I used to work at the AMC theater close by to Pixar studios. We would always have Pixar employees come by whenever a big movie came out. I remember working the concession stands for one of my shifts and I saw three guys all in blazers come up to the line. They were all wearing masks so I couldn't see exactly who they were but I just knew they had to be from Pixar. When it was their turn to order food, one of them came forward to order for everybody else. It didn't hit me until after they left that the guy I was talking to was Andrew Stanton. I was blown away! Edit: Btw if any Pixar employees are reading this, I’d love to get a tour of the studio 😂
Wow! This is one of my favourite Criterion Closet picks for ages, as are Andrew’s amazing choices. Straight in with Paper Moon and a story about what connects him to each movie. This is how it’s meant to be done - more story, less grabby.
THAT LUCKY B*ST*RD!! One of my absolute favorites. About the best bragging rights I can claim for it was seeing it at my local art house theatre in 1999 when they screened a restored edition of it. It looked and sounded incredible 25 yrs ago.
Wall E is my favorite Pixar movie and in my top 5 of all movies ever. It's a masterful art piece like none other. The use of film language is on another level. Even though it gets a lot of love, to me it doesn't feel like it gets enough. What treat Criterion peeps. Thank you!
@TomVCunningham only on dvd at the moment. Along with so many of his great films. Men with guns, passion fish, limbo, sunshine state, and brother from another planet, as you know, sir.
Andrew, I know you can't see this but I rediscovered Wall-E after having not seen it in several years and it inspired me to begin pursuing animation as something I can do. Thank you Andrew, your movie saved my life. (Also, I didn't know he was one of the first to see Brazil, that's awesome! The theme was in the trailers for Wall-E)
Ralph loved "Paper Moon", too! It's on my list of Ralphilms that I remember my great friend with..."The Apartment", "The Little Foxes", "The Cool Ones"...thanks for remembering him, Andrew. He loved you (and the great work you did together) a lot.
And there’s the essence of all of Andrew Stanton’s films: “Who am I?”, with thanks to “Lawrence of Arabia”. I absolutely love the unguarded insight the Criterion Closet generates!
WALL-E is my all-time favorite animated film. it is this mixture of everything that i didn't expect and needed but wow... animation was at a peak at that point until "spider-man: across the spider-verse" came out as i don't know how anyone could raise the bar of what animated films could be. i also love "finding nemo" and "finding dory" as my niece and nephew love those 2 films so thank you andrew. you got awesome tastes.
Criterion should release more animated films! Recent titles like 'I Lost My Body', 'In This Corner of the World', and 'It’s Such a Beautiful Day' would be fantastic additions to the collection.
This is wonderful, and it's the first time I've actually seen everything someone picks. And when he mentions John Sayles' expertise in "multi-character narratives," I immediately thought of his "City of Hope," which hardly ever gets mentioned or remembered - that would be a great Criterion addition.
Great picks and stories as always from the closet. It’s half confessional and half beauty parlor / Barber shop for eliciting stories and reflections. Andrew is certainly a genius. I have always appreciated his commitment to the power of story.
BRAZIL!!! First Criterion edition I ever bought when I got my first DVD player in 2000. I was at the now-defunct Media Play in Cheektowaga NY and they didn't have the boxed set of it BUT an employee went onto their computer and found it at another MP location. Buzzed out there and snatched it up!
A mention of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring?! I never hear anyone talk about those two movies! I have always hoped they would get added to Criterion as a double pack.
I love the mention of one of my favorite movies Midnight Run,a perfect ending, great chemistry, and Dennis Farina playing the first of three times as a violent, profane, gangster, Get Shorty and Snatch are the others. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and I still have all of my Criterion laserdiscs.
There is a scene in Defending Your Life where Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep are sitting on or near the rim of a public square water fountain; they’re having a private conversation but you can’t hear what is being said because of the noise of spouting water flowing up and back into the fountain bowl; as Bill Wyman says in The A.R.M.S. Concert, “apart from that…”; really love this movie and Albert Brooks/Meryl Streep.
