Kambole Campbell
Freelance Critic
UK
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| Beau travail | 1998 | Claire Denis |
| Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance |
| Dragon Inn | 1967 | King Hu |
| Close-up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| The END OF EVANGELION | 1997 | Hideaki Anno |
| Fehérlofia (SON OF THE WHITE HORSE) | 1981 | Marcell Jankovics |
| It's Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt |
| SENNEN JOYU | 2001 | Satoshi Kon |
| Fantasia | 1940 | Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson |
Comments
A lot of questions have been asked about the purpose of list-making, the need to break canon, and a lot of other worthwhile lines of thought in what “the greatest” means. While admittedly not having landed at an answer to any of that, with limited frame of experience I can at the very least include what I consider essential.
While I’m not going to dedicate the whole list to the best showcases of animation’s idiosyncrasies (I have other interests too), you will see this list skewing in that particular direction, simply because I don’t think that animated film usually gets a fair shake in aggregation such as this. Even with the wonders of its own distinct language, the different kind of democratisation and fragmentation of the roles in making it, the different kind of illusions formed as a result – there's plenty to appreciate. So I’ve picked some important ones, both in the medium as a whole and to me.
Even so, I’m sure I’ll be kicking myself for 10 years about the various last-minute decisions and exclusions I’ve had to make.