The release of The Jungle Book on Blu-ray today has become, as when Saving Mr. Banks was unveiled a couple months ago, an unplanned forum on a most thorny issue for the Disney uber-fan: was Walt Disney a racist/sexist/anti-Semite, and if so, was he a super-racist/sexist/anti-Semite, or just your average, garden-variety racist/sexist/anti-Semite? Even though the …
101 Dalmatians Directed by Stephen Herek Written by John Hughes Starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Hugh Laurie 102 Dalmatians Directed by Kevin Lima Written by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan & Bob Tzudkier and Noni White Starring Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu, Eric Idle How lazy are we willing to allow filmmakers to be …
The Rescuers Down Under Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel Written by Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, Joe Ranft Starring Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, George C. Scott The level of faith the Walt Disney Company places in its own products never ceases to be amazing if inexplicable. Each era at this massive corporation …
Monsters, Inc. Directed by Pete Docter Written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson Starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, Steve Buscemi Here’s a question that has nagged at me for the last few years: what, really, is the difference between a film made by Pixar Animation Studios and a film made by DreamWorks Animation? …
101 Dalmatians Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman Written by Bill Peet Starring Betty Lou Gerson, Rod Taylor, Ben Wright One of the great ironies of xerography is that, while it was created to help cut costs for the animation arm of the Walt Disney Company, it was first used in a way …