Bambi—the iconic Disney animated film responsible for destroying childhood innocence everywhere—celebrated its 74th anniversary on Saturday. Drew Taylor of the website Oh My Disney dug into the production history of the 1942 classic. The film was the fifth feature released by Disney, and Taylor calls it the “synthesis” of the films that came before it: “[It utilizes] the formalism of Pinocchio and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, the naturalism of Dumbo, and the gentle experimentalism of Fantasia.”
Based on a 1923 book by Viennese author Felix Salten called Bambi: A Life In The Woods, the Disney animators struggled to figure out how to tell a more amorphous story without a traditional fairy tale structure. The Bambi team wound up sequestered in another building while animators worked on Fantasia, Alice In Wonderland, and Peter Pan in the main studio. And a lengthy production period gave the team time ...
Based on a 1923 book by Viennese author Felix Salten called Bambi: A Life In The Woods, the Disney animators struggled to figure out how to tell a more amorphous story without a traditional fairy tale structure. The Bambi team wound up sequestered in another building while animators worked on Fantasia, Alice In Wonderland, and Peter Pan in the main studio. And a lengthy production period gave the team time ...
- 8/15/2016
- by Caroline Siede
- avclub.com
Our Man in Tehran
Written by Drew Taylor & Robert Wright
Directed by Drew Taylor & Larry Weinstein
Canada, 2015
As the esteemed radio host Paul Harvey used to say, “And now for the rest of the story.” From Canada comes a fascinating new documentary about the daring extraction of 6 American Embassy workers from Tehran during the 1980 Iranian Hostage Crisis. While Ben Affleck’s critically-acclaimed espionage thriller, Argo, twisted the facts in pursuit of excitement, Our Man in Tehran uses these facts to capture the real-world drama. Insightful and provocative, this is one history lesson you won’t be sleeping through.
It’s not so much that Our Man in Tehran expands upon the themes and plot threads central to Argo so much as it takes a completely different perspective on them. A decidedly pro-American affair, Argo largely ignores the Canadian contribution to the operation. After all, the Canadians may have put their...
Written by Drew Taylor & Robert Wright
Directed by Drew Taylor & Larry Weinstein
Canada, 2015
As the esteemed radio host Paul Harvey used to say, “And now for the rest of the story.” From Canada comes a fascinating new documentary about the daring extraction of 6 American Embassy workers from Tehran during the 1980 Iranian Hostage Crisis. While Ben Affleck’s critically-acclaimed espionage thriller, Argo, twisted the facts in pursuit of excitement, Our Man in Tehran uses these facts to capture the real-world drama. Insightful and provocative, this is one history lesson you won’t be sleeping through.
It’s not so much that Our Man in Tehran expands upon the themes and plot threads central to Argo so much as it takes a completely different perspective on them. A decidedly pro-American affair, Argo largely ignores the Canadian contribution to the operation. After all, the Canadians may have put their...
- 5/14/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Informative but tedious talking-head doc Our Man in Tehran is for anyone who watched Argo and then wished to hear a ditzy, history-obsessed uncle ramble about the real-life political stakes of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Co-directors Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein inadvertently make well-spoken experts like former National Security Councilman Gary Sick and American Consulate officer Bob Anders look embarrassingly unfocused. They make Sick and Anders talk too much about the Carter administration's fraught attitude toward Ayatollah Khomeini and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and not enough about Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor, the title subject and the man who sheltered the six American hostages who escaped Tehran during the retroactively named "Canadian Cap...
- 5/13/2015
- Village Voice
Four Letters Apart [pictured] and Becoming an Actor among winners.
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Tdf) and its concurrent Doc Film Market has unveiled the winners for its 2014 edition.
At the Tdf, the Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a foreign feature length documentary went to Four Letters Apart by Erlend E. Mo (Denmark), while Dimitris Koutsiabasiakos’ Becoming an Actor was the recipient of the Tdf Audience Award for Greek features.
