DVD : The Best of Zagreb Film - Nudity Required
from: Image Entertainment
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305869665
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305869669
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Running Time: 59 minutes
Sales Rank: 70938
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
Description:
In four decades, Zagreb Film of Yugoslavia produced 600 animated films, winning more than 400 international awards. The studio quickly became famous for a unique animation style that became known as "the Zagreb school." One of the pioneering distinctions was that its filmmakers wrote, designed, and directed their own films, resulting in boldly entertaining cartoons unified in design, tone and message. The seven films included in this volume explore imagery and the human condition with equal parts beauty and outrageousness. Includes: Way to Your Neighbor, Satiemania, Album, Plop, The Match, Dream Doll, Mouseferatu.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Mark Anderson of the first review gets all my respect. Not because I share his views, but because he tried to look at this animation without any preconceived ideas. He gives a very good description without being overtly critical, I am going to try to do the same giving the opposite opinion. I have to admit that to the average American this probably is not their idea of a funny Simpson episode. No criticism here, just underlining the difference. I think the shorts are very provocative and well done, but hey, it's no Futurama, if that is what you are looking for. Most New Yorkers would probably enjoy it, if you are from Kansas probably not. I am not being judgemental with one or the other, but we all know the difference, and I am just trying to help out people decide whether they might like it or not. Like many more artistic forms of expression is not so much the story itself, but what is behind it that is more interesting. Decide first whether you identify more with the intellectual in a smokey coffee place in Paris, or the Oklahoma guy who likes to drink a few Budweisers in some bar with sticky floors, then you can decide whether you have a chance to buy it or not.
Rating:  -
Apparently Croatian animation company, Zagreb Film, has been busy over the past 40 years or so. According to the film's opening they've "produced 600 animated films, winning more than 400 international awards" and coined a style known as "the Zagreb school."
OK, being the ugly American I am, I had no idea any of this was going on. So, in an effort to broaden my knowledge of animation, and indeed the world, I added "The Best of Zagreb Film - Nudity Required" to my Netflix queue.
I felt so worldly when it arrived and I meant to dig in and see what this was all about. I mean, come on, it has the word "nudity" right in the title! How bad can it be?!
About two weeks later (I'm a busy guy, what can I say!) I've finally found the time sit down and really give this collection some time and attention and here's what I've come up with:
Wow. This is some really weird stuff.
It's not as if I was looking for Disney-esque animation with singing forest animals or anything, but this was outside even my broad expectations.
I'll review each short individually, starting with:
"Way to Your Neighbor" by Nedeljko Dragic
This odd little film portrays a rotund character showering, applying deodorant and playing his genitalia like a bass before dressing in a tux and driving an X-8 tank out of his garage.
That's the cartoon.
Apparently it's very funny, but I don't get it.
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being VJ/videoartist and looking mostly for really unusual stuff, I was enormously excited by this collection volume. two films are so visually and dramatically intense, you may just get drowned in them. yet another one is _very_ funny story. and all the others will not disappoint you as well (unless of course you prefer simple linear-minded stupid cartoons)
amongst couple of dozens animation collections i have and use, this one is rated The Second (The First is french issue Animation 2000).
Rating: -
This video is great, if you like animation. The shorts are funny, serious, and thought provoking. Alot of the animation is superb, but alot of it is also kind of cheesy, but you get used to it. Having grown up with these movies, I am pleased to see that someone has finally released them to DVD and video. If you are really into the animation scene, or of Croatian heritage, you must definately check this out. Others, beware, it may not be your cup of tea.
Cheers.
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