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DVD Watch

The two-disc ‘Collected Shorts’ spans 27 years, and while some of the films don’t fully cross the CGI generational divide, you can see in all of them why animators like Tim Burton have been so strongly influenced by Svankmajer’s work
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DVD Watch

Based on one of Robert Crumb’s earliest characters, Fritz the Cat doesn’t exactly survive the test of time and was admittedly off-base to begin with – Crumb famously hated the movie and killed Fritz off in a subsequent comic – but that didn’t diminish the film’s popularity
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Readings

Guy Deutscher, with his always slightly amused tone, manages to turn this ambitiously comprehensive, globe-trotting book into a great layman’s read without sacrificing the integrity of the material
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DVDs

This 1951 film about a middle-class Japanese family trying to arrange a marriage for their ‘aging’ 28-year-old daughter is considered one of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s most characteristic

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