Soul Review: Pete Docter Has the Prescription For the 2020 Blues
Pixar’s latest movie is an exuberant celebration of life in the face of death.
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Pete Docter and Jennifer Lee to Head Pixar and Disney Animation
The directors of ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Frozen’ will replace John Lasseter as the chief creative officers of the two most powerful studios in animation.
‘Inside Out’ Earns Pixar Its Eighth Best Animated Feature Oscar
Take a seat, Sadness. It’s Joy’s night. That’s because Inside Out triumphed in a very competitive category (that also included Shaun the Sheep Movie and the truly outstanding Anomalisa) to take home the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Oscars. It…
Why Can’t an Animated Film Be Nominated For Best Director at the Oscars?
There’s a director who has been nominated for six Oscars. He even won once. His 2015 film was a critical and commercial success. It made over $350 million and has a 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
There’s another director who has been nominated for three Oscars...
There’s another director who has been nominated for three Oscars...
Meet the ‘Inside Out’ Emotions That Were Cut From the Film
Before Joy, Fear, Sadness, Anger and Disgust made the cut, 21 other emotions were considered for Pixar’s Inside Out. In a new special feature from the upcoming DVD for the animated film, courtesy of USA Today, director Pete Docter reveals the various emotions that were initially considered fo…
How a Defunct Disney World Attraction Inspired Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
Inside Out isn’t the first Disney project to tackle this concept and director Pete Docter himself knows this. Several decades ago, the Inside Out director worked on the defunct Walt Disney World attraction Cranium Command, which tackles a very similar concept with very different results. Hous…
‘Inside Out’ Review: A New Pixar Masterpiece
It’s been at least five years since the last great Pixar film (or more, depending on your feelings about Toy Story 3). In the interim, they produced a series of sequels — some quite entertaining, but few as transcendently beautiful as the original concepts that turned the studio into t…
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Will Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
I had the great fortune to see Pixar’s Up for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival, when it premiered there in 2009. Cannes is basically the best place on Earth to see a movie; the main theater at the festival has perfect projection and sound and the film’s 3D was so good my palm…
'Inside Out' Images and Concept Art Bring Emotions to Life
Disney and Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, takes the concept of our wildly varying and vacillating emotions and brings them to brilliant life. Exploring the different feelings in our head and how each of them plays an integral role in our daily life, Inside Out promises to be a vivid adventu…