However, when I was around sixteen I decided to fully embrace it again, which coincided with me joining Letterboxd and seeing the years of Barbie film installments I’d missed, so I created a list to keep track of them and have been watching and over-analyzing them since.Īdeola: Barbie movies are so much fun. Zara: It was motivated by both love and curiosity Barbie and her films have been a lifelong interest of mine but which, for several years of my life from late childhood to mid-teens, I hid.
It’s the perfect mix of nostalgic animation and good storytelling to cheer me up. When I feel like life is going haywire, Barbie is my go-to. Sydney: The Barbie films have always allowed me a sense of comfort growing up. We spoke to Sydney, Zara, Adeola, Cherry, Richard and his podcast co-host/our own video editor, AJ, to better appreciate the mammoth task that Gerwig, Baumbach and their star-studded cast and producers have undertaken.įirst things first: Why have you watched every Barbie film?
Because, among the many things Letterboxd is good for, it’s watching how members enthusiastically catalog and rank all the Barbie films made so far-and we didn’t have to work too hard to find some of you to talk to about why you’ve watched every Barbie movie, and what, if anything, this experience did for you. That’s to be expected from the filmmakers behind movies such as Frances Ha, Lady Bird, Marriage Story and multiple Wes Anderson collabs.īut Barbie fans will be watching closely in the hopes that the film also honors the tropes, jams and dramatic stakes of the animated Barbie canon. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are suspected to have drawn inspiration from cinematic gems such as Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and the ‘80s fish-out-of-water rom-com Splash (among other films listed on Margot Robbie’s “Watch for Barbie” Letterboxd list, R.I.P.).
(These were also the years when songwriting stalwarts Amy Powers and Rob Hudnet pumped out arguably the biggest Barbie jams.) But it’s another real-life couple who have penned the new live-action Barbie, which is rollerblading its way onto neon-soaked big screens this July. Many Barbie stans argue the best of the animated Barbie films were made during the Elana Lesser and Cliff Ruby years of the early 2000s, with some fans even briefly petitioning Mattel to let the pair write again.
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