I think Fantastic Mr. Fox is a terrific and fun movie, but I don’t think it’s Criterion-worthy. I just don’t think it’s as wonderful a piece of filmmaking as his previous efforts have been. I mean, think about the emotional range that Rushmore, Tenenbaums, and Life Aquatic have. Fox doesn’t even touch them. Personally I’d much rather see Darjeeling Limited get the treatment. I think it’s brilliant, and it hasn’t had anything close to a decent release.
Yuri Norstein, Aleksadr Petrov, Karel Zeman, Lotte Reiniger, Aleksandr Ptushko, Coonskin and When The Wind Blows would be great. I think Fantastic Mr. Fox is great and more deserving than Life Aquatic.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is great but Criterion should really give credit to the original 1937 Roman de Renard (The Tale of the Fox) by Starevich. Now that’s amazing stop-motion for the time!
I don’t know Criterion never released Darjaleeing limited so maybe they’d give that a release before Mr.fox?
and I would love to see what criterion would do with Svankmajer’s short films
They DID put out a laserdisc of Akira. That’s a step in the right direction.
http://www.pustan.com/ld/us/akira.html
belive it’s meant for the first dvd ANIMATED release
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I always thought Bakshi’s Coonskin would be an interesting Criterion title, but yeah, some Svankmajer (I greatly prefer Alice to Faust, but both are good … or how about Little Otik?)or Norstein would be wonderful.