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10 Best Animated Movies of All Time

Only once has an animated film every been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars—Beauty and the Beast in 1991—but there's talk that the Academy might give a nod to Wall-E this year. We thought we'd take a look at where the lonely robot stands among a rich history of animated film. There were tons more that we could have added...Fantasia, Pinnochio, The Secret of Nimh, The Triplets of Belleville, The Nightmare Before Christmas, so many other classic Disney films, most everything Pixar has ever released...but we thought we'd just give you our take on the best of the best....  read more

Original version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis recovered

If you were to ask 10 film critics or professors what the most important German film from the silent period was, more than half of them will likely tell you it's Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Like many older films, though, the work had been chopped to pieces in the distribution process. Although notes existed as to what Lang's lost footage contained, the possibility of an original resurfacing has long been assumed impossible. Luckily, the seemingly impossible has happened, and a copy of the original, scratched an torn though it may be, has been unearthed. ...  read more