Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
THE RED SHOES........DANCE AS ART
I think this was my first exposure to ballet in the cinema.......and a far cry from my dance experience with Hazel Jones School of Dance after school in Jr. High School.......
Sunday, November 23, 2008
WINDSOR MCKAY
always my favorite cartoonist! there exists a full length Japanese animated film of "Adventures in Slumberland"........I wonder if Windsor ate bread with ergot.........but that is stuff for a blog in another place.......
Monday, November 10, 2008
MARILYN @82!
would Marilyn be timeless, alive? ageing worked for Hepburn and Grant, Leachman and Connery......but Marilyn? We'll never know, will we? It's not like she was Ruth Gordon, is it!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
CRONENBERG
Of the modern filmakers, David Cronenberg seems to make familiar those links to the hidden Mind...finding lost memories in drawers and closets, hiding evidential things under rugs and within mysterious symbols......more psychological than....say.....Clive Barker, who delves more into the nature of fear of supernatural Evil than into the psychological nature of confusion and madness....