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'Fantasia 2000' and the Final Gasps of the Disney Renaissance

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In 1999, the greatest period of Disney Animation came to sudden end with a massive financial failure. This is Fantasia 2000 revisited.

October 28th

An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) by Joseph Gelmis Excerpted from "The Film Director as Superstar" (Doubleday and Company: Garden City, New York) Copyright ©1970 Joseph Gelmis, All Rights Reserved Gelmis: 2001 took about three years to make - six months of preparation, four and a half months of working with the actors, and a year and a half of shooting special effects. [ 9,357 more words ]
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Kubrick, Pudovkin’s Film Technique and Eisenstein

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Kubrick: I read Eisenstein’s books at the time, and to this day I still don’t really understand them. The most instructive book on film aesthetics I came across was Pudovkin’s Fil…

October 19th

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We Blew It? Douglas Trumbull’s ‘Silent Running’ Took the Counter-Culture Legacy of ‘Easy Rider’ As a Paean to the Planet • Cinephilia & Beyond

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By Tim Pelan On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last...

October 16th

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Remembering Steely Dan's 'Aja' 40 Years Later

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“These people are too fancy, they’re too sophisticated," William S. Burroughs said of Steely Dan in 1977. "They’re doing too many things at once in a song." Burroughs, who had no personal connection to the band, had been asked to comment on Aja, Steely Dan’s new record, because co-founder Wa...

October 6th