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*steals link for use in upcoming Animation List project*

haha, right, that's going to be helpful.

Here's the Laputa top 150 from 2003. Yuri Norstein wins again, and there's a lot more of japanese animation, which is a GOOD thing, otherwise I would have never heard of The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, it's UPA meet anime, and Akira Ifukube's best film score. But there's a lot of weird stuff (obscure commercials, "Mickey Mouse", Vynález zkázy which is totally a (great) live-action film, etc.) and TV series.
There's also a great list of 30 addtionnal titles


And Annecy's 2006 list. I can't find it online, so here (not a single feature film in this one, and Gertie and Fantasmagorie as number 1 and 2 is somewhat weird):

• • 1 : Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor MCCAY, 1914, US
  • 2 : Fantasmagorie, émile COHL, 1908, FR
  • 3 : Moznosti dialogu, Jan SVANKMAJER, 1982, CZ
  • 4 : Crac !, Frédéric BACK, 1981, CA
  • 5 : L'homme qui plantait des arbres, Frédéric BACK, 1987, CA
  • 6 : Shazka skazok, Youri NORSTEIN, 1979, SU
  • 7 : Une nuit sur le mont Chauve, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF, Claire PARKER, 1933, FR
  • 8 : A Colour Box, Len LYE, 1935, GB
  • 9 : L'Idée, Berthold BARTOSCH, 1931, FR
  • 10 : La rue, Caroline LEAF, 1976, CA
  • 11 : Neighbours, Norman MCLAREN, 1952, CA
  • 12 : Blinkity Blank, Norman MCLAREN, 1955, CA
  • 13 Duck amuck, Chuck JONES, 1953, US
  • 14 : Harpya, Raoul SERVAIS, 1978, BE
  • 15 : Luxo Jr., John LASSETER, 1986, US.
  • 16 : Betty Boop in Snow White, Dave FLEISCHER, 1933, US
  • 17 : Creature Comforts, Nick PARK, 1989, GB
  • 18 : Tango, Zbigniew RYBCZYNSKI, 1980, PL
  • 19 : Street of Crocodiles (Ulica krokodyli), Timothy & Stephen QUAY, 1986, GB
  • 20 : Begone Dull Care, Norman MCLAREN, 1949, CA
  • 21 : Le Petit Soldat, Paul GRIMAULT, 1947, FR
  • 22 : What's Opera, Doc?, Chuck JONES, 1957, US
  • 23 : Father and Daughter, Michaël DUDOK DE WIT, 2000, NL, GB
  • 24 : Red Hot Riding Hood, Tex AVERY, 1943, US
  • 25 : Ruka, Jiri TRNKA, 1965, CZ
  • 26 : Steamboat Willie, Walt DISNEY, Ub IWERKS, 1928, US
  • 27 : Le Nez, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF, Claire PARKER, 1963, FR
  • 28 : La gazza ladra sinfonia, Giulio GIANINI, Emanuele LUZZATI, 1964, IT
  • 29 : Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Robert CANNON, 1950, US
  • 30 : La Joie de vivre, Anthony GROSS, Hector HOPPIN, 1934, FR
  • 31 : Miest kinooperatora, Ladislas STAREWITCH, 1911, RU
  • 32 as de deux, Norman MCLAREN, 1967, CA
  • 33 : La Faim, Peter FöLDES, 1974, CA
  • 34 : Girls Night Out, Joanna QUINN, 1986, GB
  • 35 : Satiemania, Zdenko GASPAROVIC, 1978, YU
  • 36 : Komposition in blau, Oskar FISHCHINGER, 1935, DE
  • 37 : La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1978, FR
  • 38 : Moonbird, John HUBLEY, Faith ELLIOT, 1959, US
  • 39 en Offentlige Røst, Lejf MARCUSSEN, 1988, DK
  • 40 : Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs, Bob CLAMPETT, 1943, US
  • 41 : Free radicals, Len LYE, 1979, US
  • 42 : La Course à l'abîme, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1992, CH