Wow, in all of the years I've been watching this Andy is the closest to what I would pick. Add Paris, Texas and I would have fallen to the floor. Local Hero has always had a special place in my heart and I have actually driven to Kansas to find the last location in Paper Moon (the "road to nowhere") and photographed it. Then he added The Worst Person In The World and I was amazed - a film that just knocked me over and one that I've seen multiple times. All of his pics were great!
His choices were so close to many I'd choose, it feels like he could be my brother, hahaha!! Love that he knew the release date of Paper Moon and jumped on that, the story with Brazil; for Bill Forsythe I would have picked Gregory's Girl or Housekeeping. This is a guy who will have everything he's done in the CC one day!!
Pixar has been amazing for families all around the world. Just wanted to say that. Also am from wv and yeah matewan rules. It’s a far too little known part of American history. Wall-E is super underrated! Great picks!
Apart from using the non-word “impactfully,” this was pretty damn great. I own Thinking in Pictures and read it in college, shortly after seeing Matewan for the first time. I could argue that no film has had a more formative effect on me - as a person, as a thinker, as a citizen - than Matewan. Seeing it get the shout-outs it deserves is marvelous (I’m lookin’ at you, Winona Ryder).
excited to see what Andrew does with Toy Story 5 - as much as I thought 3 and 4 were both great epilogues, I'm curious to see what they can do and how many finales they can make for this franchise, and with Andrew at the helm I know it's gonna be good 'cause I trust his output we'll see how this goes y'all
omg - i had my very first panic attack and didn't know what it was. i thought i was dying. not kidding. you know what set it off, andrew? watching "defending your life" and getting to the reincarnation pavilion set off the biggest laughing fit me and a friend had ever had. we were sort of high btw. every time he laughed, it made me laugh more, and vice versa. we were in a hideous trap-loop. then BAM! panic attack.
JOHN CARTER is the underrated masterpiece of Disney filmmaking during the 2010s. It is superior in every single storytelling/film making facet to everything LucasFilm has produced since being acquired by DISNEY. In retrospect, burying JOHN CARTER to make new STAR WARS films is looking like a Massive mistake. Only Disney & the Government could be incompetent enough to lose money making new Films in the most important film franchise in cinematic history. After the success of FINDING DORY, they should have let Stanton take another crack at GODS OF MARS, heck even if it was animated, just to complete the story would have been an incredible gift.
Look! This is exactly what this format should be: Chosing favorite movies that have made a huge impact. On contrary to all participants, who picks their own films and rambles about how great they are...
Yeah, right. Having pride when you're WORKING! Since you aparantly don't get the main idea of this concept: personal film recommendations from your own perspective. That's Not the same thing as a celebration of your own egomaniac productions. But to understand that you probably must come out of the closet...
Yeah right. Having pride when you Working is another thing. But the main idea of this concept is to show the audience your personal preferences of films. It's Not the same thing as invited guests braging about their own productions.
Worst Person in the World is one of those movies where everyone who sees it has a different take. His take is much more charitable towards the main character than mine. Of course Lawrence was a pretty terrible person as well, so maybe not.
I haven't stopped shaking since hearing someone liken Lawrence of Arabia (the best film yet made) to The Worst Person in the World (most baffling critical darling of recent years).
@@saintsalieri Shaking in fear for mankind or rage? I loved Worst Person in the World because there was so much I could relate to after being married to someone like the main character and the cancer stuff was very realistic. I like Bridge Over River Kwai over Lawerence and Rear Window is the best film yet made.
@RichardsShortHorrorFilms haha, i just thought it was a crazy comparison. I found the film kind of twee, and the cancer stuff felt tacked on (kind of like Terms of Endearment or another tearjerker). I love Bridge! Have you had a chance to watch Lawrence on 4kUHD yet? It's an experience man. Rear Window doesn't rate nearly as high as either of these films for me tho.
@@saintsalieri The cancer stuff was more about her reaction than getting anything out of the audience, though for personal reasons i had a strong reaction. I would love to see Bridge and Lawrence on the big screen on real film. As you can tell by my name I'm a horror/thriller guy, so Rear Window does it for me. I'm guessing by your name you're an anti-mozart guy.
