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Tag Archives: Animation
The Good Soldier Schweik AKA Dobrý voják Svejk (1954) Jirí Trnka, Jan Werich
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s Read More »
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962) Harry Smith
New York beat cronies slumbering through Harry Smith, Burroughs and Ginsberg, University Columbia Read More »
My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) Signe Baumane, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine
From an early age, songs and fairy tales convince Zelma that Love would solve Read More »
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) Robert Taylor, Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell Read More »
Duke Ernest AKA Herzog Ernst (1993) Lutz Dammbeck
Young Duke Ernst wants to become a good knight, but circumstances Read More »
Chronopolis (1982) Piotr Kamler, Michael Lonsdale
Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves Read More »
Victory Through Air Power (1943) James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
This is a unique film in Walt Disney Productions’ history. This film is essentially a propaganda film Read More »
My Sunny Maad AKA Moje slunce Mad (2021) Michaela Pavlátová, Zuzana Stivínová, Shahid Maqsoodi, Shamla Maqsoodi
When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan Read More »
Fritz the Cat (1972) Ralph Bakshi, Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry
In the 1960s, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz Read More »
Science Friction (1959) Stan Vanderbeek
This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics Read More »
The Man from Button Willow (1965) David Detiege, Dale Robertson, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Jean Wong
In 1869, Justin Eagle lives on his ranch called “The Eagle’s Nest” near the town of Button Willow, California. Read More »
The Emperor’s Nightingale AKA Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
The Secret of Magic Island AKA Une fée… pas comme les autres (1956) Jean Tourane, Robert Lamoureux, Robert Beatty, Phil Tonken
The inhabitants of a peaceful village are replaced by a bunch of geese, dogs, foxes and rabbits Read More »
The Snow Queen AKA Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay Read More »