Four Letters Apart centres on three children at odds with themselves and the world around them, at a time when more and more are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd). The film, produced by Lise Lense-Møller, is sold by Danish outlet Magic Hours Films.
Becoming an Actor deals with a group of young actors, chronicling their anxieties and dreams throughout a three-year course of study. Produced by Koutsiabasiakos, the film is sold by the Greek production company KinoLab.
This is the second year in a row...
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Tdf) and its concurrent Doc Film Market has unveiled the winners for its 2014 edition.
At the Tdf, the Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a foreign feature length documentary went to Four Letters Apart by Erlend E. Mo (Denmark), while Dimitris Koutsiabasiakos’ Becoming an Actor was the recipient of the Tdf Audience Award for Greek features.
Four Letters Apart centres on three children at odds with themselves and the world around them, at a time when more and more are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd). The film, produced by Lise Lense-Møller, is sold by Danish outlet Magic Hours Films.
Becoming an Actor deals with a group of young actors, chronicling their anxieties and dreams throughout a three-year course of study. Produced by Koutsiabasiakos, the film is sold by the Greek production company KinoLab.
This is the second year in a row...
- 3/25/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
The timing couldn't have worked out better for directors Larry Weinstein and Drew Taylor. A year after "Argo" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on its way to Best Picture honours at the Oscars, their documentary "Our Man in Tehran" similarly premiered at Tiff, providing a fitting bookend with the previously under-told story of Canada's involvement in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Far from being a reaction to Ben Affleck's film, the documentary was actually begun prior to "Argo," and simply aims to tell a fuller, more historically accurate version of the dramatic events in Tehran. This meant not only giving Canada and former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor their proper due, but also many others who had their stories tweaked for the necessity of dramatic tension -- even Tony Mendez himself.
In advance of the documentary's premiere at Tiff, Moviefone Canada spoke to Weinstein and Taylor about the difference...
Far from being a reaction to Ben Affleck's film, the documentary was actually begun prior to "Argo," and simply aims to tell a fuller, more historically accurate version of the dramatic events in Tehran. This meant not only giving Canada and former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor their proper due, but also many others who had their stories tweaked for the necessity of dramatic tension -- even Tony Mendez himself.
In advance of the documentary's premiere at Tiff, Moviefone Canada spoke to Weinstein and Taylor about the difference...
- 9/20/2013
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
A little over a year ago, Ken Taylor unintentionally become the centre of controversy in absentia, when Ben Affleck's "Argo" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had many Canadians complaining that Hollywood's version of events didn't give the country or the former Canadian ambassador to Iran enough credit when it came to their involvement in rescuing six Us diplomats from Tehran.
Now, a new documentary called "Our Man in Tehran" from directors Larry Weinstein and Drew Taylor (no relation to Ken), looks to set that record straight by filling in those gaps, as well as uncovering new information that many people in Canada and around the world probably don't know -- like Taylor's heavy involvement with the CIA in attempting to rescue the remaining 52 hostages at the American embassy as well.
Still, Taylor remains, for lack of a better word, diplomatic when discussing what "Argo" missed, and...
Now, a new documentary called "Our Man in Tehran" from directors Larry Weinstein and Drew Taylor (no relation to Ken), looks to set that record straight by filling in those gaps, as well as uncovering new information that many people in Canada and around the world probably don't know -- like Taylor's heavy involvement with the CIA in attempting to rescue the remaining 52 hostages at the American embassy as well.
Still, Taylor remains, for lack of a better word, diplomatic when discussing what "Argo" missed, and...
- 9/19/2013
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
A year after Ben Affleck’s “Argo” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in a triumphant early stop on a road that would lead it to the stage of the Academy Awards, Tiff has taken the opportunity to point out that Affleck didn’t really get the story right. Drew Taylor’s and Larry Weinstein’s film “Our Man in Tehran,” which premiered on Thursday followed by a conversation with the former Canadian ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, and former prime minister Joe Clark, never actually mentions “Argo” or Affleck by name. But as a documentary about the Canadian-assisted rescue mission that smuggled six.
- 9/12/2013
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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