![]() Film-maker Terry Gilliam regards “Crocodiles” as one of the ten best animated films of all time film critic Jonathan Romney one ups him, saying it’s one of the ten best films of all time.The final (and only) narration in “Street of Crocodiles” is voiced by Leszek Jankowski, the film’s composer and a collaborator of the Quays.The BFI insisted that the film be based on a literary source as a condition for funding. It was financed by the British Film Institute, which produced and distributed the Quay’s early works. ![]() “Street of Crocodiles” is inspired by a short story (and story collection of the same name ) by Bruno Schulz.At length, a quartet of funereal tailors offers him a refashioning of uncertain merit. He explores dusty, encrusted back streets and shop fronts teeming with rusted machines while being followed by a young boy. PLOT: Eerie reminiscences unfold when a gaunt man is brought to life after a globule of spittle activates a machine. I spent two years wondering what the hell I’d seen.”– Christopher Nolan on his first viewing of “Street of Crocodiles” ![]() The mystery of the Quay Brothers got its hooks into me. “Late one night, down in my parents’ split level suburban basement, channel-surfing the old-fashioned way, I hit my first taste of Quay- like an electric shock-like nothing I’d ever seen. ![]()
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