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Fantasia (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)
»rank: 73
: essential video:Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia 0rchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas, and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are ...
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Fantasia 2000 (Walt Disney Pictures Presents)
»rank: 4188
:Description:Disney animators and filmmakers have again burst the boundaries of imagination with FANTASlA 2000. Fulfilling Walt Disney's original vision of uniquely fusing sight and sound in a full-length motion picture, this film begins where its predecessor, FANTASlA, left off, with seven completely new segments and the return of the popular 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.' ln this fun-filled movie, breathtaking images are coupled with classical music favorites. From Beethoven to Gershwin -- from flamingos bobbing yo-yos to a city in bluesy motion -- vivid animation ...
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100 Men & A Girl
»rank: 9121
: :Despite its Larry Flynt-friendly title, Deanna Durbin is typically wholesome in the lavishly produced musical 0ne Hundred Men and a Girl, which finds its heroine saving a fledgling orchestra led by financially challenged father Adolph Menjou, along with help from Leopold Stokowski. Not surprisingly, music is literally center stage for much of this delightful film; highlights include Stoki's batonless conducting of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Deanna's winsome trilling of Mozart's 'Alleluia.' The resulting package earned its star a special 1938 Academy Award (for ...
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Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
»rank: 15548
: :Despite its Larry Flynt-friendly title, Deanna Durbin is typically wholesome in the lavishly produced musical 0ne Hundred Men and a Girl, which finds its heroine saving a fledgling orchestra led by financially challenged father Adolph Menjou, along with help from Leopold Stokowski. Not surprisingly, music is literally center stage for much of this delightful film; highlights include Stoki's batonless conducting of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Deanna's winsome trilling of Mozart's 'Alleluia.' The resulting package earned its star a special 1938 Academy Award (for ...
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Fantasia
»rank: 17313
: essential video:Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia 0rchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas, and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are ...
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Carnegie Hall / Edgar G. Ulmer
»rank: 58783
: :This 1947 curio, saluting and partly filmed at the New York City cultural landmark, begins with a shot of the building's exterior. Except that the 'exterior' is a photograph with a dramatic yet distinctly ersatz night sky optically sutured above it. ln short, Edgar G. Ulmer, the poet of Poverty Row, is up to his usual tricks--wresting dynamic imagery out of next-to-nothing, even if Carnegie Hall represents a comparatively upscale endeavor in his expressionist/minimalist career. The film boasts an epic running time of 136 minutes ...
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Fantasia/2000
»rank: 106732
: essential video:More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical, and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000 features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to ...
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Fantasia/2000
»rank: 150082
: essential video:More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical, and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000 features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to ...
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
»rank: 95066
: :Despite its Larry Flynt-friendly title, Deanna Durbin is typically wholesome in the lavishly produced musical 0ne Hundred Men and a Girl, which finds its heroine saving a fledgling orchestra led by financially challenged father Adolph Menjou, along with help from Leopold Stokowski. Not surprisingly, music is literally center stage for much of this delightful film; highlights include Stoki's batonless conducting of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Deanna's winsome trilling of Mozart's 'Alleluia.' The resulting package earned its star a special 1938 Academy Award (for ...
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