Paper Moon wow great film with a beautiful style. Not a huge fan of Wall-E though. Liked it as a kid but as I got older learned how woke and anti-American the message actually is. Ive seen recently though that Pixar is trying to ease back off of the woke messaging so thats a good step in the right direction.
This type of culture war brain rot is so pathetic. You need to log out once in a while and touch grass. Most of the best art of all time would have you seething over its perceived "wokeness", just pure delusion.
you're too online pal, get off the internet and talk to real people - judging by your comment you're still pretty young so I don't know who or what hurt you to lead you down this road but I hope you recover from it
@@h0lly_blue Lol Nothing hurt me, I've never been more aware of whats real. thanks for the concern but im a grown man almost 20 nothing to recover from perfectly healthy
@@RB-.- if you're 19 and 95% of your vocabulary revolves around the word "woke" I don't think that classifies as being particularly "healthy" - IDK if you're in a cult or your parents are taking advantage of your impressionable mind but it's not too late to come back to the light
I used to work at the AMC theater close by to Pixar studios. We would always have Pixar employees come by whenever a big movie came out. I remember working the concession stands for one of my shifts and I saw three guys all in blazers come up to the line. They were all wearing masks so I couldn't see exactly who they were but I just knew they had to be from Pixar. When it was their turn to order food, one of them came forward to order for everybody else. It didn't hit me until after they left that the guy I was talking to was Andrew Stanton. I was blown away!
Edit:
Btw if any Pixar employees are reading this, I’d love to get a tour of the studio 😂
This makes me laugh, because that is "our" theater. Never saw anyone famous there, though.
What movie were they seeing, do you know
@ it was that David Bowie movie Moonage Daydream
Andrew's a really great guy. I'm not at the studio anymore, but they had to go to a no-tours policy years ago. Just FYI.
Wow! This is one of my favourite Criterion Closet picks for ages, as are Andrew’s amazing choices. Straight in with Paper Moon and a story about what connects him to each movie. This is how it’s meant to be done - more story, less grabby.
Dude was there for Brazil's surprise screening?! Might've been like buying a copy of Velvet Underground & Nico upon initial release
THAT LUCKY B*ST*RD!! One of my absolute favorites. About the best bragging rights I can claim for it was seeing it at my local art house theatre in 1999 when they screened a restored edition of it. It looked and sounded incredible 25 yrs ago.
Wall E is my favorite Pixar movie and in my top 5 of all movies ever. It's a masterful art piece like none other. The use of film language is on another level. Even though it gets a lot of love, to me it doesn't feel like it gets enough. What treat Criterion peeps. Thank you!
Agreed on all counts. Wall-E is a brilliant movie, regardless of genre and time period.
Preach brother PREACH
John Sayles and his films deserve all the love in the world.
Can Criterion do Brother From Another Planet - please
Absolutely. Arguably the best American writer director of the last 45yrs. I'm biased haha.
I need a "The Secret Of Roan Inish" release.
@TomVCunningham only on dvd at the moment. Along with so many of his great films. Men with guns, passion fish, limbo, sunshine state, and brother from another planet, as you know, sir.
@@TomVCunninghamyes! 💚💚💚💚💚
I just met Andrew Stanton back in August. He’s awesome.
Watching the supplement videos on WALL-E you get a great sense of the grit and skill Andrew brings to his films. One of a kind 👏🏻
Definitely, and I have to say that WALL-E is a masterpiece.
Andrew, I know you can't see this but I rediscovered Wall-E after having not seen it in several years and it inspired me to begin pursuing animation as something I can do.
Thank you Andrew, your movie saved my life.
(Also, I didn't know he was one of the first to see Brazil, that's awesome! The theme was in the trailers for Wall-E)
everyone getting Local Hero makes me happy
That's a movie that more people need to see. It could heal the world.
Loving the John Carter love (all three of us!) A fun, imaginative adaptation that absolutely did not deserve it's reputation.
Ralph loved "Paper Moon", too! It's on my list of Ralphilms that I remember my great friend with..."The Apartment", "The Little Foxes", "The Cool Ones"...thanks for remembering him, Andrew. He loved you (and the great work you did together) a lot.
