Bears Written by Alastair Fothergill and Adam Chapman Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey UK and USA, 2013 During its fledgling years as a film studio, the Walt Disney Company helped revolutionize the nature documentary with its True-Life Adventure series. Here, as never before, audiences could thrill to the story of seals, beavers, bears, …
Grunt grunt grunt! Grunt–*cough, cough*–excuse me, I had a piece of hacky old shtick in my throat. Now, where was I? Ah yes, it’s time for a new Mousterpiece Cinema! This week, Josh and Michael go to the jungles of Africa with the new DisneyNature documentary Chimpanzee, which is replete with beautiful imagery, a compelling …
Chimpanzee Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield Written by Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, and Don Hahn Narrated by Tim Allen If you’ve been listening to Mousterpiece Cinema long enough, you probably know that I’m a cat person. I’ve mentioned, offhandedly, on the show how the Disney animated canon manages to often make cats into …