  • 43 : Vincent, Tim BURTON, 1982, US
  • 44 : Franz Kafka, Piotr DUMALA, 1991, PL
  • 45 ojoji, Kihachiro KAWAMOTO, 1976, JP
  • 46 : Entre deux s½urs, Caroline LEAF, 1990, CA
  • 47 : Seriy volk i krasnaïa chapotchka, Garri BARDINE, 1990, SU
  • 48 : Balance, Christoph LAUENSTEIN, Wolfgang LAUENSTEIN, 1989, RF
  • 49 : Lojik v toumane, Youri NORSTEIN, 1975, SU
  • 50 : When the Day Breaks, Wendy TILBY, Amanda FORBIS, 1999, CA
  • 51 : Rooty toot toot, John HUBLEY, 1952, US
  • 52 : The Skeleton Dance, Walt DISNEY, 1929, US
  • 53 : King Size Canary, Tex AVERY, 1947, US
  • 54 : Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973, US
  • 55 : The Flying Man, George DUNNING, 1962, GB
  • 56 : Egged On, Charley BOWERS, 1926, US
  • 57 : Le Paysagiste, Jacques DROUIN, 1976, CA
  • 58 : Jumping, Osamu TEZUKA, 1984, JP
  • 59 : Harvie Krumpet, Adam Benjamin ELLIOT, 2003, AU
  • 60 : The Wrong Trousers, Nick PARK, 1993, GB
  • 61 : Omboro film, Osamu TEZUKA, 1985, JP
  • 62 amon the Mower, George DUNNING, 1972, GB
  • 63 : Fast Film, Virgil WIDRICH, 2003, AT, LU
  • 64 : Geri's Game, Jan PINKAVA, 1997, US
  • 65 : L'Horrible, Bizarre et Incroyable Histoire de Monsieur Tête, Jan LENICA, Henri GRUEL, 1959, FR
  • 66 : Ryan, Chris LANDRETH, 2004, CA
  • 67 : Café Bar, Alison DE VERE, 1974, GB
  • 68 : Repete, Michaela PAVLATOVA, 1995, CZ
  • 69 : Ego jena kouritsa, Igor KOVALIYOV, 1989, SU
  • 70 : Atama Yama, Koji YAMAMURA, 2002, JP
  • 71 : Out of the Inkwell : Invisible Ink, Dave & Max FLEISCHER, 1921, US
  • 72 : 78 tours, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1985, CH
  • 73 : The Sinking of the Lusitania, Winsor MCCAY, 1918, US
  • 74 : Closed Mondays, Will VINTON, 1974, US
  • 75 : Cat's Cradle, Paul DRIESSEN, 1974, CA
  • 76 : Les Trois Inventeurs, Michel OCELOT, 1980, FR
  • 77 : The Big Snit, Richard CONDIE, 1985, CA
  • 78 : The Sandman, Paul BERRY, Colin BATTY, Ian MACKINNON, 1991, GB
  • 79 : The Blitz Wolf, Tex AVERY, 1942, US
  • 80 : Feeling from Mountain and Water, Te WEI, Ma KEXUAN, Yan SANCHUN, 1988, CN
  • 81 : La Demoiselle et le Violoncelliste, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1964, FR
  • 82 : Le Chapeau, Michèle COURNOYER, 1999, CA
  • 83 : Lev a pisnicka, Bretislav POJAR, 1959, CZ
  • 84 : The Sand Castle, Co HOEDEMAN, 1977, CA
  • 85 : Apel, Ryszard CZEKALA, 1970, PL
  • 86 : A, Jan LENICA, 1964, FR, RF
  • 87 : Der Fuehrer's Face, Jack KINNEY, 1943, US
  • 88 : Strojenie instrumentow, Jerzy KUCIA, 2000, PL
  • 89 : Le Pas, Piotr KAMLER, 1974, FR
  • 90 : Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, Dave FLEISCHER, 1936, US
  • 91 : Great, Bob GODFREY, 1975, GB
  • 92 : Au bout du monde, Konstantin BRONZIT, 1998, FR
  • 93 : Felix in exile, William KENTRIDGE, 1994, ZA
  • 94 : The Band Concert, Wilfred JACKSON, 1935, US
  • 95 : Le Concert de M. et Mme Kabal, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1962, FR
  • 96 : Seiltänzer, Raimund KRUMME, 1986, RF
  • 97 : Hotel E, Priit PÄRN, 1992, EE
  • 98 : Film-film-film!, Fedor KHITRUK, 1968, RU
  • 99 : Les Jeux des anges, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1964, FR
  • 100 : Flux, Christopher HINTON, 2002, CA

