#criterion find!

[dearly]

GIRLFRIENDS (1978) dir. Claudia Weill

#girlfriends 1978 #criterion find! #claudia weill #Melanie Mayron #film #1970s #Anita Skinner

[gael-garcia]

#favorite !! cinema indeed #i just find the lack of views so rude esp compared to ... #cheryl dunye #picks so good and on brand #criterion closet #post #Youtube

[mummer]

and he wept, for there were no more matt damon movies to conquer

#holy shit 😭 #i may be missing a few where he's only in like one scene ie unsane/mystic pizza/finding forrester #but i feel like i can call it there right. That's 51 movies #gonna rewatch a couple of classics too so dont worry. #one thing about me is i love having a project. #the good news is i can finally go back to watching real/good movies. lemme restart my criterion sub....

[pikslasrce]

RANDOM RUSSIAN MOVIE WEBSITE SAVEME

#youd think that a movie by a guy from your own country would be easy to find on youtube at least #also wait this is in the criterion collection???? waohh.. we have a guy of ours in the criterion collection.. slay #piksla.txt

[alter-koker]

people make fun of letterboxd (i guess bc some ppl think it's uncool when others make quippy reviews for clout?? u dont have to do that though) but it literally has changed how i watched movies, in a good way. before getting it i had only seen around 375 movies, 5 years later ive seen 1233!

#i hate the way lists work in there like trying to find lists that include a certain movie and getting all those #every movie ever made lists clogging everything up #but being able to catelog has been so helpful #and it's not a motivator in that 'im making number go up' but it makes u aware of a lot of different movies u wouldnt have #it's a tool that when utilized correctly improves ur movie experience tremendously #the second thing that had improved my movie experience is criterion lol

[mister13eyond]

that 'caring for your cermet' video but it's just me making fake instructions for how to care for my ocs

mostly warnings

#'if you dont give vin enrichment he WILL make his own and it WILL NOT be fun for you' #'nik and ike should NOT be separated they CAN and WILL destroy any obstacles between their enclosures and no solid steel will not stop them #'zinnia can ONLY share an enclosure with damian and if you put him with anyone else he'll start gaslighting them and/or stealing food' #'calcine MUST HAVE access to either a criterion collection or several seasons of MST3K on blu-ray. do not think you can just give them a bo #-set of columbo and be done with it. they require a CONSTANT diet of cinema.' #'asphodel is largely docile as long as they have research material but this should NOT be primarily digital. don't leave them with any tech #-that you value or you WILL come back to find your hard drive wiped in new and unusual ways' #my ocs #last rb is just making me laugh really hard #bc if someone tried to take away vin i really would be like #'he's your problem now'

[dreamofmourning]

#some criterion of excellence by which he was chosen #i'm reflecting on the desire to find absolute singularity explanatory here and how it just always absolutely fails #we ARE left wondering why lazarus #Anne Carson #inhabiting a realm of fabulous constructions #you don't know my attributes #tall saint

[lilacsolanum]

When will AO3 give us "rate from highest kudos hits ratio"

#that would fuck so hard #be a really good way to find fics using the 'rank by' setting that weren't written at the dawn of fandom #some of my fics have gotten 100 kuds around 500 hits #call that Criterion collection

[linh-song]

do you guys remember that one old theory I had like two years ago with the humans and the criterion and basically the neverseen were gonna select a few “worthy” humans to be given abilities and turned into elves, because elves and humans are actually like basically the same but something happened a long time ago to make the species divergent.

im just gonna say that stellarlune has done nothing to persuade me against this theory. like human sanctuaries? elysian having to do with powers and abilities… hmm…

#no fr I can’t find the post but I was on to something #there’s a reason why fintan had the criterion and keefe and trigger abilities and vespera was experimenting on humans and #trying ti find a way to make elves have the capacity for violence like humans #and the council burying all these forgotten secrets #hmmm??? #idk man #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #stellarlune spoilers #kotlc theories #neverseen

[squideo]

Squideo’s Favourites: WALL·E 🌱

Released in 2008 as Pixar Animation Studio’s ninth feature film, its third since the company was purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 2006, WALL·E had been in the works since the nineties. Created by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter, this fast classic has become one of Pixar’s standout films. So much so that Disney pushed for an Academy Award Best Picture nomination.

Controversially, this wasn’t accepted by the judges but WALL·E did go on to win their Best Animated Feature prize, and also scooped it up at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Hugo Awards, People’s Choice Awards, Saturn Awards, and many more. It even scored two Grammys for Randy Newman and Peter Gabriel’s music performances.

We’re diving into the production behind this animated film, exploring the style and techniques which came together to create this compelling story.

Creating a Story

When Andrew Stanton first came up with the idea for WALL·E, the premise was simple: “what if mankind left Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?” This was first pitched in 1994 when the young company was thinking about its future films, yet WALL·E wouldn’t start production until 2003 – eventually making it onto screens in 2008.

