Lifted (2007)

My trips to the cinema 2023 (410 movies items)

"WITH: Ratatouille (35mm) | The Black Hole (35mm) DATE: January 16th | July 15th CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema | BFI LOCATION: West End | Southbank NOTE: The Ratatouille screening cost £1 for members. The short film did not screen in front of the feature when I saw it at Showcase."

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (400 movies items)

"WITH: Ratatouille FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Seeing Ratatouille on release, somehow this short was not included, but it was a part of the print that the PCC collected. Dustier than the main feature in all its entirety. DATE: January 16th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2017: March (55 movies items)

"Re-watch - March 25th Thankfully "Lifted" ends the collection so we could go out on a higher note. Not that it takes much to elevate something above Mater's mediocrity, of course. This short never ceases to amuse me with the whole extraterrestrial "driver's" test. It's not great, but I'll gladly watch it several more times. "

1001 Animated Shorts You Must See - The Full List (1001 movies items)

"DIR: Gary Rydstrom SUMMARY: A nervous alien takes his human abduction exam. WHY IT'S HERE: With 'Lifted', Pixar continued its run of top quality shorts. Audiences had obviously come to expect superb animation from the studio and 'Lifted' delivers in this respect, but it also epitomises Pixar's knack for coming up with unexpected subject matter. In this case, we watch an alien take an exam in abducting human beings, his amateurish button-jabbing causing the oblivious subject's sleeping body t"

1001 Animated Shorts You Must See - Part 17 (50 movies items)

"DIR: Gary Rydstrom SUMMARY: A nervous alien takes his human abduction exam. WHY IT'S HERE: With 'Lifted', Pixar continued its run of top quality shorts. Audiences had obviously come to expect superb animation from the studio and 'Lifted' delivers in this respect, but it also epitomises Pixar's knack for coming up with unexpected subject matter. In this case, we watch an alien take an exam in abducting human beings, his amateurish button-jabbing causing the oblivious subject's sleeping body to "