Every year again and again my curiosity is filled with one of the greatest animation film festival (Which i can't go too...do cry me a river...) which I'm currently channeling on it's new featured poster Designed by Marion Franck. Ingenious isn't it?
Annecy 2012,a curvacious visual... - Posted a week ago on their Facebook page
Am I the only one reminded of this when seeing this poster? Anyone?
Annecy 2012 Official Selection. Over 2 374 where send to this glorious festival and -if you wondered yes that is more than 300 hours of film- of which the tremendous majority was rejected leaving only the gold after carefully removing the few stones.
As of march 2012 the official selection was made as follow:
Under the category of "TV Series" is an Anime adapted from the manga written by Kazue Kato which is being published in the monthly magazine Jump Square, the Shōnen Equivalent of the more popular Jump. Iwas quite surprised when this particular anime (the only one in the list by the way) was chosen out of the vast variety of submitted/recommended series. It might be time for me to re-watch and re-evaluate this one.
There have been many animations I set my eye on but never had the time nor/or the means to see them. Well... I guess this could be subbed as my "to-watch" list. I better get started then...
An animated biography based on Tatsumi Yoshihiro's 13th Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize winning manga A Drifting Life and his many short works. The movie was first shown at the 64th Cannes Film Festival and again at the 5th Brussels Animation Film Festival (ANIMA 2012).
The well made animation is supposed to capture the feeling of his short stories on the screen and carefully mimic Tatsumi Yoshihiro drawings, which should've worked due to the fact that the whole project was supervised by him. This drama-biography is a gate way to the life and works of a Gekiga veteran and manga pioneer.
A short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage. From IMDB
Damian Nenow
Paths Of Rage is a polish war-drama animation directed and written by Damian Nenow. While I do admit that I know only little of this movie also due to the lack of resource and distribution. I can say that the comic-like visuals drew me to it as I found out that it was screened at the ANIMA 2012-Córdoba Animation Film Festival (Not to be confused with the one in Brussel).
Despite its low interest rate and distribution, it seems to rival with it's more popular peers. if this movie is half as good as I think it is, then this could be up for review as soon as I can find a copy of this animated action-adventure.
Awards won (so far):
Grand Jury Price; ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival
Best Animation & Best Action/Adventure Short; San Diego Comic-Con international Independent Film Festival
From Up On Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂からKokuriko-zaka Kara) is a Japanese animated Drama based on a manga written by Tetsurō Sayama and illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi.
A Miyazaki movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son and written by the one and only Hayao Miyazaki (obviously). I gotta say that gets my blood boiling, especially knowing that the later wants his son to stand on his own to feet without his support or funding (much like Jackie Chan did with his son... without the obvious failure that is).
The movie got it's share of possitive feed back much like it's predecessorThe Secret World of Arriettyand won a Japanese academy award for 'Best Animation Film'. Something to be expected from a Studio Ghibli Film.
Awards won (so far):
Best Animation Film; 35th Japanese Academy Prize
That's about it...
Well... I think that it's pretty obvious that I saved my best pick for last. But I am really looking forward to see all of them and to focus on more recent works (non-Ghibli this time...).
