This is Halloween! (From Nightmare Before Christmas)
Posted on October 31, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Tim Burton + Danny Elfman + Halloween — a perfect combination.
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Happy Halloween! Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Disney)
Posted on October 31, 2016 at 10:00 am
From one of my favorite Disney special features, Ichabod and Mr. Toad, this is based on the classic “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. Nervous schoolmaster meets headless horseman!
Happy Halloween! Grim Grinning Ghosts
Posted on October 31, 2016 at 7:00 am
VoicePlay performs the song from Disneyland/Disney World’s Haunted House!
Favorite Movie Witches
Posted on October 27, 2016 at 3:48 pm
For Halloween, some of my favorite movie witches:
Kim Novak is a sexy witch who will lose her powers if she falls in love in “Bell Book and Candle.” The outstanding cast includes Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Elsa Lanchester.
Angelica Huston is a very scary witch who can turn humans into mice in Roald Dahl’s “The Witches.”
Meryl Streep was a singing witch in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.”
Animated Disney witches include Ursula the Sea Witch in “The Little Mermaid,” Julie Walters in “Brave,” and Martha Wentworth as Madame Mim in “The Sword in the Stone.”
Bette Milder, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy are Colonial era witches who appear in modern times in the family favorite “Hocus Pocus.”
Veronica Lake is a witch who marries the descendent of the family she cursed in “I Married a Witch.”
Michael Cavna on “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
Posted on October 19, 2016 at 10:56 am
Michael Cavna, who covers comics, graphic novels, and animation for the Washington Post writes about Peanuts’ classic Halloween special, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” The family favorite celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Their swift narrative certainty for “Great Pumpkin” freed Melendez (who also voiced Snoopy) and his crew — including gifted animator Bill Littlejohn — to create stunning watercolor skies and rich autumn hues that provide every scene with its own mood, apart from the characters. Melendez brilliantly painted both motion and emotion.
“It is by far the most colorful of the shows,” Mendelson says, “as Bill and his team captured the vibrancy of the fall season.”
And the camera, often so static in “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” zooms in for facial close-ups in the follow-up that provide the viewer with a poignant intimacy.