I started this meta-analysis hoping to have somewhere between fifteen and twenty lists to go on. In the end I found forty, because the results kept shifting when I’d enter new data. For the Tarantino analysis, for example, adding more lists would basically just solidify where every movie landed. Here, though, there are multiple pairs… Read More Pixar Meta-Analysis
Tim: This is the story of something that began nine months ago, something that Matt and I conceived, you might say, and now we’re adding a third person to make our duo a trio. I am very proud of this introductory statement, and a little horrified that we’re getting back to the Disney… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #16: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 2 (The One Where We Grill Josh About Frozen II)
Tim: Hi, Matt, and welcome back to the closest I think we’ve come to an actual podcast in a long time. We almost fired up Audacity for this. Matt: Maybe there will still be one of those, who knows. We’re back with something that “demands” a lot of space so……stay tuned for our 10-part series… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #14: Disney/Pixar Rankings Roundup, Part 1 (The One Where We Pump Up A Bug’s Life)
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. The first Trousdale and Wise movie to hit the list—their other efforts are The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast, so you may need to wait a sec to see them here again—is most of the way to… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 40-36
Another week, another conversation. The latest conversation in our series considers what it means for a band or a director, specifically, to age. How do we reevaluate them? What do we look for? Do they fade away entirely? What is their (gulp) legacy? What follows is a lightly edited conversation in lieu of a podcast.… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations, #5: How Media Changes As It Ages
Seeing Things Secondhand 