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Animation Show - Volume 1

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Animation Show - Volume 1 (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 18  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Synopsis:
Curated by Mike Judge (BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD) and Academy Award-winner Don Hertzfeld (REJECTED), this program of exceptional animated shorts includes numerous award-winning pieces. The stated goal is to bring animated work into theaters, and as such the selection is impeccable. This... [More]
Curated by Mike Judge (BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD) and Academy Award-winner Don Hertzfeld (REJECTED), this program of exceptional animated shorts includes numerous award-winning pieces. The stated goal is to bring animated work into theaters, and as such the selection is impeccable. This collection features the work featured in the first year of the program. [Less]

Genre: Television

Director: Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 30, 1999

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Animatics and Motion Tests
  • Audio Commentary - Bill Plympton, Corky Quakenbush
  • Featurettes - 1. Early Pencil Tests and Other Experiments - Mike Judge
  • 2. History of the ANIMATION SHOW

Text/Photto Galleries:

  • Photo Album - "The Rocks"
  • Storyboard to Scene Comparison - "La Course A L'Abime"

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Contains the most varied line-up of films you're likely to see in theaters at the moment.

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12/05/06 07:30 AM
Ethan Alter
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08/19/05 03:15 AM
Joshua Land
Village Voice
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06/04/05 03:52 AM
Dallas Morning News
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Less about yuks than about the fine-arts aspect of animation.

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04/08/05 05:45 PM
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star
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03/24/05 10:16 PM
Film Journal International
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03/21/05 11:13 PM
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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03/11/05 10:15 PM
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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03/04/05 10:15 PM
Chicago Tribune
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... a welcome return to celebrating the engaging, unexpected and creative examples of contemporary animated short filmmaking.

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02/24/05 10:05 PM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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For fans of ink and paint, we're talking nirvana.

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02/24/05 03:44 PM
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
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Animation fans, no matter their stylistic preference (computer-generated, claymation, old-school hand-drawn), will find much to sate their appetites in this collection of award-winning and critically acclaimed work.

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02/17/05 01:56 PM
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly
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Boasting six Academy Award nominees for best animated short, the program richly rewarded its audience with comedy, kitsch, and wisdom.

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03/27/04 08:25 AM
Martin Scribbs
Mixed Reviews
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An enjoyable collection of 19 animated shorts from around the world.

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02/09/04 05:25 PM
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's hard to give much credit to a 'new' animation compilation that has highlights dating back 10, 20 and, yes, 45 years.

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02/02/04 05:21 PM
Paul Sherman
Boston Herald
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Judge and Hertzfeldt don’t seem to have any criteria in mind beyond selecting stuff they like.

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01/09/04 10:42 AM
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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Not everything Judge and Hertzfeldt have chosen is top-drawer, but their anthology contains enough gems to make it worth a look.

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01/05/04 01:11 PM
Frank Swietek
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The Animation Show should attract many fans of its genre — and maybe even create a few new ones.

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12/31/03 05:23 PM
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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It's like watching Saturday morning cartoons again, only they're teaching you something, they're on a much bigger screen and without the commercials.

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12/24/03 11:43 PM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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An interesting collection of shorts that hopefully makes people realize you can tell a good story (or at least a sick one) in under ten minutes.

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12/24/03 11:31 AM
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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