Shazka skazok (Tale of Tales)

November 16th, 2007

Directed by Yuriy Norshteyn and written by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya and Yuriy Norshteyn.

Description: To my shame I have to admit I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t gotten around to watching this fully, just skipped through a few scenes, was impressed, so I’m just going to throw in a comment from IMDB that makes a good case: “Using a mix of puppet, cutout, and cell animation, Yuri Norstein made in Tale of Tales a heartbreaking, tenderly poetic meditation on Russian history as well as one of the most stunningly beautiful animated films ever. Very hard to get, but don’t miss a chance to see this film.”. Apparently this was also named the greatest animated film of all-time by the 1984 Animation Olympiad jury held in conjunction with the 1984 LA Olympics.

IMDB link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0079986/

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Seryi volk & Krasnaya Shapochka

October 27th, 2007

Written and directed by Garry Bardin.

Description: Many consider this to be a true gem of modern russian animation, produced in a society where censorship was losing control and depicting a funny perspective of the decaying USSR. This is a comical remix and mix at the same time of stories such as the Little red riding hood, The three little pigs and Snow white, a cocktail of russian irony and american culture. Even though it is in russian, the picture is subtitled and is a really funny wonderful watch.

IMDB link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0210974/

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