Am loving the articles and encourage you to keep up the great work. Although the historical articles are certainly very interesting, l wouldn’t mind reading some more up to date articles. And would it be possible to include an alert to any new animated movies that have been released on dvd, particularly the obscure titles. Or perhaps give information where one can be updated about these releases. Cheers
Thanks very much! So glad you're enjoying the newsletter. And you make a good point: we could stand to do a few more current stories like this one. As for DVD releases, we do try to mention them in the news when one really catches our attention, but it's true that we don't always get to them. A site that might be of interest is Animation for Adults, which covers a ton of Blu-ray and DVD releases each week: https://www.animationforadults.com/
Can't wait for The Girl with the Occupied Eyes to be public! Seems like the perfect intersection of a fresh style that's still very appealing to a mass audience - like many children's books tend to be. Thanks for sharing it!
Glad we could -- we've been hoping to watch it since the teaser dropped earlier this year, but it still beat our expectations. And you're right: it does feel like it could have mainstream appeal if things line up. It's just so engaging and well made!
To be honest, I can't wait for the moment they cancel Russians. I grow tired from their point of view on everything, Russians this, Russians that, who cares? The world is going up in flames and with your direct help and all they can say is "welp, my fascist government gives me less monies, sadface". The guide published is not fun and borderline offensive, and the person written it is just bad and disingenuous. I consider unsubscribing, if this kind of things is going to be promoted.
We're certainly not aiming to promote far-right Russian politics. Bronzit has spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine, and against many other actions of the Putin regime. The scholar who shared his guide on Telegram is no nationalist himself. This is just the very cynical opinion of a two-time Oscar nominee who's seen a lot of festival films. Everyone is free to disagree with the things he wrote -- we definitely have reservations about them ourselves. But they're more about his frustration with the festival scene (and with what he views as the exploitation of real-world hardship and tragedy to win awards) than anything else.
It's not about Ukraine, it's about the person and his take. I am from Russia and I can see more than just a cynical opinion: a barely hidden mockery. We have there a very ugly saying usually reserved for the modern art, I am not going to write that (I looked into FB comments, and yes, he put a like to a person, who said a very close thing), it is homophobic, ableist and unsurprisingly xenophobic, and he paraphrased it into one of his takes in this "guide".
Thank you so much for the review of our film! It made my day.
Ah, this is wonderful to read! Thank you for making such a fantastic film -- and wishing you lots more success with it.
Not gonna lie - I’m a little mad about the aninimanimal thing… that’s gonna be stuck in my head for days.
Haha, it's the same for us! This festival was our first time coming across the film, and that song has been haunting us since.
I see - you suffer so we all must suffer! Kidding. Thanks as always for your post.
Am loving the articles and encourage you to keep up the great work. Although the historical articles are certainly very interesting, l wouldn’t mind reading some more up to date articles. And would it be possible to include an alert to any new animated movies that have been released on dvd, particularly the obscure titles. Or perhaps give information where one can be updated about these releases. Cheers
Thanks very much! So glad you're enjoying the newsletter. And you make a good point: we could stand to do a few more current stories like this one. As for DVD releases, we do try to mention them in the news when one really catches our attention, but it's true that we don't always get to them. A site that might be of interest is Animation for Adults, which covers a ton of Blu-ray and DVD releases each week: https://www.animationforadults.com/
Can't wait for The Girl with the Occupied Eyes to be public! Seems like the perfect intersection of a fresh style that's still very appealing to a mass audience - like many children's books tend to be. Thanks for sharing it!
Glad we could -- we've been hoping to watch it since the teaser dropped earlier this year, but it still beat our expectations. And you're right: it does feel like it could have mainstream appeal if things line up. It's just so engaging and well made!
thank you for introducing us to all these wonderful films!
Happy to do so! Hopefully they'll all be online before too long -- there are gems in there that more people need to see.
To be honest, I can't wait for the moment they cancel Russians. I grow tired from their point of view on everything, Russians this, Russians that, who cares? The world is going up in flames and with your direct help and all they can say is "welp, my fascist government gives me less monies, sadface". The guide published is not fun and borderline offensive, and the person written it is just bad and disingenuous. I consider unsubscribing, if this kind of things is going to be promoted.
We're certainly not aiming to promote far-right Russian politics. Bronzit has spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine, and against many other actions of the Putin regime. The scholar who shared his guide on Telegram is no nationalist himself. This is just the very cynical opinion of a two-time Oscar nominee who's seen a lot of festival films. Everyone is free to disagree with the things he wrote -- we definitely have reservations about them ourselves. But they're more about his frustration with the festival scene (and with what he views as the exploitation of real-world hardship and tragedy to win awards) than anything else.
It's not about Ukraine, it's about the person and his take. I am from Russia and I can see more than just a cynical opinion: a barely hidden mockery. We have there a very ugly saying usually reserved for the modern art, I am not going to write that (I looked into FB comments, and yes, he put a like to a person, who said a very close thing), it is homophobic, ableist and unsurprisingly xenophobic, and he paraphrased it into one of his takes in this "guide".
so many great resources! thank you again. so glad i found y’all! there’s more than one of you (its just not possible)…?
Thank you! And yes, there are two of us here (Jules and John) who run the day-to-day of the newsletter. Even with two people, it's a lot to handle!