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Month: November 2013

Animation

It All Started With…A Fish: The Little Mermaid and Disney’s Renaissance

Nov 7, 2013 Brandie Ashe 0

By Brandie Ashe In 1989, the Walt Disney animation studios dipped back into the fairy tale well–one they’d largely avoided, with varying success, since the release of Sleeping Beauty in 1959–and adapted Hans Christian Andersen’s […]

Movies

Escapist Fun in the ’50s Sun: On The Riviera

Nov 6, 2013 The Retro Set 1

So here’s the thing. Walter Lang’s 1951 musical On The Riviera is not a great film. It’s not even a particularly good film. It’s all style without substance, and what could have been a prime […]

Movies

Love is Hell: John Cassavetes’s Shadows

Nov 5, 2013 Drew Morton 2

  The Criterion Collection has reissued their seminal set featuring five (actually six) films from American independent filmmaker forefather John Cassavetes.  Initially released about a decade ago, the reissue features an upgrade from DVD to […]

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La Cage Aux Folles’ 35th Anniversary

Nov 1, 2013 Wade Sheeler 0

I remember when La Cage Aux Folles opened in my neighborhood. I was just a kid, but it was one of those “word of mouth” sensations – at least in LA’s San Fernando Valley. I […]

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