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I am currently trying to fix a busted PC. And of all damn days for it to happen, I had quite a busy day scheduled - but no matter. Eventually I will have subdued it to my will, and I will then toil deep into the morning hours, providing you all with the wonderful, wordy Disney reviews (and then ...
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With The Rescuers, it seemed that the new blood at the Disney Animation Studios had figured out what was what, and were all pumped up to do something even bigger and better, for with the great majority of the old guard retired or planning on doing so any moment, it was clearly a rich time for ...
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Trauma
The last animated film released by Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s is a transitional work, the handing of the torch from one generation to another. Even though several of the older generation who was still around at this point managed to stick around for one last film, 1977's The Rescuers ...
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In a Fix
It's nice to see that even in the depths of Walt Disney Production's horrible stretch from 1970-1989, there's one truly brilliant spot of brightness, although to call The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh a '70s film is more than a bit disingenuous. Its roots lie in the comparatively strong ...
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You just go on ahead and ignore that Right-Aligned Poster of Dismissal, which I put in only out of a sense of intellectual duty. Because Roland Emmerich's newest disaster epic 2012 is absolutely a bad film, and it would be a disservice for me to argue otherwise. At the same time, it's so ...
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Walt Disney Production's 1973 Robin Hood, I must confess, holds a very important place in my heart. It was while re-watching the film as a young person (for I had a marked tendency to watch Disney films very often in youth) that I first realised that there was such a thing as a Disney picture ...
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And so it was, that Walter Elias Disney was dead, but the company to bear his name continued on. The Florida project that had been the chief focus of the last years of his life was being built with a new intensity of purpose: now it was no longer an East Coast mirror of California's Disneyland, ...
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And now we at last come to the long-awaited "let's just get this Pakula retrospective the fuck over" part of program.In 1973, Alan Pakula married for the second time, following his divorce from Hope Lange in 1971. This second marriage was apparently a much happier one, for he and Hannah Cohn ...
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Morning Glory
There is a famous story told about how Walt Disney, having picked the story for his studio's 19th animated feature in his customary jolly autocratic style, handed copies of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and its sequel to four of his story men - Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, and ...
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Frank Capra is a hard director for me to get a bead on. Once upon a time, he was one of the most successful working filmmakers in Hollywood, only to have his reputation start to tarnish in later years as he was increasingly regarded as an auteur of banal, feel-good corniness. Then, sometime ...
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Following the success of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Walt Disney Production's most contemporary and "hippest" film yet (though "hip" and "Disney" are correctly thought of as mortal enemies to one another), the studio immediately ran as far as possible to the other direction, making a film ...
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It is both convenient and at times very useful to divide Disney's history into certain periods. The simplest (and thus, the least useful) of these divisions is into the classic period - from the beginning to Walt's death - and the modern period. That this is plainly undesirable is because it ...
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The blithering waste of celluloid that was Dream Lover at least had the effect of putting a little juice back into Alan Pakula's career: at the very least, he'd never make such an ossified mediocrity as Sophie's Choice ever again, though mediocrity was certainly part of his career until the ...
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Other Disney films may have had more tortured productions (Alice in Wonderland), had a more dangerously inflated budget (Fantasia), or seen the animators angrier at their lot (Dumbo and Bambi, the two films made during the morale-devouring strike of 1941), but not a single one of them took ...
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There is but one thing more annoying than wanting very much to love a movie, only to find out that it kind of sucks: wanting very much to hate a movie, only to find out that it's pretty good. Other than its atrociously over-compensatory subtitle, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire ...
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1955 was a hell of a year for Walt Disney Productions to even think about releasing an animated feature. This was right after their distribution deal with RKO had been replaced by the in-house Buena Vista Distribution, though that's probably the smallest issue facing the studio. In 1952, the ...
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After Sophie's Choice won piles of undeserved acclaim from critics who, one assumes, were too chickenshit to criticise a movie about the Holocaust, Alan J. Pakula lay silent for a long time. Three years and some months passed until his next movie came out, the longest gap in his career as either ...
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When the Disney Studios released its 14th animated feature, Peter Pan, in 1953, it was two years since their most recent full-length project, Alice in Wonderland. This was the first time that a full calendar year went by without a new Disney feature since 1945. Hold on to this fact, because it's ...
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It is well to say that Richard Kelly has a weird mind. The most prosaic and easy to follow of his three features - that would be 2001's Donnie Darko, a film for which the phrase "cult hit" could have been coined - is most famous for its convoluted circular time-travel narrative and its refusal ...
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Walt Disney's personal history with Charles "Lewis Carroll" Dodgson's Alice novels (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass) extended almost to the earliest days in his career: in 1923, the 21-year-old Disney was based in Kansas City, Missouri, where he and a team of ...
