The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. If Alice is here for a reason, it’s sheer trippiness. Sure, it’s not Jodorowsky, but it’s pretty good for a Disney movie produced in the same year as A Place in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. The film knows… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 20-16
Dir. Bill Condon. Starring Emma Watson, Ewan McGregor, Dan Stevens Since the movie has opened recently, an obligatory “spoilers.” Also, a shameless plug: I’ve written about the 1991 animated version with a special emphasis on that film’s symbolic use of color. You can find that here. The Beast (Stevens) reaches down and picks up an… Read More Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Honorable mentions: “Seize the Day,” “The World Will Know” Newsies is an utterly conventional musical. It’s so conventional that it changed the sex of one of the roles; the newspaper reporter, played by Bill Pullman in the film, is played by Kara Lindsay in the stage show so the show can have a song about unlikely… Read More Songs from Musicals: #40, “Santa Fe,” from Newsies
Seeing Things Secondhand 