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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…The filmmakers talked about some of the difficulties they encountered, including an influential film editor suggesting they cut the film to run in chronological order. This was fortunately averted when… |
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The Incredibles
…addition, the film kept going through title changes, and nearly arrived on screens as The Invincibles before The Incredibles title meant every review wound quoting the name of the film… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…feels a little too closely linked to his role in the Rio films. Nevertheless, Shiny does work much better in the film with its, well, shiny visual accompaniment (that, intentionally… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…film school to pursue a career as a filmmaker. After completing his studies in 1986, he secured his first job on a western movie-of-the-week entitled Desperado. Relocating to Los Angeles… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…run both units. The results have been mixed, to be fair: after Lasseter was charged with “rescuing” a couple of already-in-production films he had more say over the reintroduction of… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…again than Blade Runner 2049, a film that I thought was a masterpiece, yet did not really warm towards. The film I disliked the most in 2017, especially considering the… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…those films. In fact, Lasseter’s early exposure to Walt’s films of the time is again evident here: Nessie is produced with such a reverent eye to the Studio’s films of… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…the event picture he saw unfolding on screen that he vowed to remake the film when he became a world class director. The film was, of course, the 1976 version… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…the near future. Just refer to it as a film, as filmmaking. That being said, I would love to see filmmakers enter animation as a filmmaker and, especially for American… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…Davy Crockett phenomenon and often peeking behind the scenes of his animated and live action films of the time, which included his first true live-action film Treasure Island and the… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…two groundbreakers came out in the run-up to part three’s theatrical release, but thankfully they weren’t stop-gag editions that we all rushed out to purchase – hey, Toy Story in… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…it was this footage that was leaked out as the film’s initial teaser trailer. There is some great stuff in the rest of the film, though: the animation is by… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…of the film’s complete songs (as opposed to reprises and smaller moments) with or without optional sing-along subtitles in play. A Play All option runs them all through, but why… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…great Disney film, but it’s certainly one of the Studio’s better efforts of the late 1990s. This long-rumored Special Edition DVD does the film justice in more ways than one,… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…First full-length animated feature produced by Walt Disney, the first American animated feature film in movie history. • First film to have a soundtrack album released. • First Disney film… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Drafthouse Films (March 14 2015), MVD Entertainment/Drafthouse Films (August 16 2016), Blu-ray plus DVD, 93 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition widescreen 1.78:1, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated, Retail: $34.95 Storyboard:… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…while circulating on the various film festival venues. Unfortunately, even these films nowadays might receive even less exposure. Big studios are now producing short films “advertisements”, campaigns of their upcoming… |
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WALL•E: Angus MacLane’s burning love for BURN•E!
It’s almost a tradition, now, for a computer animated film to be accompanied by a new animated short – and in Pixar’s cases usually a “side-story” that runs parallel to… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…live-action films of the time, which included his first true live-action film Treasure Island (1950) and the epic adventure 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, also of 1955. It was often… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…what we portray in the film, but we tried to take the core of what a child goes through and fit it into 25 minutes of film. Originally, the film… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…Disney film. CS: We’re really proud of that film from the standpoint that we set off to try and kind of break some conventions within the animated film arena in… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…In Wonderland is practically an all-digitally animated film, and given the audience trend for eating up 3D films at the moment, you’d have thought the film might have been prepared… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…reverse of the first film. Later films bypassed this by inserting themselves as “unseen” scenes within the originals (both Bambi and Tarzan sequels attempt to fill in “missing” moments from… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…providing his last score for an MGM film. There’s a Hungarian undercurrent running through the film: Pal as producer, obviously, enlisted co-countryman Rózsa to come out of retirement to score… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…films he makes: a film fan making movies for film fans. And through them all has been this anarchic sense of the absurd, something that mainly seems to spring from… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…say, less than stellar achievements in the art form. However, all the animated films had their place and time in the evolution of the animated film. Films like Mickey’s Christmas… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…a classic film from an era when there were a great deal of classic films being produced. I’ve always thought about it as an animated Citizen Kane: a movie that… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…and into the next. The animation in these films can certainly be easily placed next to other contemporary films of their time, with some stand out sequences, especially Rupert’s undersea… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Disney’s animation unit itself didn’t have a new film in release, but the combined strength of recent acquisitions Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm made sure that the likes of Inside Out,… |
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Wizards
…characters turn up looking like rejects from that film). Ironically, for a film about technology, it seems he didn’t have the tools he needed to complete this film along the… |
