http://inkandpixelclub.com/2010/07/why-i-love-animation-my-favorite-moviegoing-experience/ where it's all about animation Tue, 01 May 2012 19:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://inkandpixelclub.com/2010/07/why-i-love-animation-my-favorite-moviegoing-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Book Review – Tale As Old As Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:46:24 +0000 http://inkandpixelclub.com/?p=532#comment-1407 [...] I’ve mentioned before that Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie. So of course I was excited to learn that a new “making of” book would be coming out to coincide with the film’s first Blu-Ray release. Beauty premiered too early in Disney’s resurgence in animated features to receive a large, hardcover “Art of” book. I do own the edition of Bob Thomas’ Disney’s Art of Animation in which the latter half of the book covers the making of Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s latest film at the time. But neither that nor the bits of information about the movie I gleaned from other sources were enough. I always wanted more. Animation historian Charles Solomon is no stranger to my reference library, having written books such as The Disney That Never Was and my favorite general reference on Western animation, Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, so I knew I would be in good hands with him guiding me through the history of Beauty and the Beast. And the book became available a few weeks before my birthday. Perfect! [...] [...] I’ve mentioned before that Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie. So of course I was excited to learn that a new “making of” book would be coming out to coincide with the film’s first Blu-Ray release. Beauty premiered too early in Disney’s resurgence in animated features to receive a large, hardcover “Art of” book. I do own the edition of Bob Thomas’ Disney’s Art of Animation in which the latter half of the book covers the making of Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s latest film at the time. But neither that nor the bits of information about the movie I gleaned from other sources were enough. I always wanted more. Animation historian Charles Solomon is no stranger to my reference library, having written books such as The Disney That Never Was and my favorite general reference on Western animation, Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, so I knew I would be in good hands with him guiding me through the history of Beauty and the Beast. And the book became available a few weeks before my birthday. Perfect! [...]

]]> http://inkandpixelclub.com/2010/07/why-i-love-animation-my-favorite-moviegoing-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Ian Perez Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:48 +0000 http://inkandpixelclub.com/?p=532#comment-675 My favorite moviegoing experience is actually quite recent, and it was whem my brother and I (and maybe my father--I'm not too sure on that point) went to see "Speed Racer". From the moment it began, I could Not. Stop. Smiling. From the "Hot Wheel" tracks to the Dick-Tracy like mobsters, to a detective called Inspector Detector, the movie is just so much fun. It's also the kind of movie that requires watching in a theater, since all the color and details would too easily get lost on a smaller screen. The movie was critically panned almost everywhere--although, notably, Time Magazine's film critic liked it a lot and included it his top ten movies of the year--but I can't help but love it--even if I'll probably never watch it again. My favorite moviegoing experience is actually quite recent, and it was whem my brother and I (and maybe my father–I’m not too sure on that point) went to see “Speed Racer”. From the moment it began, I could Not. Stop. Smiling. From the “Hot Wheel” tracks to the Dick-Tracy like mobsters, to a detective called Inspector Detector, the movie is just so much fun. It’s also the kind of movie that requires watching in a theater, since all the color and details would too easily get lost on a smaller screen. The movie was critically panned almost everywhere–although, notably, Time Magazine’s film critic liked it a lot and included it his top ten movies of the year–but I can’t help but love it–even if I’ll probably never watch it again.

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