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Watch: Pixar’s Best Nods to Movie History

Even if you’re an avowed Pixar skeptic, as I am, this new video compilation by Jorge Luengo on Pixar’s movie allusions will turn your head. The reality is that what will save Pixar, in the end, is its smarts and cleverness; its visual sheen really couldn’t, unless you’ve got android DNA. Pixar films are frisky, and self-aware; their virtues show when they quote "The Shining," or "Vertigo," or "Mission: Impossible," and demonstrate that their reach expands beyond the bounds of what technological virtuosity alone can offer. Watch this, and you’ll be reminded of what it means to have fun at the movies.

Watch: How the Famous ‘Mission: Impossible’ Heist Scene Was Made

If you’re like me, all you took away from the first ‘Mission: Impossible’ film, helmed by Brian De Palma, was the scene where Tom Cruise hangs, arms and legs outwards, suspended from a cable over the floor of an extremely well-protected computer vault as, below him, a rather retiring-looking fellow… types some stuff. One drop of sweat falls from Tom Cruise’s noble brow and: the rest is history. This new ‘Art of the Scene’ installment from Cinefix does the entertaining work of explaining how that scene was made, complete with a clip from, if I’m not mistaken, ‘Rififi.’