A collection of the best short, animated films from across the world curated by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.A collection of the best short, animated films from across the world curated by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.A collection of the best short, animated films from across the world curated by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.
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- Alternate versionsThe DVD version runs 102 minutes and omits the shorts "Rejected", "Strange Invaders", "Ident", "Vincent", and "Mars and Beyond", but adds the shorts "Moving Illustrations of Machines", "Aria", "Brother", "Cousin", "Uncle", and "Bathtime in Clerkenwell".
- ConnectionsEdited from The Magical World of Disney: Mars and Beyond (1957)
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More hits than misses, and some of the hits are flat out brilliant
Curated by animators Don Hertzfeld and Mike Judge, this is a tremendously wide ranging collection of animation; computer, clay, hand-drawn, dramatic, funny, abstract, documentary. You name it.
As with any collection of many shorts the quality is wide ranging too, and personal taste will play a big part in how a given person responds. But the best bits here are quite brilliant, and make this set very worthwhile for fans of animation aimed at an adult audience.
Among the best for my taste: Alex Budovsky's gorgeous shadow-play Bath-time in Clerkenwell, Adam Elliot's wonderful 3 clay stop motion character portraits of his screwed up family members: 'Uncle', 'Cousin', and 'Brother' – all 3 are both hilarious and but also truly heartbreaking, Don Hertzfeld's simple, blackly comic 'Billy's Balloon'; painfully, sickly, laugh out loud funny. But even the less brilliant are all interesting, with only a very few real clunkers in the bunch.
The collection is available as part of a very reasonably priced 2 DVD set, along with "The Animation Show, Volume 2". For me, this 2 DVD set is more slightly more uneven than the later Volume 3, which has a tremendously high ratio of hits to misses. The set also comes with a nice booklet with a biographical sketch on each of the artists represented, and a decent number of special features and extras.
As with any collection of many shorts the quality is wide ranging too, and personal taste will play a big part in how a given person responds. But the best bits here are quite brilliant, and make this set very worthwhile for fans of animation aimed at an adult audience.
Among the best for my taste: Alex Budovsky's gorgeous shadow-play Bath-time in Clerkenwell, Adam Elliot's wonderful 3 clay stop motion character portraits of his screwed up family members: 'Uncle', 'Cousin', and 'Brother' – all 3 are both hilarious and but also truly heartbreaking, Don Hertzfeld's simple, blackly comic 'Billy's Balloon'; painfully, sickly, laugh out loud funny. But even the less brilliant are all interesting, with only a very few real clunkers in the bunch.
The collection is available as part of a very reasonably priced 2 DVD set, along with "The Animation Show, Volume 2". For me, this 2 DVD set is more slightly more uneven than the later Volume 3, which has a tremendously high ratio of hits to misses. The set also comes with a nice booklet with a biographical sketch on each of the artists represented, and a decent number of special features and extras.
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- Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt Present: The Animation Show
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- Gross US & Canada
- $612,864
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,487
- Sep 7, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $612,864
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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