This guy has helped me growing-up with his writing on his movies. Thank you. Toy Story was a revelation. Amazing screenplay. Sir, I appreciate it!
And there’s the essence of all of Andrew Stanton’s films: “Who am I?”, with thanks to “Lawrence of Arabia”. I absolutely love the unguarded insight the Criterion Closet generates!
Andrew Stanton is an icon. Love his movies like Finding Nemo and Wall-E.
Anyone who appreciates the genius of Albert Brooks always has my heart.
His comments on paper moon have me intrigued, i may have too seek that out.😮
Same. I was already intrigued but now I HAVE to just sit down and watch this damn thing
You must be quite the youngster.
Another guest picking Matewan. ❤️
WALL-E is my all-time favorite animated film. it is this mixture of everything that i didn't expect and needed but wow... animation was at a peak at that point until "spider-man: across the spider-verse" came out as i don't know how anyone could raise the bar of what animated films could be. i also love "finding nemo" and "finding dory" as my niece and nephew love those 2 films so thank you andrew. you got awesome tastes.
Stanton's work on "WALL-E" will always be my favorite .
The ending credits I especially remember because the whole theater stayed to watch!
Criterion should release more animated films! Recent titles like 'I Lost My Body', 'In This Corner of the World', and 'It’s Such a Beautiful Day' would be fantastic additions to the collection.
This is wonderful, and it's the first time I've actually seen everything someone picks. And when he mentions John Sayles' expertise in "multi-character narratives," I immediately thought of his "City of Hope," which hardly ever gets mentioned or remembered - that would be a great Criterion addition.
Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo Criterion collection when?
Yes!!! Andrew made it in, all we need now is for Pete and Brad to enter in
I think Brad would kick out the driver and take everything with him.
Totally
Pete is a big fan of black n white comedies, so he'd just take 10 copies of the Tati collection.
Defending Your Life is essential, glad to see it get love!
I could not click on this thumbnail fast enough!
Andrew... Finding Nemo is a PERFECT film. Perfect.
Criterion.. thank you for this one!
Appreciate his reasoning for why he loves Lawrence of Arabia. And his appreciation for laserdisc! ✊👏
Andrew Stanton deserves more flowers
Love what he said about Lawrence of Arabia, and have never considered Matewan. Great trip to the closet!
EVERY CHOICE IS A BANGER. Love him and his films.
Great picks and stories as always from the closet. It’s half confessional and half beauty parlor / Barber shop for eliciting stories and reflections. Andrew is certainly a genius. I have always appreciated his commitment to the power of story.
BRAZIL!!! First Criterion edition I ever bought when I got my first DVD player in 2000. I was at the now-defunct Media Play in Cheektowaga NY and they didn't have the boxed set of it BUT an employee went onto their computer and found it at another MP location. Buzzed out there and snatched it up!
A mention of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring?! I never hear anyone talk about those two movies! I have always hoped they would get added to Criterion as a double pack.
I love the mention of one of my favorite movies Midnight Run,a perfect ending, great chemistry, and Dennis Farina playing the first of three times as a violent, profane, gangster, Get Shorty and Snatch are the others. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and I still have all of my Criterion laserdiscs.
I was taken back at first. I too love Brazil and Local Hero. The man has good taste.
Local Hero is my all time favorite film and Matewan is easily in my top 10!Love to encounter someone else who appreciates them!
There is a scene in Defending Your Life where Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep are sitting on or near the rim of a public square water fountain; they’re having a private conversation but you can’t hear what is being said because of the noise of spouting water flowing up and back into the fountain bowl; as Bill Wyman says in The A.R.M.S. Concert, “apart from that…”; really love this movie and Albert Brooks/Meryl Streep.
Thinking in Pictures rules! It also includes the full Matewan screenplay. Highly recommended.
i saw a john carter of mars free preview at the ny producers guild and loved it i never understood the weird h8 🎉
Andrew and I are obviously close in age, because all the films he saw and loved back in the day I saw for the same reasons he did. Great selection!
Wow, in all of the years I've been watching this Andy is the closest to what I would pick. Add Paris, Texas and I would have fallen to the floor. Local Hero has always had a special place in my heart and I have actually driven to Kansas to find the last location in Paper Moon (the "road to nowhere") and photographed it. Then he added The Worst Person In The World and I was amazed - a film that just knocked me over and one that I've seen multiple times. All of his pics were great!
