Tag: Finding Nemo
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10 Worst Movies of 2003, Ranked
2003 was a good year to be a cinephile, demonstrated alone by the fact that the year’s biggest and best release was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. That third part of an iconic trilogy was a huge critical and box office success, and also happened to win 11 Oscars, including…
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Why ‘Mother, Couch’ Director Niclas Larsson Rewatched ‘Freaky Friday’ and ‘13 Going on 30’ Before Filming His TIFF Debut Feature
Furniture stores are strange places. The liminal feeling they give off is something like a life-size dollhouse or home you once lived in but can’t remember when. If you’ve ever been into an Ikea, chances are you thought about what it’d be like to spend the night in one of the staged rooms that has…
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This Is the Most Terrifying Moment in a Pixar Movie
In its almost 30-year history of creating high-class animated features, Pixar has practically built its entire studio identity on telling enthralling stories from unexpected points of view. Their films have been able to create engaging pathos and thoughtful world building by telling stories of how the perspectives of toys, fish, and even abstract emotions are…
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The Men Behind ‘Jaws’ Regret Scaring You
There is a fascination with sharks, especially the great white with its mighty jaws, coal-like eyes, and how far up it can launch itself when breaching the water. The apex predators aren’t losing the spotlight any time soon, the public interest remains too strong. There’s Bruce in Finding Nemo with his fragile diet. The Meg…
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Every Movie Directed by Albert Brooks, Ranked
Albert Brooks is best known for being a comedian and an actor, with perhaps his best-known role, at least for younger people – and for better or worse – being that of voicing Marlin in Finding Nemo. But even when it comes to acting, it’s not fair to entirely pin him down to the comedy…
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Composer Thomas Newman on Why the Opening Montage of ‘Elemental’ Was the Hardest Section to Score
When composer Thomas Newman was having early conversations about the music of Pixar’s “Elemental,” he looked for a connecting thread between the film’s imaginary world, where elements are characters, and the human world. “I looked for similar issues of otherness and how that could be reflected in music, and how we would identify with that…
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‘From Justin to Kelly’ Is Still a Baffling, Dismal Musical Aimed at Nobody
The year 2023 is the momentous 20th anniversary of many classic films. This includes beloved mainstream family films like School of Rock and Finding Nemo, as well as lastingly influential arthouse fare like The Man Without a Past and The Triplets of Belleville. 2003 was not a year of flawless cinema, but there were certainly…
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Spellbound: Everything We Know So Far
With the release of Luck, Skydance Studios entered the realm of animation for the first time. This was also the first film produced for Skydance Animations by John Lasseter, a former head at Disney/Pixar Animations. Lasseter was appointed to lead Skydance Animation in 2019, and together with Paramount Animation and Ilion Animation Studios, the company…
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Ralph Eggleston, Pixar Animator Behind ‘For the Birds’ and ‘Toy Story,’ Dies at 56
Ralph Eggleston, an Academy Award-winning animator, art director and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old.Eggleston won the animated short film Oscar for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film “For the Birds.”Pixar tweeted a tribute to him, saying, “Pixar and…
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Andrew Stanton Had To Fight For Buzz To Go Into Spanish Mode In Toy Story 3 [Comic-Con]
The “Toy Story” franchise is known for its Randy Newman theme song, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” but apparently, the Spanish Buzz Lightyear who appears in “Toy Story 3” did not have a friend in everyone as the movie was being made. Lucky for him, he had Andrew Stanton in his corner.As a director,…