Stanton continued to develop the idea of a Robinson Crusoe robot with Pete Docter in the nineties, even as both went on to direct other Pixar projects – Finding Nemo (2003) and Monsters, Inc (2001) respectively. There was doubt, however, that this film could be pulled off. Pixar had created anthropomorphised robots before in its first animated short Luxo Jr. (1986). The lamp depicted in this short would become Pixar’s mascot, but was a feature film about a robot something that could be compellingly animated?

What helped to move WALL·E into production was the release of the massively successful Finding Nemo. Like robots, fish weren’t expressive. Like outer space, water was difficult to animate. And yet they pulled it off, releasing what became the highest-grossing animated feature film of all time up to that point and Pixar’s first Academy Award winner. Directed by Stanton, he now had the attention of the company who were eager to hear his next idea.

“WALL-E was a very conscious dive into risk. I knew nobody really wanted to make it. But I also knew nobody could say no to me because Nemo was just so big… we’d been so successful at that point that we could afford the hiccup. If we called it wrong economically or critically, we’d survive it.” Andrew Stanton

The film centred on two robots who only spoke when communicating their names and directives. The majority of WALL·E’s first half is largely free of dialogue, with the exception of live-action recordings from Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Buy n Large’s owner. Many robot characters only converse with chirps and beeps, and the only robot with full lines of dialogue is 2001: A Space Odyssey-inspired villain Auto.

Key to getting WALL·E into production was the approval of Steve Jobs, who was Pixar’s primary investor and acted as their co-founder and chairman. Jobs split his time at Pixar with Apple where, in 2004, an exciting new product was announced to a select number of people: the development of the first iPhone. The developments at Apple ended up having a profound impact on WALL·E, with the team at Pixar receiving prototype phones before the general public. The film was punctuated throughout with Apple references, using the sound of the Mac boot-up chime when WALL·E finishes charging, and the iPod and iPhone inspiring EVE’s design.

The story is built on themes of environmentalism and global catastrophe, examining consumerism and complacency. One of Pixar and Disney’s most politically themed films, WALL·E attracted conservative criticism but that didn’t stop it from performing at the box office: grossing $532 million worldwide. Receiving widespread acclaim, WALL·E became the second Pixar feature film to be preserved by the National Film Registry and Library of Congress in 2021. In 2022, WALL·E also became Pixar’s first film selected by The Criterion Collection.

Animation Style

While other Pixar films typically generated between 50 and 75,000 storyboards for each production, WALL·E ended up with over 125,000 drawings and 96,000 storyboards. A lot of thought had to go into the character’s design, since their emotions would have to be conveyed physically rather than verbally.

“Robots are a huge challenge, because robots are function-based machines. When you’re drawing them, you can only make up so much stuff that doesn’t actually function, or the person looking at them, even if they’re not engineers themselves, they’re going to notice that that joint wouldn’t actually work. So it became important to look at actual robots. You can only make so much up out of your head.” Jason Dreamer

The team looked at a variety of robots, including those made for bomb disposal. For Jim Reardon, head of story for WALL•E, it was important that they didn’t “draw human-looking robots with arms, legs, heads and eyes, and have them talk. We wanted to take objects that you normally wouldn’t associate with having humanlike characteristics and see what we could get out of them through design and animation.”

To help, Stanton arranged film screenings of classic silent films from the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to show how silent film actors told stories without reliance on dialogue.

To create the wasteland that WALL·E is left behind in, the animators looked at everything from local dumps to the abandoned city of Chernobyl. For the modern ship Axiom, they looked to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland and cruise ships. To design the human characters, they consulted with physiologist James Hicks to find out the effects of atrophy and prolonged weightlessness while living in space, proving that no detail was too small for the team behind WALL·E.

All of these considerations created a future that seems tangible, and helps to drive the importance of the film’s themes. WALL·E ends on an optimistic note, with Jim Capobianco’s end credits which show the evolution of humanity through different schools of art. For audiences facing the realities of climate change and environmental destruction, this confidence in the power of humanity to fix our world is the right ending. Perhaps explaining why it is one of the few Pixar films to receive no sequel or animated shorts. The story is perfect as it is.

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#wall e #pixar animation studios #disney pixar #pixar #andrew stanton #pete docter #randy newman #peter gabriel #luxo jr #finding nemo #steve jobs #apple #iphone #ipod #criterion collection #jim reardon #jason dreamer #jim capobianco #Youtube

[devilfruitdyke]

suits with skirts are the saddest article of clothing im sorry. you will be a pretty boy for the 14 hours of this high school debate tournament

#oh fuck i didnt ever talk about the second day of debate #i was there ig #1 w 1 l did not break and got to go home 🧘‍♀️ #the win was a guy who proposed the green new deal and i have fox news parents so i was like and how much will that cost 🤨🤨 #decently trustworthy source said it would cost the average household 74000 dollars #so either they put the plan in slowly and my impact is more urgent or they put it in fast and everyone goes into debt #i dont really believe that but idc #cross examination fr operates on fae rules #dont give them yr name do not tell them 'yes' theyll say you agreed with them #ALSO HI if i have lincolndouglasheads in the audience find the philosopher who came up with yr values and quote them #its THAT fucking easy and yr opponent can get yr ass if you dont #i was like 'and i would like to say the affirmative case agrees on my value and criterion' because we had the same one #'but he has yet failed to state the specific school of utilitarianism or give a definition' #bc the judge said he fw philosophy #its probably.gonna be classical whateverthefuck invented by a dude named john

