Movie Club: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
With pick #34 on the Top 100, we travel back to 1937 and to something that had genuinely never existed before in America: a feature-length animated film. Walt Disney's gamble was so widely doubted that Hollywood called it "Disney's Folly."
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the story we all think we know: a princess, a wicked queen, a poisoned apple, a glass coffin. But people who've revisited it are often surprised by how strange and dark it still feels — how genuinely menacing the Queen is...