Caught internally and with little to do but read books, cook things and annoy our friends and family, there is no time like this to fully use all those broadcasts that we pay for and underutilize. For our new broadcast column, we bring in combination the maximum of 10 sensitive existing videos in a given genre that you can stream at home. Given the multitude of streaming options, we restrict our search to a variety of the most important and well-known, Amazon Prime, Disney and Netflix, as well as a niche we offer, Channel Criterion, without which, honestly, we would not be able to live.
This week’s gender: Children
So much suffering that adults have endured under the ruthless provinces of Covid-19, our young people have paid dearly for their early school breakup, at the speed of online learning, without a school year-end degree or closure, and one in the summer, with travel plans and camps cancelled. Not that parents haven’t had to browse the streaming sites, locating every piece of entertainment imaginable to send their stormy hordes, but anyway, here’s a list of glorious, kid-friendly videos that parents can also enjoy if they are. forced to sit on the sofa with their abundant offspring.
“City Lights” (1931): Charlie Chaplin has become a comedy superstar thanks to his common genius of physical comedy, of course, but also his cunning emotional equalizer: his understanding of human psychology was as acute as Spielberg’s (for the elderly and for the worse). This delicious silent film unearths the oppressed tramp madly in love with a blind woman (Virginia Cherrill), who thinks he is a wealthy duke. When she frantically sets out a series of plans to earn cash to pay for an operation to repair her vision, she prepares for the inevitable moment when she sees how wrong she was about her monetary situation.
Children’s target audience: sentimental/non-traditionalists/lovers of visual gag
Example of dialogue: “Remember, we’ve split up fifty percent and you promise you’ll hurt me.”
Streaming service: Criterion Channel
“Coco” (2017): A strong, later Pixar film, and his first Hispanic adventure, the story considers a boy (Anthony Gonzalez), desperately short to be a musician to the dismay of his family, having long decreed a ban. opposed to such artistic madness. Finally, the boy goes to the land of the dead to seek the recommendation of his deceased grandfather, who was once a wonderful musician. Culturally and emotionally evocative, the film through Lee Unkich and Adrian Molina is also visually captivating.
Children’s target audience: music lovers/aspiring/color fans
Dialog example: “Forgotten. When there is no one left in the living world to remember you, you disappear from this global. We call it ultimate death.”
Streaming service: Disney
“Elephant” (2020): To NOT be with Gus Van Sant’s drama of the same call (it would be a traumatic mistake), this Disneynature animal documentary focuses on an elephant mother and her young calf as they make the long migration through the Kalahari Desert to the invigorating waters of the Zambezi River. As a kind of early documentary experience, Disney’s transparent narrative lines, and relentless anthropomorphism, make it a captivating clock for younger people. Nature is not completely sterilized in those films, however, it softens enough to be sometimes comforting. In particular, Meghan Markle is our narrator, her first concert since the actual move in.
Children’s target audience: first animal lovers/clinical types/young people digging logs
Example of dialogue: “The herd wants to drink, and they accept it as true with Gaia, but it’s disturbing!”
Streaming service: Disney
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009): For top parents, the ultimate imaginable productive result is to be able to watch a movie with your child and love it yourself. The lively and intelligent clay adaptation of Roald Dahl’s e-book through Wes Anderson, co-written through Noah Baumbach, is so full of ingenious fantasies and complex dialogue that it is absolutely irresistible. With an impressive cast of vocals that includes Anderson stalwart Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, as well as George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Willem Dafoe, and with a glorious artistic style, the film remains very enjoyable, regardless of age or disposition.
Children’s audience: readers/language lovers/small insults
Example of dialogue: “Why a fox? Why a horse, or a beetle, or a bald eagle? I say this more as existentialism, you know? Who am I? And how can a fox be satisfied without, will you forgive the expression, a bird between your teeth? “
Streaming service: Disney
“John Mulaney – The Sack Lunch Bunch” (2019): John Mulaney’s comedy combines complicated existence with a strangely comforting feeling from beyond: it’s like a time traveler from another era, but it’s not transparent which direction it’s headed. of — so his special display of varieties for children is quite right for him. He brought your comedy sketches, silly songs and a parade of special appearances, but all with its bow quality that demands situations without falling into total irony. He’s not a consistent father to her, but like your cool uncle you secretly want to live with so you can stay up all night having crackers and bowling, watching monster movies.
