An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.
Directors: 8 credits
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120910/
8 songs in the Soundtracks, 6 Performed by James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
This gets a 7 for just one segment, otherwise this would be a 6, as was Fantasia (1940), 6. The superb segment: Rhapsody in Blue, with the animation in the style of Al Hirschfeld. Brilliant. Although it's not always visible, apparently every color in this segment has at least a little bit of blue in it. Notice the man with African features actually has purple skin. Eric Goldberg directed both this segment and the Saint-Saens (flamingo with yoyo).
Most confusing: the flying whales. Perhaps because I don't have my eyes on the screen every minute, but also because the "air" was the same color as the water, it was hard to tell when the whales were flying vs. swimming, therefore I didn't catch on that they were flying until quite deep into the piece. I really don't see why the need for such fantasy, since they didn't do anything different in the air than they did in water.
I had trouble getting the Making of doc'y to play on my BD player; it kept going to the feature. I ordered a new one already based on other problems I'd had. (It played fine on my portable.)
Musical numbers animated ("missing" chapter numbers are for the introductory segments, which are brief; nice to know they can be skipped):
- ch 2. Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven; abstract shapes
- ch 4. Pines of Rome by Respighi; flying whales
- ch 6. Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin, Performed by Bruce Broughton, The Philharmonia Orchestra and Ralph Grierson; NYC life
- ch 8. Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102 by Shostakovich; toy soldier
- ch 10. Carnival of the Animals, Finale by Saint-Saëns; flamingo with yoyo
- ch 12. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas, Performed by Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra; repeat of Mickey with dancing brooms from 1940 film
- ch 14. Pomp and Circumstance, Marches #1, 2, 3, & 4 by Elgar, Performed by James Levine, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Kathleen Battle; Donald and Daisy Duck as Noah and wife, getting animals on and off the ark
- ch 16. Firebird Suite - 1919 Version by Stravinsky; fire/lava ravages forest, spring nymph restores it.
Rated 7.2 (31,435)
Disney, dir. various; 7-
