It seems to me that unless animation tells stories that live action cannot, or tells them better, then it is a dying branch of movie-making, and let's not bother. Now they're simple choices made on the basis of taste and money. If animation is indistinguishable from reality, does it have any particular artistic value? Does it not simply reduce the category to a sub-category of special effects, a technical Oscar like glass painting or green-screen technician? William Demille used to teach a course on title writing and, yes, there are still titles used in the body of a movie, but there's no Oscar for Best Title Writing, just as color cinematography and black and white cinematography no longer have separate categories. It might have been reality for all I could tell and that's what's disturbing.

Last year's show had me mildly concerned one of the nominees was Garden Party (2017), a CGI effort, in which a roving camera wanders around a house, looking at all the frogs. It's back from the IFC where we saw the Best Animated Shorts Nomination (plus three others) show, my cousin and me. Striking work all done just around the time he broke through with Women in Love in 1969. The others were Dante's Inferno with Oliver Reed as Rossetti, Dance of the Seven Veils with Christopher Gable as Richard Strauss, and Song of Summer with Max Adrian as Frederick Delius. The American series ran from 19520-61 The British series ran from 1967-03! Not sure if there is any real connection.

Quite a stunning film, all in black and white.Ĭalling Stephen Cooke! Can you verify that this is the same series called Omnibus that I vaguely recall ran on the CBC in the late 60s? Or am I thinking of a Fletcher Markle series by the same name? Russell's provocative in-your-face visual style mixes up the imagery and sound to create an exciting mishmash that uses everything from silent movie sequences to anachronistic music like 'Ain't She Sweet.' Judith Paris is excellent as the sickly Elizabeth Siddal, and Russell makes the most of some location shooting in the Lake District and Oxford (including Exeter College). I caught one called Dante's Inferno in which Russell takes a look at the the pre-raphaeliite brotherhood in a film centering on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, played by Oliver Reed.

There was a Brit series called Omnibus that started in 1967 and Russell made several films for this series. In 1967 Ken Russell was working a lot in TV.

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