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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…clip is happy to point out who won what at the Oscars that year but fails to mention Bambi’s three nominations, which also go unmentioned anywhere else too! A collection… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…I’ve often compared legendary producer-director Irwin Allen’s career to that of Walt Disney’s. In action films, from competing as a purveyor of documentary nature films (and winning an Oscar for… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…(and before finding renewed recognition in The Rocketeer, Edward Scissorhands and, more recently, his Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine), appears again here, teamed up with The Godfather’s James Caan in a… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…awarded by an Oscar nomination, between score composers Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith. Three characters, three different personalities, three different talents that created together a new artform… |
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DWA: Shrek musical on DVD; no Monsters Vs Aliens sequel; future slate announced
DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg announced Tuesday that Shrek The Musical, the Broadway edition of the company’s Oscar-winning animated film, was DVD bound in “unique packaging”. Grossing $380 worldwide, this year’s… |
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Demme to animate Zeitoun
Jonathan Demme, Oscar winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, is planning to bring the book Zeitoun to the big screen as an animated film, according to the NY… |
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Twice as many Best Pictures choices stump the experts!
The Hollywood Reporter suggests the doubling of entries in the Best Picture Academy Awards race could have a major effect on future Oscar winners…or not. Will it mean more space… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…or their rival, DreamWorks. But since Ice Age, Robots and, especially, Horton Hears A Who! I’ve been particularly impressed with the Studio headed up by Bunny Oscar-winner Chris Wedge, and… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…Fantastic Mr Fox is unconventional, but it still delivers all the beats for mainstream commercial and critical success, and if the early Oscar buzz ends up being valid, I hope… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…were popular and Filmation delivered on the requisite action and fanciful bad guys. The writing (primarily by Oscar Bensol, who often explores Superman’s confounding by magic) is pretty intense too,… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…with the combination of the two Studios most recently producing the Oscar-nominated The Hours. One must also remember that, before heading up Disney from 1984 onwards, the Paramount chiefs were…Michael… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…shame it was that the Weinsteins didn’t put Arthur forward for any Oscar consideration, since this track might have been in with a chance. In The Recording Studio With Jewel… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…known footnote in animation history, the most recent nod being an obscure reference as the nickname of the animated Oscar-type awards in Friz Freleng’s late-1970s compilation feature The Looney, Looney,… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…and winning this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar for The Incredibles – about as far as one could get away from The Plague Dogs if searching for polar opposites! The… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…several screenings of the Academy screener sent out for the film’s consideration for the Oscars. But I have to say that I just find the film inexcusably funny, and it… |
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Chicken Little
…making one very tired very quickly of the Barenaked Ladies’ one-time Oscar hopeful theme song from the movie. We get One Little Slip three times (all around 3 minutes): once… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…Oscar winner for The Incredibles – as about as far as one could go from The Plague Dogs if searching for polar opposites! The drawing here is amazingly lifelike and… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…the Disney style of movie musical composition, with the Oscar-nominated Journey To The Past also the clear favorite with score composer David Newman, who uses it for his main theme… |
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The Animated Views Looney Launch Winners!
…talking lots of hare: yes it’s Bugs as only Bugs can be (including 1958’s Oscar-winning Best Cartoon Short Knighty Knight Bugs) and you’ll tawt you taw a puddy tat and… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…theatrically with Stuart Little II and Men In Black II, The ChubbChubbs ended up only appearing on the MIIB DVD after winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short, as well… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…park itself, for a parade of characters and the joining to the family of Mary Poppins and her chimney sweep friends, who perform that movie’s Oscar-winning song Chim, Chim, Cher-ee…. |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…with an Oscar nomination for Best Short. Mickey looks the better of the two, but these appear to be the same composite video transfers as before, lacking the remastering that… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…thrown into the mix even when dealing with him specifically. The big-name authoritative interview catch is John Canemaker, here credited not as a historian but as an Oscar Winning Animator,… |
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Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E: 3-Disc – Winner!
…the universe. Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton’s beautiful story is a love letter to the Golden Age of sci-fi films. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built… |
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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…Destino and the long-delayed Disneyland documentary, with an anticipated collection of Oscar nominated and winning shorts known to be in the pipeline. Perhaps the Legacy line will even outshine the… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…see that, although it didn’t manage to garner any Oscar nominations (I’d have swapped Superman Returns‘ visual effects contender in a heartbeat), the Ben Stiller-Dick Van Dyke-Mickey Rooney triple-hander Night… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…find it not only convenient that the news comes as DreamWorks unveiled its new “movie-and-a-sequel-a-year” model, but also so close after last week’s Oscar nominations. Could a nod for Academy… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…Chris Renaud, Oscar-nominated for No Time For Nuts, a very funny short produced for the Ice Age 2 DVD. It’s an interesting discussion, during which Chris fills in his background… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…moments including the signature three-note fanfare for our hero. Unbelievably, neither the songs nor score were even nominated for Oscars, though Disney did pick up four awards that year for… |
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Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie trailer sees titular dollhouse get stolen
…in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera (Oscar® nominee Kristen Wiig), Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back… |
