Wall-E

Andrew Stanton, 2008Pixar’s CGI animation about a lovable robot tending a world deserted by the consumer society that made it uninhabitable is a work of genius. It concludes as Wall-E, the dedicated robot, brings our globe back to its senses, down to earth as it were. But the real conclusion comes with the credits , stuck on the end as they usually are nowadays. They recapitulate the history of human culture from cave-paintings to the Impressionists, and they remain unmatched. To appreciate Jim Capobianco’s credits, see them over and over at home