It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in a way it shaped our thoughts on a new release.

I'm Keith Phipps, here this week with Scott Tobias, Tasha Robinson, and joining us from behind the scenes, producer Genevieve Koski.

We're all veterans of the film site that is Azov, where one of our guiding principles was that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more

interesting in context. So every other week, we're getting together to look over a new release

and how it relates to a major movie from the past. Genevieve, what's this week's movie pairing?

We're recording this podcast shortly after the release of The Good Dinosaur, the 16th feature

film from Pixar and the second one to be released in 2015, 20 years after the

release of Toy Story in 1995. The studio has come a long way since then. Pixar is now a familiar

brand name like Disney. In fact, Pixar developed Toy Story with Disney, which after a lot of complicated

legal wrangling and behind-the-scenes politics, purchased Pixar in 2006. Over the years, Pixar's technological advances let it create images no one could imagine when Toy Story hit theaters.

But in some ways, Pixar hasn't changed that much.

Look at Toy Story and you'll find the company's core sensibility already in place.

The film uses humor, well-rounded characters, strong visuals, and carefully doled out pathos

to tell a story about how we're defined by our dreams and by the bonds we form with others, and how time and outside forces threaten to change both of those defining elements. There's a direct line between the friendship forged between Buzz and Woody and Toy Story, and the perils faced by the unlikely friends of the dinosaur Arlo and the K-Boy Spot in The Good Dinosaur. We'll kick off this week's discussion with a deep dive into Toy Story, talking over its animation, its storytelling, and the intangels that have made Pixar a dominant force in filmmaking. Then, in the second half of this week's episode, dropping later this week, we'll bring the Good Dinosaur into the discussion, talking about how the two films relate or don't and how Pixar has

evolved in the 20 years between their release. So grab a moving buddy and watch out for Sid and Scud.

We're headed back to Andy's bedroom circa 1995. It's now almost hard to imagine a world of animation

before Pixar, but it wasn't so long ago. In 1994, Disney's the Lion King shattered expectations by becoming

the highest grossing animated feature of all time. It continued the Disney Renaissance begun in the late

80s and seemed to ensure that Disney would remain the dominant force in animation for the foreseeable future,

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