Wall-E

2008. USA. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Screenplay by Stanton, Jim Reardon. With Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard. “There’s never been anything in animation like the first forty minutes of Wall-E, a magical juxtaposition of a joyous song from Hello, Dolly! with a vision of a barren earth whose sole inhabitant—besides a cockroach—is a little trash-compacting robot that can’t stop building skyscrapers of garbage. And the latter section of the film, a satire of rampant consumerism dressed up as genial comedy, redoubles the daring of this Pixar masterpiece” (Joseph Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal). NYFCC Best Animated Film, 2008. 97 min.