[School of Movies 2022]
A trio of films that are considered by many to be the crowning glories of Don Bluth's oeuvre. He was one of the only serious competitors to Disney in the last two decades of the 20th Century that they had dominated, in terms of what constituted animated cinema in the west.
We take a documentarian approach to how he started, and cover the flourishing of the next few years, breaking off at their high point, actually beating Disney at the box office. After this it was a slow decline of valiant attempts and disappointing failures, making films that evoked the elegant, classical stylings of Cinderella, Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty when the public wanted Toy Story, and Disney were experiencing their 90s Renaissance.
This one gets dark and hard, even more so than you might imagine, if you're familiar with the sometimes disturbing nature of this body of work. But it's utterly fascinating if you can push through that.
Guest:
Kat Essman @Kat325
Guest Lecturers Matt Reeves & Rupert Wyatt on Directing the Apes
Guest Lecturer: George Lucas on Star Wars
Guest Lecturer Ben Burtt: The Sound of Star Wars
One Piece [Netflix Season 1]
Justice League Unlimited
Justice League: The Animated Series
Guest Lecturer: Guillermo del Toro
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 2)
The Mask of Zorro
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 1)
Rise of Skywalker Revisited
X-Men: Evolution
X-Men '92
Star Trek: Discovery
Strange Days
Prey (2022)
Undertale
Gravity Falls (Show 6: Episodes 37-40)
Gravity Falls (Show 4: Episodes 21-36)
Wakanda Forever
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