Nice visit with beautiful movie
His choices were so close to many I'd choose, it feels like he could be my brother, hahaha!! Love that he knew the release date of Paper Moon and jumped on that, the story with Brazil; for Bill Forsythe I would have picked Gregory's Girl or Housekeeping. This is a guy who will have everything he's done in the CC one day!!
I am loving the high output of these videos
I love you Andrew!!!! Happy new year!
It's only fitting that he should have Brazil on his list! ❤ Stanton is an underrated filmmaker, imo. Brilliant choices as always!
Yes Andrew Stanton, Local Hero is the greatest!
Pixar has been amazing for families all around the world. Just wanted to say that. Also am from wv and yeah matewan rules. It’s a far too little known part of American history. Wall-E is super underrated! Great picks!
I can't wait for the Criterion edition of John Carter!
I love that movie unironically. If you know old sci-fi, it hits right.
haha not likely but I'd buy that thing in a heartbeat
Finally, or at least the first time I’ve seen the Defending Your Life pick, great film
Paper Moon is one of my favorite movies. It is so funny and heartwarming at the same time
Great choices!!
Easily the most interesting Criterion Closet in a long time. Thank you very much!
Oh wow what a good get. He's so amazing.
Apart from using the non-word “impactfully,” this was pretty damn great. I own Thinking in Pictures and read it in college, shortly after seeing Matewan for the first time. I could argue that no film has had a more formative effect on me - as a person, as a thinker, as a citizen - than Matewan. Seeing it get the shout-outs it deserves is marvelous (I’m lookin’ at you, Winona Ryder).
Sounds like you read that book rather impactfully.
We Got Lee Unkrich & Andrew Stanton, We Just Need Brad Bird & Pete Docter to be in the Closet
Cool picks from a legend. Nice
Beautiful photo
excited to see what Andrew does with Toy Story 5 - as much as I thought 3 and 4 were both great epilogues, I'm curious to see what they can do and how many finales they can make for this franchise, and with Andrew at the helm I know it's gonna be good 'cause I trust his output
we'll see how this goes y'all
what a legend. more pixar in the collection please!!
Would be very Interesting if Criterion brought in a Random Subscriber and let them talk about there favorite films for a couple minutes.
WALL・E is one on my favourite films of all time.
I wonder if he heard how much Gilliam gushed over Wall-E. Would've been honored.
I'd have to imagine it got back to him at some point, legendary
Tim Burton’s Closet Picks?
That would be awesome
omg - i had my very first panic attack and didn't know what it was. i thought i was dying. not kidding. you know what set it off, andrew? watching "defending your life" and getting to the reincarnation pavilion set off the biggest laughing fit me and a friend had ever had. we were sort of high btw. every time he laughed, it made me laugh more, and vice versa. we were in a hideous trap-loop. then BAM! panic attack.
THE GOAT IS IN THE CLOSET AT LONG LAST, hope he picked Wall-E lol
Beautiful
Finding Nemo is a masterpiece.
The weirdest thing:
I've never watched Local Hero,but I know Mark Knopfler's soundtrack by heart
He's right about LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. MATEWAN was also great.
excellent film box store..... 💟💟💟💟💟
Please criterion upgrade withnail and I , stray dog, and oliver twist to blu ray!!!
Wall-E and The Dark Knight are why the Oscars switched it to 10 Best Picture nominees.
Stanton Hive we win again
Coincidentally, Wall-e is the only film from Pixar that got a release on Criterion, the best of them all.
For real, it's time to add Woody Allen movies to the criterion collection.
I wonder if this guy would be good for a justice league movie I know that’s werid but it’s interesting
He doesn’t get enough credit for his work in 📺. It was because of him that I learned that in shooting 📺 you don’t show playback
My pick? Disney's JOHN CARTER (2012) 🏆
Nice 😊
Awesome
Great movie
Lancaster’s performance in Field of Dreams was better than in Local Hero, but you can’t beat Mark Knopfler’s score.
