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LIMBO

May 3, 2024 By Leave a Comment

LIMBO

LIMBO begins with an Aboriginal painting that gradually fades into the cobbled landscape of the sere and foreboding landscape of the Australian outback. That is where Travis Hurley (Simon Baker) has been sent to look into re-opening the cold case of a missing Aboriginal girl who vanished from the eponymous town of Limbo twenty years… Read More »

Tagged With: Aborigine, Australia, black and white, culture erasure, fallen angel, mystical, outback, racism, stasis

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

March 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS – Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews have been friends and collaborators (L.I.P.S and LAKE MICHIGAN LAKE MONSTER) for a very long time. That, and their particular sense of humor is something that becomes apparent very quickly when speaking to them, as I did via Zoom on March… Read More »

Tagged With: Alton Brown, animation, beavers, black and white, Bob Barito, frostbite, frostbite. Kafka, green screen, John Tray, live-action, log flume, mascot suits, mascot-costume kung fu, Mysterious castles, no dialogue, NYU, snow, sound design, Tom Waits, Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin

THE LIGHTHOUSE

October 26, 2019 By 1 Comment

THE LIGHTHOUSE

A dark and twisted fever dream of a film, THE LIGHTHOUSE confronts the anguish of the human condition with suitable horror and an equally suitable dash of absurdity. Rendered in disturbing grades of black and white, it presents two men tending a lighthouse on a desolate rocky outcropping in the middle of nowhere. In the… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white, homoeroticism, horror, lighthouse, madness, mermaid, scrimshaw

1945

May 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

1945

The Oscars™ are not always the most reliable barometer of cinematic greatness.  Let us remember the year that KRAMER VS. KRAMER beat out APOCALYPSE NOW. This year’s oversights were less egregious, and I am delighted that A FANTASTIC WOMAN won the Best Foreign Language prize.  I am still miffed, though, that 1945 wasn’t even nominated… Read More »

Tagged With: 1945, anti-Semitism, black and white, Hungary, occupation, World War II

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