tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post6020767140112687801..comments2023-05-21T17:01:28.132+02:00Comments on a gem a day: The Tale of Tales (Сказка сказок)Skazkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00674229618065291212noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post-77673013938772370242009-05-08T16:04:00.000+02:002009-05-08T16:04:00.000+02:00I am completely smitten by Медвежонок (bear) and К...I am completely smitten by Медвежонок (bear) and Кто-то (Someone). <br />Did you notice how Ёжик acts out an internal dialogue with Медвежонок while pursued by Филин, and then it actualy takes place? As always. Only, this time Медвежонок adds: <br />"И... и... и... и в... и в... ведь кто же, кроме тебя, звёзды-то считать будет?!"<br />(And... and... and... and loo... and loo... look who but you will count these stars?!)Skazkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674229618065291212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post-80751737452385206792009-05-08T13:30:00.000+02:002009-05-08T13:30:00.000+02:00LOL, I'd almost bet - imagine this: a pencil falls...LOL, I'd almost bet - imagine this: a pencil falls on the floor [sound of wood touching wood] while a slightly absent-minded tall figure lurks in the distance and improvidently taps over his coffee-cup. Yuri bends down into the darkness under his working table [sounds of birds outside his dacha] to rescue the damn thing, while doing that, his wooden chair - oh, misfortune! - looses balance and slips on the coffee stain [sound of 12 violins in short strokes piling up into a Hitchcock-eanesque high pitched AaaaaAAaaa]. Yuri falls on the floor [tough sound of violent fall]. Brief silence. Yuri gets up again, shouting of pain, his arm limp as a penis of a very old drunken diva. His only thought: "Oh my God, the Overcoat - delayed again!!!"<br /><br />PS: Hedghog is a legend. We use some words of it as a quote in our household - "PSYHO," for example, or "JOŽIK!!" Oh, just can't beat the feeling. :DAnjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09000174361369599599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post-76617012830733945132009-05-08T11:24:00.000+02:002009-05-08T11:24:00.000+02:00And, btw, he had been working on Overcoat for clos...And, btw, he had been working on Overcoat for close to 30 years now... How did he break his arm? Drawing? Lol, 'figures.Skazkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674229618065291212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post-23729311111532242292009-05-08T11:07:00.000+02:002009-05-08T11:07:00.000+02:00Some excerpts of Overcoat leeked (perhaps even by ...Some excerpts of Overcoat leeked (perhaps even by Yuri himself). See at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjSGIjGy1qQ<br />I will be posting more of Norstein, and soon; I am one of those who think that Skazka Skazok is in fact the second best animation in the world. The first best is Hedgehog in the Fog, by, ahem, Yuri Norstein. My personal favourite is Heron and Crane.Skazkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674229618065291212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3040206767641817410.post-82000132065198136042009-05-04T13:00:00.000+02:002009-05-04T13:00:00.000+02:00It's one of my favorite animation movies ever, may...It's one of my favorite animation movies ever, maybe also because it's one of those art works you can't get enough of - in this case, probably also because it's made to remain an ultimate puzzle. <br /><br />I hear Norstein is now for years working on an animation movie after Gogol's novel Overcoat, but since he is doing everything by hand, is known to be rather perfectionist by nature and recently broke his arm, I suspect it might all, well, take some more time than previously expected.Anjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13193643375918282020noreply@blogger.com