https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-hot-tub-time-machine-how-to-20100326/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/in-theaters-hot-tub-time-machine-how-to-20100326/#comment-17835 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:18:09 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=4035#comment-17835 I agree with your comments about Waking Sleeping Beauty; i saw it at the Toronto filmfest and quite surprised by how much i enjoyed it despite the rather dry KenBurns style. Nobody can deny what an important period for animation and for Disney itself their mid-90s era turned out to be.
It was a weird counterpoint to a doc that screened at TIFF years earlier though called "The Sweatbox", an incredibly no-holds-barred expose of Sting's problems with Disney while doing the music for "The Emperor's New Groove", seemingly granted unlimited access to certain backroom conversations on the mere virtue of the fact that he's international pop superstar Sting. One of the most fascinating un-PR'd looks into the Disney creative process I've known to exist (if the film even exists at all anymore; i've never known it to screen at another festival or be released in any format.) I politely asked Peter Schneider about his thoughts on that film after TIFF's "Waking Sleeping Beauty" screening and he diplomatically gave a vague answer about the powers that be simply not agreeing with points of the doc and exercising their say in not allowing its release.

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