Heffalumps and Woozles take centre stage for Episode 60 of the podcast, as Chris and Alex take a trip deep into Hundred Acre Wood to confront Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) (not to be confused with the earlier A.A. Milne biography Goodbye Christopher Robin [Simon Curtis, 2017]), and its pleasures of nostalgia. For this latest Listeners’ Choice, they discuss the role of illustration and illusionism in relation to Disney’s earlier Winnie the Pooh animated adaptations; how imagination and impossibility manages the film’s treatment of childhood fantasies, and the extent to which this is mirrored in elements of Christopher Robin’s digital/analogue production; the politics of niceness and the film’s gestures to a Trump-era “nicecore” cinema that delights in kindness and the intrinsic value of ‘being good’; the construction of a malleable, fluid virtual urban space to form bricolage architecture (particularly in its CG portrayal of postwar London); what Christopher Robin has to say about coming back to family, returning home, and simply seeing the world differently; and how doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something.
Rango (2011) (with Neil Brand)
Bright (David Ayer, 2017)
Hugo (2011) (with Eric Smoodin)
Watchmen (2009) (with Drew Morton)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (with Deborah Shaw)
Persepolis (2007)
Beetlejuice (1988) (with Jingan Young)
Princess Mononoke (1997) (with Rayna Denison)
(Bonus) Q&A with Graham Humphreys (Live from Portsmouth Bookfest)
Waterworld (1995) (with Simon Brew)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Aladdin (2019) (with Myles Robey)
Hercules (1997) (with Edith Hall)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (with Astrid Goldsmith)
Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Wizards (1977) (Live @ Cinema Museum)
Brazil (1985) (with Hope Dickson Leach)
BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) (with Frances Pheasant-Kelly)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) (with Caroline Ruddell - Live @ Cinema Museum)
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