The English-translated version of The Snow Queen stuck with me for years after catching it on TV as a young lad in the early '70s.
I recently found this list. Not all European, but lots of them are.
Persepolis, while based on an Iranian woman’s graphic novel, was animated in France and was breathtaking.
Balance was pretty amazing. German, I thnk.
That list that Darren Garrison linked to is a list of animated films posted by Dr-Faustus on YouTube which come from 2000 to 2020. The following list was posted by Dr-Faustus on YouTube and consists of animated films from before 2000. Both lists have some European films but mostly aren’t European:
I just watched I Lost my Body about a disembodied hand searching for its owner. It’s really a story of loneliness and making connections.
Fantadroms, a series of TV cartoons from Latvia in the 80s.Sort of like Yellow Submarine as conceived by Hieromymus Bosch. Somewhat cruddy in execution, but so flat-out bizarre you can’t look away. Main characters are a shape-shifting space cat with a lopsided face who sneezes a lot, a purple lady cat with pseudopods for legs, a floating pink blob and - well, just lots of nutso stuff that defies explanation.
I vote the UK is part of Europe, they just like to pretend they aren’t.
Great short, perhaps the best I ever saw on Liquid TV.
Since we’re doing shorts, check out Fallen Art by Tomek Baginski. I don’t know how to link to the url on YouTube with my iPad.
There’s a lot of us who agree with you, who’ve never been daft enough to pretend 22 miles of sea means we’re nothing to do with the people on the other side.
Ah, such a deliciously desolate ending. Bravo.
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!
I love the Asterix books, but the earliest Asterix animated movies were pretty pitiful.
Not so with the more recent ones. I saw Asterix and the Vikings(2006) and loved it. They’ve done two more Asterix cartoons that I haven’t yet seen (Asterix:The Mansions of the Gods (2014) and Asterix: The SEcret of the Magic Potion (2018)), but they appear to be in the same style.
Why aren’t these released over here? I’ve never seen them in the theaters, on cable, on streaming services, or on DVD (unless you really look for them).
There are also the live-action versions (with Gerard Depardieu as Obelix(!)) that overlap with these recent animated versions in time. I’ve seen a couple of these. They’re OK, but you have to have a lot of “willing suspension of disbelief” for them to work.
I don’t know if it’s among the “best”, but an interestin early French cartoon from 1950 (in color) was Jeannot l’Intrepide (Marketed in the US as Johnny the Giant Killer). It was made by a very small team, apparently. I saw it on TV as a kid, but I haven’t seen or heard of it since, until I went looking for it. You can find the whole film on YouTube
If you liked this, yopu should also have a look at the same director’s film Gandahar, released in the US as Light Years.
The people involved i8n the American release make an impressive list – voices by Glenn Close, Christopher PLummer, Penn and Teller (Yes, Teller), Bridget Fonda. The posters give Isaac Asimov credit for the script for the English-language version, but the Wikipedia article says that he did a “revision” of the translation.
Ah, I’ve been trying to find out what that was since seeing it playing in a bar years ago. Thanks.