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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…of the old Mousetro himself. Well, more fool him, because there’s certainly something about this Mary! Though Walt Disney’s personal touch is said to be all over The Jungle Book,… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…There’s no trash. There are the visual cannons from the first film where the mind is very translucent, or subsurface-y, with bright colors. So, I tried to play with those… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
…something wonderful about telling a story from the point of discovery where you are learning something new. There is an energy – like you cannot wait to tell somebody about… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…making this behind-the-scenes something so relatable. This is really inspiring, you know – there was that segment when I talk about my divorced parents and how that had an influence… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…short, the animation in Aria, I believe, has its ups and downs. You can tell when there’s an animator with more time and when there’s an animator who just wants… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…color, and however good the intentions behind them may be, it does seem like a solution to something which isn’t actually the problem. As always, there were too many passings… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…since the first movie did it so stealthily while here there were no secrets. Just goes to prove that like there’s no one right way to play with Legos, there’s… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…not all voices are great. On She-Ra, I particularly get irritated by Glimmer and Mantenna’s voices. Something about them just doesn’t match their physique, in my opinion. Final Cut: When… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…if anything is amiss in a big action movie like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, it’s the lack of much big action. Sure, there is intrigue, there’s danger and there are… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Storyboard: Wind’s in the East, Mist’s comin’ in… Like something is brewin’, About to begin… The Sweatbox Review: There’s certainly something about this Mary! Though Walt Disney’s personal touch is… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…Magic documentary fares less well: while there’s nothing inherently wrong with its travels to disc, the letterboxed nature of the multiple new interview segments make it clear that there’s a… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…ourselves about our own stories of loss, in particular, the first time we really remembered experiencing loss in our lives. Out of that session of sharing came a story about… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…square-jawed hero. There’s so much to see, though, that multiple viewings are essential just to pick out all the details, something that the brief length fortunately allows. In fact, there… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…But honestly there’s so much nuance in the balance, placement and proportion the way he came together. There are details in this design that you may not notice by looking… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…saying that because we’re not over Bing Bong yet!). Not that there’s anything “wrong” with that, per se, when it was as funny and entertaining as it was. And audiences… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…narration felt like these poems belonged together on a deeper level all along. There’s a beautiful connecting motif permeating the book: It’s all about fiercely determined female protagonists revolting against… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…pretty much involved in the narration. KP: This would be my third movie working with composer Mark Mothersbaugh. There’s something very special about working with artists who really trust each… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…something cinematic about what we do sort of naturally and he asked us if we would like to pitch for TV or film. Of course, we agreed because it was… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…if I was going to do it again, I would only write about a topic that a lot of people would want to read about. Once I became engrossed in… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…Mary meets a boy named Peter, and though their relationship is initially somewhat antagonistic, they immediately share a type of bond. Mary dislikes Peter, who teases her about her wild… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…but it was your dream of Paris. That’s really what we wanted to bring to life: let people walk into their dream of Paris. AV: There’s something really reminiscent of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…a mouse named Amos is actually responsible for all the achievements of Benjamin Franklin. There may to lots to admire about the short— such as the terrific animation, and interesting… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #54: Mary Poppins – Jack of All Accents
…Mary Poppins a witch or fairy? Do Mary Poppins and Nanny McFee belong to the same nanny organization? • Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews casting story, Oscar acceptance speech, very serious… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…but if there is a “war” going on in the industry right now, then streaming is winning it, for better or for worse. True, there were still some huge box… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…talked a lot about those stories, about how there’s movies for kids and then there’s movies about kids. Like E.T. and Stand By Me — those are about kids, but… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…that break with reason. There is something largely conceptual about that drive. It’s a strange compulsion, innately human. AV: Your approach seems very metaphoric. RJ: There are definitely visual elements,… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…did you choose stop motion? DB: I’ve always enjoyed stop motion. I grew up with the Rankin/Bass holiday specials. There is something so charming and enchanting about the art form…. |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…over. People can say whatever they like about Tom Cruise [right], but there’s no denying he’s practically a human special effect at this point. How he keeps doing this is… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…be behind us, but we are now in the midst of a “tripdemic”: there’s conflict in Europe, and we all know about the crazy inflation at the grocery store and… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…and there was certainly a fine promotional push for them, but neither MGM or theatre crowds were excited about them. The conventional line is that the Flip cartoons had nothing… |
