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WALL-E
Sunday, January 12
11:00 – FFJr.
U.S., 2008
Directed by Andrew Stanton
Voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver
Music by Thomas Newman
WINNER, Academy Awards® – Best Animated Feature, 2009
Approx. 98 min. DCP.
“A masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world — assuming, like the title character, you’re still around when all the humans have taken off and have access to an old video player. Wall-E (that’s the name of the machine) is a trash compactor, the last of his kind from an age in which cleaning up garbage was mankind’s highest priority — before people threw in the towel (and broom) and apparently (no spoilers here!) rocketed away. Now, this squat, childlike robot with his pivoting goggle eyes resides in a metropolis surrounded by skyscrapers that turn out, on closer inspection, to be compressed trash bricks piled high into the soot-gray sky. The movie is a bit of a trash brick itself: Director Andrew Stanton and his Pixar collaborators have taken cultural detritus — bits and pieces from cherished film genres, pop icons, visionary sci-fi tropes, half-remembered bric-a-brac from childhood — and compacted it all into a sublime work of art.” – Rolling Stone
Reviews
“...rich, strange and intriguing…”
– The Guardian (UK)
“…there’s nothing here that’s not wonderfully imagined and lovingly presented.”
– Time Out
“Pixar’s loveliest creation.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