Is there a watchable subbed version of Vynález zkázy anywhere? I haven't seen that film since I was in diapers.

Much appreciation, Saturnome. I, too, wanted to see as many of the films on the list as I could and I'd since started to think I'd just imagined the whole thing, (in which case I evidently learned about Alexeieff when his spirit visited me in my dreams and then erased all memory of the confrontation with the exception of the title of that particular film and where I could find it on - OK, I think that's enough). And besides, you've gotta love any list where Yellow Submarine gets more votes than Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Came across this rather new list from TimeOut when searching for a list for just feature length animation to acccompany Annecy's animated shorts list a few posts above. The latest film included is last year's The Mitchells vs. the Machines. While remaining generous to big studios like Disney, Ghibli and Pixar, the list also reserved plenty slots for filmmakers such as Kon Satoshi, Ralph Bakshi, Jan Svankmajer, etc.

andyli wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:55 am Came across this rather new list from TimeOut when searching for a list for just feature length animation to acccompany Annecy's animated shorts list a few posts above. The latest film included is last year's The Mitchells vs. the Machines. While remaining generous to big studios like Disney, Ghibli and Pixar, the list also reserved plenty slots for filmmakers such as Kon Satoshi, Ralph Bakshi, Jan Svankmajor, etc.

. . and yet no room for Yuri Norstein, Jiri Trnka or Tex Avery!

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:26 pm

andyli wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:55 am Came across this rather new list from TimeOut when searching for a list for just feature length animation to acccompany Annecy's animated shorts list a few posts above. The latest film included is last year's The Mitchells vs. the Machines. While remaining generous to big studios like Disney, Ghibli and Pixar, the list also reserved plenty slots for filmmakers such as Kon Satoshi, Ralph Bakshi, Jan Svankmajor, etc.

. . and yet no room for Yuri Norstein, Jiri Trnka or Tex Avery!

It's a feature length only list, so no Yuri Norstein (until he completes the film he's been working on for 30 years!) or Tex Avery. But yes, no Jiri Trnka is pretty terrible. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Old Czech Legends are pretty important and incredible films which are way too overlooked these days.

It's not too bad of a list, too many average family films to my taste, but every list of feature length animated films will be like that. It's really nice to see Starewicz's Le Roman de Renard, Fehérlófia or Night on the Galactic Railroad.

I'd add 25 films to make some variety:
Wolfwalkers (2020, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart)
On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019, Kenji Iwaisawa)
The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
La casa lobo (2018, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña)
Night is Short, Walk on Girl (2017, Masaaki Yuasa)
Wolf Children (2012, Mamoru Hosoda)
Blood Tea and Red String (2006, Christiane Cegavske)
The Thief and the Cobbler (~1993, Richard Williams)
The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988, Ideya Garanina)
Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise (1987, Hiroyuki Yamaga)
Krysar (1986, Jiří Barta)
Angel's Egg (1985, Mamoru Oshii)
Gwen et le livre de sable (1985, Jean-François Laguionie)
Chronopolis (1983, Piotr Kamler)
Habfürdö (1980, György Kovásznai)
Hugó, a víziló (1975, Bill Feigenbaum)
Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975, Ivo Caprino)
Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto)
János Vitéz (1973, Marcell Jankovics)
Bennys badekar (1971, Jannik Hastrup, Flemming Quist Møller)
Adam II (1969, Jan Lenica)
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963, Yugo Serikawa)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959, Jiří Trnka)
Old Czech Legends (1953, Jiří Trnka)
L'horloge magique ou La petite fille qui voulait être princesse (1928, Wladyslaw Starewicz)

I liked the linkage of Takahata's Only Yesterday to Naruse! But how could they leave off Kaguyahime?

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:26 pm

andyli wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:55 am Came across this rather new list from TimeOut when searching for a list for just feature length animation to acccompany Annecy's animated shorts list a few posts above. The latest film included is last year's The Mitchells vs. the Machines. While remaining generous to big studios like Disney, Ghibli and Pixar, the list also reserved plenty slots for filmmakers such as Kon Satoshi, Ralph Bakshi, Jan Svankmajor, etc.

. . and yet no room for Yuri Norstein, Jiri Trnka or Tex Avery!

Or The Plague Dogs, Twice Upon a Time, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronopolis (yes, it's about an hour long, but close enough for a feature), Another Day of Life...

But, hey, all those masterpieces from DreamWorks and Pixar get the long-awaited recognition they need.

Should've posted this a while ago, but MoMA has launched a major exhibition on animation called It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection.

It actually opened August 1st - if you walk around the museum, you'll see exhibits and works from their collection - but they're kicking off their first screening program tonight:

MoMA wrote:Brightening afternoons at the museum for the coming eight months, the Museum kicks off its most ambitious animation retrospective in over eighty-five years of programming with this special evening event. Bringing together key artists from the generation that made New York a center for independent animation in the late 20th century, the program features a trim selection of personal and commissioned work demonstrating the creative range of styles and techniques at play. Following the films, Robby Gilbert, author of “New York Animation 1966-1999: A City in Motion,” will moderate a conversation with John Canemaker, George Griffin, Emily Hubley, Candy Kugel, Jeff Scher, Skip Blumberg and J.J. Sedelmaier, about their careers and pre-digital animation practices on that legendary New York Scene.

They're still selling tickets online so it's not sold out - I have a limited familiarity with this scene, but this is a pretty amazing group of filmmakers they've gathered for tonight.

I’m beyond excited to visit the MOMA and see the exhibit. Sadly, I won’t be able to catch the George Griffin screenings, but I hope these films will get Los Angeles screenings

The MOMA screened a tribute to Cal Arts animated films some years back, and that was a real treat