“The Lennon/McCartney songs used in the film seem to have been conceived and brought forth in the pure simple spirit of mystical innocence, like the works of Chagall. And, like Chagall’s works, the film tries to include everything in the world to make up its own cosmos. The animation style ranges from storybook simplicity to . . . → Read More: 128. YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968)
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Some may count the 1980s as the last great decade of pop culture. I disagree. The first half of the 80s was undoubtedly influential, but it was a continuation of the individuality of the previous decade. Around the halfway mark, the 80s gave way to the lack of personality blandness that saturated the 1990s (and . . . → Read More: SATURDAY MORNING WITH SID AND MARTY KROFFT Guest essay by Jesse Miksic. Warning: this analysis contains spoilers for Return to Oz (1985). The Three Fetishes: Transformation and Ethical Engagement in Walter Murch’s Return to Oz (1985) There is a vast mythology out there, deeper and wider than Middle Earth or Hogwarts, and yet more intimate, more rooted in the flights of fancy . . . → Read More: THE THREE FETISHES: TRANSFORMATION AND ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT IN WALTER MURCH’S RETURN TO OZ (1985) Tenku no shiro Laputa; AKA Laputa: Castle in the Sky DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki FEATURING (U.S. Dubbed Version): James Van Der Beek, Anna Paquin, Cloris Leachman PLOT: A girl who falls from the sky and an orphaned boy search together for a legendary floating city while being chased by flying pirates and a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986) DIRECTED BY: Jim Henson FEATURING: Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie PLOT: A dreamy teenage girl must rescue her kidnapped baby brother by journeying to the Goblin City at the center of a bizarre labyrinth. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Despite the MC Escher-inspired set-design, the unexpected sexual tension between teenaged Connelly and fruitily-dressed . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LABYRINTH (1986) “What is this, a freak out?”–Violet Beauregarde DIRECTED BY: Mel Stuart FEATURING: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole PLOT: Charlie is a poor boy supporting his mother and four bedridden grandparents with the earnings from his paper route. When eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka announces he will be awarding a lifetime supply . . . → Read More: 104. WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) DIRECTED BY: R. Winer, Barry Mahon (Thumbelina) FEATURING: Jay Ripley, Shay Garner PLOT: Santa’s sleigh is stuck in the Florida sand, so he shows the assembled kids a movie until help arrives in the form of a giant rabbit-man in a fire truck. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Santa and the Ice . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY (1972) DIRECTED BY: Jim Henson, Frank Oz FEATURING: Jim Henson, Frank Oz (puppeteering); Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw (voice acting) PLOT: A meek Gelfling sets out on a journey to fulfill the prophecy that he will heal the Dark Crystal. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: With its advanced puppetry and dazzling color, The . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) Guest review by Scott Sentinella, a freelance writer whose work has appeared in “The Carson News”, “The Gardena Valley News”, “Animato”, “Videomania Newspaper”, “Cashiers du Cinemart”, Dugpa.com and ALivingDog.com. DIRECTOR: Norman Z. McLeod FEATURING: Charlotte Henry, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Mae Marsh, Billy Barty, Alison Skipworth, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Sterling Holloway, . . . → Read More: GUEST REVIEW: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933) DIRECTED BY: Michael Rubbo FEATURING: Mathew Mackay, Michel Maillot, Siluck Saysanasy, Alison Darcy, Michael Hogan PLOT: A boy loses his hair from a fright, but some grateful ghosts give him a secret recipe for regrowing it; complications ensure when he doesn’t follow the formula exactly. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s weird—scarringly weird—to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (1985) |
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