Who Are You Charlie Brown? (2021) - Watching The Charlie Brown Christmas Special is one of my favourite holiday traditions. Year after year it never disappoints. So, you could argue that pure nostalgia drove this choice, as I watched right during the holiday season. This documentary was directed by Michael Bonfiglio and is narrated by Lupita Nyong'o and features interviews with Charles Schulz's widow Jean Schulz, cartoonist Lynn Johnston, actors Kevin Smith, and Drew Barrymore and lots more Peanuts fans.
This documentary delivers a Charles Schulz that is just as warm and lovely as you would hope he would be. Even more interesting was how he layered the world around him into his comic strips. Things like having strong girls in the strip, having Charlie Brown deal with his own insecurities and the introduction of Franklin after a teacher wrote him in 1968 urging Schulz to add a Black character. In between the interviews and the archival footage is a new cartoon with Charlie Brown trying to write an essay for his teacher about who he is. I enjoyed every minute of this one, my only complaint is at just under an hour, it felt too short.
I watched this on AppleTV+
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