JOHN CARTER is the underrated masterpiece of Disney filmmaking during the 2010s. It is superior in every single storytelling/film making facet to everything LucasFilm has produced since being acquired by DISNEY. In retrospect, burying JOHN CARTER to make new STAR WARS films is looking like a Massive mistake. Only Disney & the Government could be incompetent enough to lose money making new Films in the most important film franchise in cinematic history. After the success of FINDING DORY, they should have let Stanton take another crack at GODS OF MARS, heck even if it was animated, just to complete the story would have been an incredible gift.
I like the fish boy
Nice
It’s too bad Stanton made John Carter for Disney instead of getting a chance at making a Star Wars movie a few years later instead.
WOW
💯👏
The Nemon fish
Look! This is exactly what this format should be: Chosing favorite movies that have made a huge impact. On contrary to all participants, who picks their own films and rambles about how great they are...
Having pride in your own work is a bad thing?
Yeah, right.
Having pride when you're WORKING!
Since you aparantly don't get the main idea of this concept: personal film recommendations from your own perspective. That's Not the same thing as a celebration of your own egomaniac productions.
But to understand that you probably must come out of the closet...
Yeah right.
Having pride when you Working is another thing.
But the main idea of this concept is to show the audience your personal preferences of films.
It's Not the same thing as invited guests braging about their own productions.
Oh, why couldn’t he make the Mario movie instead with Pixar?
Andrew Panton next?
Another guest picking matewan
🥰🥰😍🥰🥰🎉🎉🥰😍🥰🎉🎉🎉🥰🥰🥰🥰
John Carter was a cult classic.
Worst Person in the World is one of those movies where everyone who sees it has a different take. His take is much more charitable towards the main character than mine. Of course Lawrence was a pretty terrible person as well, so maybe not.
I haven't stopped shaking since hearing someone liken Lawrence of Arabia (the best film yet made) to The Worst Person in the World (most baffling critical darling of recent years).
@@saintsalieri Shaking in fear for mankind or rage? I loved Worst Person in the World because there was so much I could relate to after being married to someone like the main character and the cancer stuff was very realistic. I like Bridge Over River Kwai over Lawerence and Rear Window is the best film yet made.
@RichardsShortHorrorFilms haha, i just thought it was a crazy comparison. I found the film kind of twee, and the cancer stuff felt tacked on (kind of like Terms of Endearment or another tearjerker). I love Bridge! Have you had a chance to watch Lawrence on 4kUHD yet? It's an experience man. Rear Window doesn't rate nearly as high as either of these films for me tho.
@@saintsalieri The cancer stuff was more about her reaction than getting anything out of the audience, though for personal reasons i had a strong reaction. I would love to see Bridge and Lawrence on the big screen on real film. As you can tell by my name I'm a horror/thriller guy, so Rear Window does it for me. I'm guessing by your name you're an anti-mozart guy.
@RichardsShortHorrorFilms nope, I'm just the "patron saint of mediocrities' haha
Please don’t fuck up Toy Story 5. That’s all I ask Andrew
bad taste
Paper Moon wow great film with a beautiful style. Not a huge fan of Wall-E though. Liked it as a kid but as I got older learned how woke and anti-American the message actually is. Ive seen recently though that Pixar is trying to ease back off of the woke messaging so thats a good step in the right direction.
Supremely dumb comment.
This type of culture war brain rot is so pathetic. You need to log out once in a while and touch grass. Most of the best art of all time would have you seething over its perceived "wokeness", just pure delusion.
you're too online pal, get off the internet and talk to real people - judging by your comment you're still pretty young so I don't know who or what hurt you to lead you down this road but I hope you recover from it
@@h0lly_blue Lol Nothing hurt me, I've never been more aware of whats real. thanks for the concern but im a grown man almost 20 nothing to recover from perfectly healthy
@@RB-.- if you're 19 and 95% of your vocabulary revolves around the word "woke" I don't think that classifies as being particularly "healthy" - IDK if you're in a cult or your parents are taking advantage of your impressionable mind but it's not too late to come back to the light
Dookie picks
you seem very mature and well-rounded
@h0lly_blue dookie post