Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Essential Films Podcast - Episode #034: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)




EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Magic Mirror, on the wall, what is the greatest movie podcast of them all?... On today’s adventure, Adolfo and Mark sit down to discuss SNOW WHITE AND THE DWARFS (137)



On this week’s show:

The voice casting process
The differences between the film and the Brothers Grimm story
Deafy, Jumpy, Baldy, Tubby, Hickey, Dizzy and Burpy?
Rotoscoping
The multiplane camera
The storybook opening trope
Misquoted movie lines
Prince Charming is not woke
The Queen's awesome transformation
Snow White is a dummy
The Prince has a weird fetish for dead ladies
The live action remake in the works
Alternate theories on the ending
Disney World adventures



FILMS REFERENCED:

NOSFERATU (1922)
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (1931)
THE OLD MILL (1932)
ROMEO & JULIET (1936)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
FANTASIA (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
DUMBO (1941)
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946)
CINDERELLA (1950)
THE HOBBIT (1977)
THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
ALADDIN (1992)
THE LION KING (1994)
ANASTASIA (1997)
RATATOUILLE (2007)
500 DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)
AVATAR (2009)
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (2012)
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2014)
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (2018)



LINKS:

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

The Essential Films Podcast - Episode #033: Bonus Features - THE GOONIES ARE GOOD ENOUGH!



Join Adolfo and Mark on this bonus episode as they discuss Mark’s Alamo Adventures, CREEPSHOW (1982), MIDSOMMAR (2019), VERTIGO (1958), READY OR NOT (2019), THE GOONIES (1985), Cyndi Lauper, APOCALYPSE NOW: THE FINAL CUT, HOT SHOTS PART DEUX (1993), THE GODFATHER: THE COMPLETE EPIC, THE GODFATHER PART III (1990) and The GODZILLA Criterion Collection Set