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Posted by R. Fiore on March 15th, 2010 at 2:23 AMI saw Stanley Kubrick’s movie of A Clockwork Orange again recently, and it brought to mind some thoughts while not specifically germane to comics are germane to morally ambiguous entertainment, which comics tend to be. (I’m assuming you’ve all…
Like a Mechanical Bird: The Peculiar Stoicism of David Wayne (Part Two of Two)
Posted by Donald Phelps on March 3rd, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Besides Joseph Losey, one filmmaker, to my knowledge, provided David Wayne’s talents and presence with fully ample and honorable space: star stature.
Previously: Part One.
Like a Mechanical Bird: The Peculiar Stoicism of David Wayne (Part One of Two)
Posted by Donald Phelps on March 2nd, 2010 at 12:01 AMAn appreciation of character actor David Wayne.
Lucky Jim: Very Good, Eddie
Posted by Donald Phelps on February 12th, 2010 at 12:01 AMPreston Sturges’s Diamond Jim — the corpulent life and gastronomic loves of 19th-century entrepreneur and (as here depicted by Edward Arnold) zealous chowhound, James Brady — is (as directed by Edward Sutherland, from Sturges’ screenplay) a cheerfully sensual saga: leisurely,…
Well, I Went and Saw Avatar
Posted by R. Fiore on February 5th, 2010 at 4:42 PMTook me out of myself for a couple of hours.
Which “End” is Up?: Some Reconsiderations of Calder Willingham’s End as a Man
Posted by Donald Phelps on February 2nd, 2010 at 12:01 AMPhelps critiques the book and the subsequent stage and film adaptations.
“An Art Unscrolling in Time”: An Interview with Mindy Aloff
Posted by Kent Worcester on January 31st, 2010 at 12:06 PMAs promised: my interview with the dance critic Mindy Aloff, author of Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation (Disney Editions, 2009). I learned a lot from her book, and enjoyed interviewing her for the Journal. The interview…
Dance and Comics
Posted by Kent Worcester on January 28th, 2010 at 2:41 PMIn the next few days I hope to post my interview with Mindy Aloff, the author of an excellent new book on Disney and dance, Hippo in a Tutu (2009). Aloff is an established dance critic who has written for…
Hume and Jessica: A Matched Pair
Posted by Donald Phelps on January 21st, 2010 at 12:01 AMDonald Phelps examines the art of the married stage-and-screen actors Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.
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