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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…how experiencing the continent for real gave their film the right look and informed story points. Jambo Jambo: Swahili Speak is just what you might think it is: a run-through… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…the face of animation forever. Official Selection – 2009 Telluride Film Festival Official Selection – 2009 Toronto International Film Festival Winner, Audience Prize – 2009 Hamptons International Film Festival Winner,… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…Presents Pixar Short Films, featuring twenty animated Pixar shorts, as part of the network’s annual 25 Days of Christmas programming event (December 1-25). The critically-acclaimed short films include the Academy… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…a new Ice Age film from Blue Sky, or Illumination running out of gas with their mediocre Secret Life Of Pets; no, Disney had two certifiably great films come out… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…its visual design to the music and editing. Over a long career that has only yielded a handful of films (Mr. Fox is only Anderson’s sixth film in fifteen years),… |
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The Muppets
…out with this Muppet and making my own Super 8mm films that really gave me the filmmaking bug. Instinctively, I knew how to frame things so that my arms wouldn’t… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Park supplements including peeks behind the scenes of the latter three films and all ten of the Cracking Contraptions shorts. The films themselves reveal new details unnoticeable on the standard… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…to aspire to. As a result, it’s easy to see how the Studio got into the rut of their next few films being very episodic in structure. There is no… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…the more “adult” tone that the film was originally going to be headed, even if some of the rumored stoner gags that were filmed are still a no-show. With optional… |
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“Behind The Tatamis” with Kung Fu Panda‘s Directors!
…films and martial arts graphics, we were all looking at those films and we knew we needed to top them as possible, or at least do something a little bit… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…orchestrator, having crafted the songs for many films, including the Academy Award winning Frozen, Tarzan, Frozen 2, Moana, Wish, and 2022’s Apple TV+ Christmas film Spirited. Many of the songs,… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…that animated films were only for kids. It wasn’t just the public embracing the film, but also film critics and people in the industry. Not since the early days of… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…The Hat well, while an embarrassing Mike Myers film, intended to cash in on Carrey’s Grinch, almost put paid to Seuss on film until Blue Sky Animation’s wonderfully realized Horton… |
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Up
…musical pieces. There are certainly many visual references to other films: Paradise Falls comes straight out of Willis O’Brien’s 1925 film of The Lost World, and the idea of a… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…Logan’s Run, The Black Hole, Tron, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and Blade Runner), the animated sci-fi epic on the block was Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin, which… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…attract the attention of filmmaker Luc Besson, who optioned the book and album for a film. The resulting collaboration is an astounding piece of filmmaking that haunts the viewer as… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…write the music for the music’s sake instead of supporting the film. But generally, with animation, you have room to use counterpoint because an animated film supports a little more… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…a superb edition of 1983’s Rock & Rule from the appropriately named Unearthed Films. Rock & Rule has the distinction of being the very first animated feature that was produced… |
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The Wind Rises
…first time) his retirement from filmmaking. The nature of this film makes it feel like a final film, too, being less fantastic and more grounded in history than his past… |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
…work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world… |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…delegates.” At Jim Hill Media on the Internet, their reviewer wrote, “This is such a multi-layered film that ultimately I can only make one recommendation on the film: If you… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…began with Snow White 40 years earlier. All subsequent films from the Studio were introducing the new generation of artists that would prove their talents, with films like Pete’s Dragon… |
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Chicken Little
…of the rumored production hiccups the film had along the way and, even though he has left this particular nest, Eisner comes out of it well as the filmmakers’ shoulder… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…work includes the Disney animation films Pocahontas, Hercules and Home On The Range, as well as numerous live action films, including the more recent hits Enchanted, Tangled, and Captain America…. |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…both in real world textures and computer renderings. An unwitting look into the way these films are made is exposed in a series of six Deleted Scenes, running just over… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…perspective of Harley Quinn (played in the film by Margot Robbie). This turned out to be a whole lot of fun and made me look forward to the film even… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…Grimm. These and others would have made him a legend, but even before his feature film work he was the creator of a celebrated series of animated films using a… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…some critics hailing it a classic. Oddly enough, it was originally double-billed in Japan with the Ghibli film Grave Of The Fireflies, a devastating World War II film. This may… |
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Cool World
…control, causing bigger headaches than those which feature in the film itself, it all went terribly wrong… The story, such as it is, doesn’t help the film going in, with… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…you joked that John Cleese is terrified of technology. KDM: Exactly! He’s completely convinced that technology is going to ruin the world – that it’s already ruined society to the… |
