bitter films

General Info

Role:
FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 1, _FilmMakerRole = Director) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 5, _FilmMakerRole = Animator) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 2, _FilmMakerRole = Producer)
Website
bitterfilms.com
Influences
stanley kubrick
monty python
david lynch
walt disney
buster keaton
stan brakhage
edward gorey
Awards

2001 Academy Award Nominee

2007 Grand Jury Award Winner, Sundance Film Festival
1998 Short Film Palm D’Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival

+ over 150 film festival awards

Photos

Blurbs

About me:

:::: Production on Chapter 3 of Everything will be OK is underway, now that the 2008-2009 tour has finally come to a close. THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the tour such a smashing success and an amazing series of evenings to remember. Don premiered I am so proud of you in autumn 2008 on a whirlwind tour of 16 cities and carried on in 2009 for a grand total of 33 shows in 22 cities, four countries, about 30 hours of embarrassing onstage interviews, and one secret new cartoon. Chapter 3 is about two-thirds written and is being animated right now.

Be sure to always visit the BITTER FILMS HOMEPAGE for Don's journal, all the latest current events, release dates, screening news, and sad and meaningless blinking lights.

..DVD CATALOG..

BITTER FILMS - VOLUME 1: the first ten years of don hertzfeldt's landmark animated films, lovingly restored and remastered in high definition + hours of special features.....

anthology dvd available
exclusively online

..the films..

AH, L'AMOUR
GENRE
LILY AND JIM
BILLY'S BALLOON
REJECTED
THE MEANING OF LIFE

..the special features.. ..

: WATCHING GRASS GROW:
ANIMATING "THE MEANING OF LIFE"
: THE ANIMATION SHOW TRILOGY CARTOONS
: THE BITTER FILMS ARCHIVES: AN EXHAUSTIVE 140+ PAGE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF RARE MATERIALS, INCLUDING:

RARE FOOTAGE FROM DON'S EARLIEST CARTOONS
ORIGINAL PENCIL TESTS
DELETED SEQUENCES
ABANDONED "SPANKY THE BEAR SHOW" FOOTAGE
SKETCH TO SCENE COMPARISONS
EXTENSIVE PRODUCTION NOTES
NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS!
BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS!

:"LILY AND JIM" DELETED DIALOGUES
: "REJECTED" TEXT COMMENTARY
: "THE MEANING OF LIFE" SPECIAL EFFECTS DOCUMENTARY
: "REJECTED" AUDIO COMMENTARY
: "LILY AND JIM" REUNION COMMENTARY
: "AH, L'AMOUR" BONUS 2005 SOUNDTRACK
: PREVIEW OF "EVERYTHING WILL BE OK"
: "ANIMATION SHOW" FEATURETTE AND INTERVIEWS
: 16 PAGE RETROSPECTIVE BOOKLET
: BRAND NEW ANIMATED MENUS AND TRANSITIONS ..

not to mention....

everything will be ok + i am so proud of you limited edition DVDs

......

featuring restored and remastered high definition film transfers,
curious booklets, alternate narration-free versions of the films, and
archives featuring over 250 pages of deleted scenes, sketches,
production notes, alternate takes, regrets, abandoned ideas,
embarrassing asides, and all the usual nonsense

exclusively available
@ BITTER FILMS