Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Tex began, the theater showed a preview for Disney's Fantasia, which, as the voice-over explained, has ben completely rerecorded in digital stereo. While honoring its remarkable past achievements, Disney now presents a film that deals with contemporary and identifiable subjects in a similarly engaging and warm manner. A few, however, may still argue that Dumbo's cuter than Dillon...
...eloquent symphonies of Sir Edward Elgar, for example, are works whose depth of expression rivals Brahms' more famous essays in the form. Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, the finest string-orchestra piece of the century, reaches back for inspiration to the English Renaissance, achieving a spiritual serenity rare in this age of anxiety. Gustav Hoist's The Planets is a superbly effective orchestral showpiece. And two of Benjamin Britten's major operas, Peter Grimes and Death in Venice, belong on any list of the most important modern music dramas...
...told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen by people with something more potent than popcorn coursing through their veins. But even as a trip movie it cannot be compared to such classics as 2001 and Fantasia...
...Wolf. Grim Natwick, who created Betty Boop for another studio, was the early specialist in femininity. Eric Larson's skill with cute round little animals contrasted nicely with John Lounsbery's sleek menace-Cruella in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Alex Alligator in Fantasia. That film, of course, was the great test of the studio's range and included such marvelous, unprecedented imagery as Wolfgang Reitherman's massed battling dinosaurs and the dark demonism of Vladimir Tytla's work on the Night on Bald Mountain sequence...
...that one leaves the Lost Ark with the feeling that, like the best films of childhood, it will take up permanent residence in memory. Such filmgoing experiences are, of course, what turned Lucas and Spielberg into film makers. The latter speaks particularly of the lasting impression Disney's Fantasia made on him - "life seen through different eyes...