Module 12: Eastern Europe

Now we've moved to the other side of Europe, to Eastern Europe. This includes the countries of Russia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. I was less familiar with the films from Eastern Europe because only a handful of films had made their mark in the Best Animated Short category, and Alexander Petrov was responsible for four of them. However, the ones that were honored by the Academy is only the tip of a much larger iceberg. Not to mention the films of Eastern Europe are rich in meaning, possibly due to the impact of being behind the Iron Curtain for decades.

Not much to say here. Let's move on.

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Best Animated Short - 1972 (NSFW)

Well, it doesn't seem like it'll ever get here, but we are on our 40th review. That means we are officially halfway done with reviewing these Oscar nominated shorts! Sure, it took eight months, but it sure as heck doesn't feel that long. And guess what? We still have pitiful page views! Hooray! I'd like to thank my loyal readers, all three of them that I know of: my sisters (one of whom says she mostly skims the reviews) and Christopher Sobieniak. Man, I suck at advertising my blog. I tell people about it but they don't read it.

Meh, but we're halfway through the reviews. We've gone too far to just give up! So let's keep forging on. We are now at 1972, which is a significant year because it saw the introduction of one of the monumental films in American cinematic history...The Godfather

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