Target audience for children: music/dumb/ironist melody enthusiasts
Example of dialogue: “Give me the clarinet you talked about before / I said I didn’t want it / Give it to me, please / You’ll never know what it’s like / When I throw it out the window and the window breaks. “
Streaming service: Netflix
“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” (2012): Interestingly, this is the moment when the animated feature film on this list was written through Noah Baumbach (much better known as live neurotic adult chronicler and their families), but it is also a big winner. This episode discovers the gang joining a European circus in the hope that, despite everything, he will return to his beloved New York (certainly a feeling with which Baumbach, originally from Gotham, can sympathize with). Filled with clever twists and paintings of strong characters (the vocals come with Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock and Frances McDormand), his contagious power propels him as Maglev on rails.
Children’s Target Audience: Animal Lovers / New Yawkers / Lion King Skeptics
Streaming service: HBOM
“My Neighbor Totoro” (1988): One of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved animated works – which says something, given that the wonderful Japanese animator has turned its other 28 titles into a true craft industry – the film, only its feature film at the moment, has all the ingredients that would eventually be identified as its singular genius. Two young women move to the countryside to be close to their unhealthy mother and finish marrying a forest spirit, with whom they share wonderful adventures.
Children’s target audience: adventurers/dreamers/creative types
Example of dialogue: “Trees and other people were smart friends. I saw this tree and to buy the house. I hope Mom likes it too. All right, let’s pay tribute, then stop by the house for lunch.”
Streaming service: HBOM
“Rango” (2011): Before the endless epic of the dissolution of his marriage to Amber Heard, Johnny Depp was a talented and artistic artist, as in turn in Gore Verbinski’s animated western, on an undeniable former chameleon puppy (Depp), who arrives in a dusty Western city of thirsty animals, and is forced to have his sheriff organize a piece of paper at first Then he ends up hating.
Target for Kids: Changing / Gunmen / Braggarts
Example of dialogue: “All right, people; back off, transparent the area, now it’s a crime scene. Secure the stage, remove dust from the prints, check the fibers, scan the DNA, I need a urine pattern from everyone and get a latte. Don’t combine the two.”
Streaming service: Amazon Prime
“The Child Who Dominated the Wind” (2019): One of the serious and factual films that continues to poignant despite his simple predilections, the debut of Chiwetel director Ejiofor considers William (Maxwell Simba), a teenager from Malawi, whose love of science and physics leads him to build a wind turbine for his drought-stricevered village , saving the community. The talented Ejiofor also wrote the script, based on the e-book of now-adult William Kamkwamba. As a testament to how science can bring about positive change, it is directly relevant.
Children’s Target Audience: Young Scientists/Puzzle Enthusiasts
Example of dialogue: “It’s a dream, Dad. I’m dreaming.”
Streaming service: Netflix
“Willy Wonka – The Chocolate Factory” (1971): While we promoted Mr. Depp’s virtues earlier, there is surely no dispute between his unpleasant collaboration with Tim Burton’s novel through Roald Dahl and this original adaptation of Stuart, starring the fearsome Gene Wilder as the sweet titular tycoon, and Peter Ostrum as a young man. Less disturbing than Burton’s performance (even if it’s the one that keeps the racists Oompa-Loompas), this edition captures the ruthless spirit of the original novel, sending ill-educated young people with flint aplomb.
Children’s target audience: book lovers/sweets/young entrepreneurs
Example of dialogue: “If you want to see paradise, just look around and look at it. Whatever you want, do it; to replace the globalArray … there’s nothing to do.”
Streaming service: Netflix