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🦋 Top fifty

Thanks to Alvy Singer for pointing out a new list of top-fifty animated films from Time Out, with some commentary by Terry Gilliam! I'm glad to see they gave Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs a place on the list, even though it's so new and unproven. I am as convinced as they are that "this maddeningly ingenious and wildly original smart kidsâ?? adventure will one day take its rightful place in the animated pantheon. " Most of the Miyazaki masterpieces make the list, with My Neighbor Totoro taking top ranking as is well and good. The list is a little biased toward feature films -- it seems like the shorts by Chuck Jones and Tex Avery deserve pride of place. Jones has "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" from 1979 at number 3, but that was decades after his finest work.

posted evening of Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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Thanks for the link!!! I think the same in the short movies, and I've written that Who Killed Who? is, among other things (a deconstruction of whodunit, an essay about cartoon as a matter of speed - like all Avery's works), a masterpiece. I also miss the Skeleton Dance, the first silly symphony and probably one of the most strange entries in the Walt Disney-Ub Iwerks canon, and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, another great and emblematic work, this directed by Robert Clampett.

posted evening of October 15th, 2009 by Alvy Singer

Yes -- as a matter of fact I found out about Who Killed Who? from your blog! Thanks and keep posting about cartoons...

posted evening of October 15th, 2009 by Jeremy

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