At a couple points during one of the precious few special features on the Saving Mr. Banks Blu-ray, the people on screen, from the film’s director to family members of some of the men who worked with Walt Disney in the 1930s and 1940s, echo the following talking point: Walt Disney was not a nostalgic man, but one who was constantly looking forward into the future. By “talking point,” I don’t mean to infer that this statement is inaccurate, at least in terms of Disney’s public statements. The phrase “Keep moving forward” is part of one of many quotes attributed to the legendary figure, even becoming the backbone of the 2007 animated film Meet the Robinsons. So yes, Walt Disney, at least publicly, was very passionate regarding the future. But hearing this bromide in the middle of a special feature regarding a movie so wholly obsessed with building...
- 3/18/2014
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
No, friends, you haven’t slept past the weekend, and your calendars aren’t wrong. It’s time for a brand-new Mousterpiece Cinema, during the week! Aren’t you lucky? (Don’t get used to this kind of multiple-episode manna from heaven.) And even better, this is a totally different episode, with a Mousterpiece Cinema first! Mike and Josh wanted to review the Disney documentary Walt and El Grupo, but there’s one problem: it’s not accessible in any way in Canada, so Mike hasn’t seen it. As such, all he could do was interview the film’s director, Ted Thomas, son of the late Frank Thomas. But he stuck around to hear Josh’s thoughts on the film and its place in Disney’s documentary universe. Was Josh a fan? Could Mike allay his concerns? And is Ted Thomas a duck person or a mouse person? Find...
- 4/18/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
It’s been 60 years to the day since Peter Pan, the Walt Disney animated classic, opened in theaters nationwide. So what better way to commemorate the birthday of the boy who wouldn’t grow up than by checking the film out on Blu-ray for the very first time? That, at least, is the thinking behind Disney’s decision to release the Diamond Edition of Peter Pan today, hoping to remind children of all ages of this iconic animated entry. A few movie-specific issues aside, this is a fully packed home media release, a massive new Blu-ray, overstuffed with special features, even if some of them might be too familiar.
The story of how the always-young Peter Pan takes three British children to the fabled island of Neverland and their exciting adventures against the villainous pirate Captain Hook is one of the most familiar of the last 100 years. Who among us...
The story of how the always-young Peter Pan takes three British children to the fabled island of Neverland and their exciting adventures against the villainous pirate Captain Hook is one of the most familiar of the last 100 years. Who among us...
- 2/5/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
The new Blu-ray/DVD/Digital release of Walt Disney’s Peter Pan includes the bonus features from previous DVD releases plus a few additions, including Growing up with Nine Old Men, a short documentary in which Ted Thomas, the filmmaker and son of top Disney animator Frank Thomas, checks in with the children of the other artists who were nicknamed the Nine Old Men. There are no revelations or airing of dirty laundry, but if you’re a diehard Disney buff you’ll enjoy learning about the personal lives, families, and hobbies of such animation titans as Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Ward Kimball, Milt Kahl, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, and John Lounsbery. (Marc Davis and Eric Larson...
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- 2/4/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Two significant Disney-related documentaries, Walt & El Grupo, the story of Walt Disney’s sojourn to South America in 1941, and The Boys, the life story of the songwriting Sherman Brothers, are being released on DVD tomorrow, along with the story of the animation department’s fall and rise and fall, Waking Sleeping Beauty. Even if you were lucky enough to see these films in their extremely limited theatrical release, the DVDs have bonus material that makes them a must for any Disney buff. For years, Disney management has generously made the production of such documentaries possible, including Ted Thomas’ Frank and…...
- 11/29/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Walt Disney fought Nazism in South America? It. a fact. Walt Disney and a team of artists and producers spent three months in Chile, Argentina and Brazil in 1941 ostensibly to learn the Latin culture and make movies under the Us government.s Good Neighbor Policy. In reality, it was a government sponsored goodwill mission intended to sway pro-Nazi sentiment in South America to the Allies. All this is revealed in Ted Thomas. documentary Walt & El Grupo: The Untold Adventures, a painstaking and fascinating look at what happened in those three months. Thomas. father Frank, one of Disney.s core aninmators . the Nine Old Men - was on that historic trip. Monsters and Critics spoke with Thomas...
- 11/17/2010
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
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