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SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

February 4, 2015 By 2 Comments

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

SONG OF THE SEA reminds us of the power of simplicity in storytelling and in animation.  Hand-drawn and steeped in Irish folklore, it is a profoundly moving experience rife with charm, wisdom, and beauty.  Told from a child’s perspective, the magical and the mundane coalesce in perfect harmony, revealing the one in the other in… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic, cinema, drama, film, folklore, Ireland, Irish, Macha, mythology, narrative, ocean, Owl Witch, seal, selkie

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

February 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

JUPITER ASCENDING. Not.

The Wachowskis know how to produce a spectacle. In that, they may very well be the cinematic heirs of Cecil B. DeMille, whose films featured showmanship of the highest caliber, but some of whose films could charitably be described as insubstantial. And such is the case with the space saga, JUPITER ASCENDING, a film chock-a-block… Read More »

Tagged With: alien abduction, bees, Channing Tatum, Chicago, crop circles, derivative, dinosaur extinction, Eddie Redmayne, folklore, gene splicing, genetics, hero's journey, honeycomb, house-cleaner, Mila Kunis, mythology, repetitive, rip-off

Mark Henn & Mike Surrey Invite Us to Meet THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Mark Henn & Mike Surrey Invite Us to Meet THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

I’ve always said that animators are among the happiest people on the planet, and Mark Henn and Mike Surrey were no exception. Tasked with bringing Tianna and Ray, respectively, to life in Disney’s instant classic, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, they were delighted to talk about the pleasures and perils of returning to a completely hand… Read More »

Tagged With: Anika Noi Rose, Animated film, animators, comedy, Disney, fairy tale, folklore, happiest people. African-American, kids, Mardi Gras float, Mark Henn, Mike Surrey, narrative, New Orleans

Andre Ovredal Exposes the TROLLHUNTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andre Ovredal Exposes the TROLLHUNTER

Andre Ovredal waited over a decade before embarking on his second adventure in feature filmmaking. He used the time to hone his skills as a successful commercial filmmaker in his native Norway, a country whose folklore gifted him with the premise of TROLLHUNTER. A man with a quick wit, and a killer smile, he talked… Read More »

Tagged With: Andre Ovredal, cinema, comedy, fantasy, faux documentary, folklore, Hans Morten Hansen, mythology, narrative, Norway, Norwegian Cinema, Otto Jespersen, trolls

Mitchell Lichtenstein Sharpens His TEETH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Mitchell Lichtenstein Sharpens His TEETH

If there is any truth to the old saying that any publicity is good publicity, Mitchell Lichtenstein is on to something with his feature film debut, TEETH. The writer/director and erstwhile actor decided to go beyond the metaphor of the vagina dentata, and deal directly with that myth, the one that has haunted men though… Read More »

Tagged With: castration, cinema, director, fantasy, feature film debut, film, folklore, gender attitudtes, metaphor, Mitchell Lichetenstein, movie, narrative, nightmare, TEETH, vagina dentata, writer

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