it meant a lot of work, but it will be improved with much more information about the films, this is only the base of the blog. Thanks again for your post. Kind regards