[pleuvoire]

i think every story and artform and Media has something worth analyzing and thinking about and looking at and enjoying, yes even the dumb popcorn romcoms, yes even the shows for toddlers that teach them how to count to ten, yes even fanfiction, and trying to draw a line between which forms are worthwhile and which ones merit a condescending “oh well i suppose you’re allowed to enjoy it but do be aware it’s basically like junk food, empty calories” is a fundamentally fruitless endeavor and also reveals the speaker as a joyless pedant who doesn’t love art and stories nearly as much as they think they do

#to be clear i'm Not saying all art and stories is good and worthwhile. there is a lot of shallow junk out there #but there is no criterion you can put up to say ''THIS stuff is good and worthwhile and THIS stuff is shallow junk'' #and if you want to decide that a story is shallow junk you have to look at it on its own terms and evaluate what it tries and fails to do #and even then someone else might still find meaning in it and they're not necessarily wrong

[videostak]

ordered a brazilian dvd of playtime.. why... because i so crazy..

#mainly wanan see if its a different remaster than the criterion one and like since its one of my fav movies i wanna have lots of it lol #and like its region 0 ntsc so itll work on my dvd player and also a movie u dont need to rely on language to watch so if the eng subs are ba #bad it wont matter cause u can watch it unsubbed and like have a grasp on everything #trullly one of the greatest films ever #rly wanna find a trafic dvd thats nice looking and ntsc region 0 or 1 or smthn #the criteerion one is nice and def like u kno glad it exists but i would like to find a more niche random release if i can #but probably unlikely given that its one of his least popular films

[thebrideofreanimator]

I FOUND SEASON 2 PF THE MUNSTERS AT THE DVD STORE

#IVE BEEN WANTJNG TO WATCH THIS SHOW FOREVER I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE #i haven’t seen a single episode but. we’re just gonna jump into season 2 what’s the worst that could happen #it has the movies (old movies not rz) on there too yayy #i also found a depeche mode cd hit the slay button #no rope 1948 sadly though #i found a targets criterion i thought very hard about getting….

[ragtimedrakes]

shishioji is apparently 20mil gil which is almost within my buying reach so really I don't even need to run rokkon

#you have no idea how bad I want this thing but I can't be assed to actually do the dungeon.... #I need to prog zeromus... #no Idon't actually. I have my static for that #BUT STILL I don't want to pug criterion but at the same time I don't rly feel like finding a group for it #u can imagine the issues I am having #I'm going back to drawing lawyers. goodbye #might run maps later... who knows

[go-go-devil]

Labyrinth, Metropolis (1927), On the Waterfront?

Labyrinth

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

Love this film! I certainly enjoyed it the first time I saw it as a teen, but I would say it's one of those films that gets better for me the more I watch it

Jim Henson & Crew's puppetry is incredible as always, in fact I've probably seen the making-of documentary for Labyrinth just as many time's as the seen the film itself, and soundtrack is also great (particularly Bowie's songs, those are the ones I listen to outside of the ost)

I also really like the story's theme of how believing in fantasy too much can be detrimental to one's maturity, yet also how it is important for one not to sacrifice their imagination on the journey to adulthood. It's much more nuanced look at how the concept of fantasies transitions between childhood and adulthood, and it's a shame I don't see too many family films have maintain this philosophy

Metropolis (1927)

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

One of my favorite silent films! I'm such a sucker for German Expressionism and early sci-fi concepts, so naturally this one's a fit for me.

Besides all the cool set-designs and practical effects I can watch this film anytime solely for the performances the actors give. The best thing about silent films is that due to the lack of sound, the actors of that era generally made their performances work through over-the-top body gestures, and by god do those actors deliver on that front :D

One thing that I don't like about the film that I don't see brought up very often though is how the intense class divide doesn't actually get solved by the end of the film. Freder becomes the mediator between the two, "the heart" that connects "the head and the hands" if you will, but by the end the working class seem to be content in the underground to maintain the metropolis. Getting better working conditions is a plus for sure, but the film in my opinion doesn't really consider that perhaps a society that must be maintained through an underground labor class. I guess even the greatest films can't be perfect, unfortunately...

On the Waterfront

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

Forgive me, but I actually completely forgot this film existed until you brought it up here lol

Now that my memory's jogged I can tell just by looking at it that it's a highlight of classic cinema. Any film about unions is worth a watch from me! The only way I would've seen footage of it is if it got mentioned in this massive History of Cinema documentary I watched many years ago (and all of my memories of that doc series have become hazy and incomplete), so when I do get to see this one I'll be going in completely blind

#asks #films #thanks for the asks! #my list of 'films I need to see right now' is very long at the moment #but I'll see if I can find On the Waterfront on the criterion channel