Run The Series: Disney Plus Animated Features
So far reviewed: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | Melody Time | Fun and Fancy Free | The Three Caballeros | Saludos Amigos | Bambi | Dumbo | The Reluctant Dragon | Fantasia | Pinocchio | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2019 movie viewings, #145. By the end of the 1940s, Disney had already gone through and completed its "Golden Age" era, the six features heavily influenced by Victorian and…
2020 movie viewing, #3. One of the many films, it seems these days, that I wanted to like a lot more than I actually did like. A lot of that is because of being based on a true story, and the woman at the center of that story simply not being very likable, a novelist who had a brief literary career that stuttered out early, which then led her to forging personal correspondence from past literary celebrities to sell for…
FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
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Week 12: Orson Welles
Ah, genius youth -- is there any greater curse? After a charmed early career in which he could literally do no wrong, first in live theater (where among other accolades he produced the first-ever all-black Shakespeare production on Broadway), and then radio (where his infamously realistic modern updating of War of the Worlds caused a national panic), the 24-year-old Welles then hit…
FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
My list | Disgustipated's master list
Week 1: Pioneers of Film - Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès and Alice Guy-Blaché
Unlike other forms of artistic output like painting, whose origins stretch all the way back to the forgotten realm of pre-history, we can put very specific dates on the beginnings of such modern artistic media as photography and filmmaking; in the former case, that's quite literally the year 1838 (the year the very…
