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Waking Sleeping Beauty

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When Disney cartoons became reanimated It was like any other class reunion -- friends who hadn't seen each other for decades catching up while "When You Wish Upon a Star" played in the background. But even though there also was talk of old wounds and slights, this holiday-season gathering...	John Horn LA Times	Full Article
Movie Review: Waking Sleeping Beauty This afternoon I had the chance to see the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated Disney producer Don Hahn (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast). The film is an honest look at the behind the scenes going-ons...	Peter Sciretta SlashFilm.com	Full Article
Telluride 2009 Review: Don Hahn's Waking Sleeping Beauty I'm not normally a documentary guy, they're just not my thing, and I don't fall in love with that many of them. However, earlier today I was encouraged to check out a documentary directed by Don Hahn called Waking Sleeping Beauty about Walt...	Alex Billington FirstShowing.net	Full Article
The not-always-wonderful world of Disney animation If you love The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast, or are a fan of old-style Disney animation in general, be on the lookout next April for Waking Sleeping Beauty. The often-moving and skillfully told documentary, which received its world premiere...	Susan Wloszczyna USA Today	Full Article
Waking Sleeping Beauty - Film Review The turmoil at Walt Disney Studios during the past two decades is a great subject for a documentary, and though a movie made by outsiders might have been more scathing than "Waking Sleeping Beauty", this movie made by insiders Dan Hahn and Peter...	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	Full Article
Drawn to Greatness Director Don Hahn discusses his insightful new documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, which travels back to 1984 to chart the rebirth of Disney's creative spirit and offer a look at the artistic battles that were the backdrop of hits such as The Lion...	Animation Magazine	Full Article
Stephen Holt Interview: "Waking Sleeping Beauty" "Waking Sleeping Beauty" is a terrific new documentary on the tumultuous, incredibly creative decade(1984-1994) at Disney, when animation changed forever. And Producer Peter Schneider and Director Don Hahn were two of the people who changed it...	Stephen Holt AwardsDaily.com	Full Article
Waking Sleeping Beauty - Day Two: CTN Expo with Don & Gary I moderated an interview with Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Don and Gary inspired the SRO crowd with their love of, and enthusiasm for, the future of hand drawn character animation.	CartoonBrew.com	Full Article
Don Hahn and Peter Schneider discuss 'Waking Sleeping Beauty' Hollywood News sat down on Thursday with Hahn and producer Peter Schneider to discuss their work on the film. Comfortably nestled into a couch on the third floor of Disney's old animation building in Burbank, Calif., Hahn and Schneider not...	Todd Gilchrist HollywoodNews.com	Full Article
"Waking Sleeping Beauty" celebrates the Second Golden Age of Disney Feature Animation Which is "Waking Sleeping Beauty," this wonderfully entertaining yet truthful look back at this time in the history of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Which is all the more insightful given the very powerful men that Hahn & Schneider eventually persuaded...	Jim Hill Jim Hill Media	Full Article
STAGE TO SCREENS: "Waking Sleeping Beauty" Charts the Rebirth of Disney Animation A new documentary tells how songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken helped to bring beauty to the slumbering beast that was the 1980s animation department at Disney. "Waking Sleeping Beauty," with its storybook connotation of...	Harry Haun Playbill.com	Full Article
The Chud Interview: Don Hahn & Peter Schneider (Waking Sleeping Beauty) If you had bet against Disney Animation in 1983 no one would have blamed you. But just as things looked bleakest for hand drawn animation at the studio that had all but perfected the technique, a sudden explosion of creativity and genius brought Disney...	Devin Faraci chud.com	Full Article
Exclusive: Don Hahn is Waking Sleeping Beauty If you've ever been a fan of Disney Animation, either as a kid or now, then Waking Sleeping Beauty is a must-see documentary, retaining the spirit and magic of those films so many people love, while also taking a serious no-punches-pulled look at...	Edward Douglas Crave Online	Full Article
'Waking Sleeping Beauty' spins Disney wakeup call It has all the ingredients of a juicy Hollywood story. Money men vs. artists, as studio suits with giant egos told animators how to do their jobs. Established royalty vs. upstart princes, as Roy E. Disney, whose father had run the studio in its glory years...	David Germain Associated Press	Full Article
Review: 'Waking Sleeping Beauty' This tale of artistic reincarnation is a classic show business story, not lacking in temper tantrums and clashing egos, and as told in "Waking Sleeping Beauty" it's got a terrific inside Hollywood sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the...	Kenneth Turan LA Times	Full Article
AN EXCELLENT NEW DISNEY DOC Waking Sleeping Beauty (rated PG) uses home movies to chart a creative rebirth at Disney that led to classics like 1989's The Little Mermaid.	The Must List Entertainment Weekly	Full Article