#1161: STANTON, Andrew: WALL-E (2008)

STANTON, Andrew (United States)
WALL-E [2008]
Spine #1161
Blu-ray


A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting robot, to go about the work of cleaning up a pollution-choked planet, one piece of garbage at a time. When he meets EVE, a fellow automaton sent to detect plant life, the pair are launched on an intergalactic quest to return humanity to Earth. Transporting us simultaneously back to cinema’s silent origins and forward light-years into the future, WALL•E is a soaring ode to the power of love and art to heal a dying world.

98 minutes
Color
Dolby Atmos
2:39:1
Criterion Release 2022

Director/Writers

Original story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter.
Screenplay by Stanton and Jim Reardon.
Stanton was 43 when he directed WALL-E.

The Film

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Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Forty-two page booklet featuring an essay by Sam Wasson; selections from Stanton’s sketchbooks, script notes, and drawings; and artwork from the WALL~E team.

Commentary
  1. Featuring Stanton; and
  2. Featuring character supervisor Bill Wise, coproducer Lindsey Collins, story artist Derek Thompson, and lead animator Angus MacLane.
Programs

On Stanton’s cinematic influences and production designer Ralph Eggleston’s color scripts.

Tour

Of the Pixar Living Archive with Stanton.

Behind-the-scenes

Look at the making of the film, including segments from early animation reels.

The Pixar Story (2007)

A documentary by Leslie Iwerks.

More than a dozen documentaries

Exploring the film’s production and robots.

Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant

A masterclass with Stanton.

WALL~E: A to Z

A program featuring Stanton and coscreenwriter Reardon.

Deleted scenes

Featuring commentary by Stanton.

Student film

By Stanton: A Story (1987).

Short film

By MacLane: BURN~E (2008).

Trailers

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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