image courtesy of popcrush.com Anne Hathaway's story starts in 2001, when she went from a completely unknown teenager to the star of The Princess Diaries practically overnight since her big screen debut in 2001, she's been one of the biggest stars in all of Hollywood. She spent a few years doing the wholesome teen-star thing before deliberately blowing that image up - 2005's Brokeback Mountain marked her break from teen films, and then 2006 sealed the deal: The Devil Wears Pr

For this project, I dove headlong into non-English animated films, finding some hidden gems and catching up to some blindspots. Here are the films how I would rank them, with links to my reviews. I'd love to hear about others I haven't seen or your thoughts on any of these films. Coming up next in The Tens: The Hathaway Path-a-way, looking at ten selections from Oscar winner Anne Hathaway's filmography. 10. Bubble Bath (1980) Too crass for me; when subversive has no message,

Image courtesy of hollywoodreporter.com/ MacGuffin, per Wikipedia: an object, device, or event necessary to the plot and to the characters’ motivations, yet insignificant or irrelevant in itself. Is the bag of cash here one of those? It kicks the story into motion and everyone wants it, but somewhere along the way it stops mattering. People are simply greedy, and nobody cares who gets hurt or whether there’s any real payoff at the end. In an unnamed industrial city, a low-lev

image courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com This movie rules. It’s a Czechoslovakian film, but the language the characters speak is just gibberish. And it’s amazing. If Rankin and Bass spent an evening guzzling whiskey and taking downers, it might just result in this. The handmade animation is so meticulously done, like an entire world carved into an elaborate cuckoo clock that moves with a rigid perfection. The characters have no names; they don’t say any actual words. But the w

image courtesy of ifccenter.com Satoshi Kon has an unfortunately short filmography - he died of pancreatic cancer at 46. I haven’t seen his TV work or Tokyo Godfathers, but Perfect Blue is a masterpiece. If you want a more in-depth discussion of his work, check out the podcast Blank Check with Griffin and David for their series on him. But the work I have seen tells a story of how much more he could’ve done. This film premiered the first year of the Best Animated Feature Osca