I have not read The Borrowers books so I don’t know what sort of fidelity this movie keeps with the source material aside from keeping Arietty’s name. It displays great fidelity and continuity with the aesthetics and vision of Studio Ghibli, however. Afterwards, I remarked to my friends with whom I saw the film that [...]
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The Secret World of Arietty – A Brief Review
Posted in Movies and Television, tagged anime, manic pixie dream girl, movie reviews, movies, spirited away, studio ghibli, the borrowers, the secret world of arietty on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Shields of Lothlorien
Posted in Art Thief, Literature and Language, Movies and Television, tagged delmar loop, dragonflies, elves, frames, framing, gallery framing, j.r.r. tolkien, lightroom lomo preset, lomography, lord of the rings, lothlorien, middle earth, picture frames, shields on Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everlasting Moments…Oh my!
Posted in Art Thief, Movies and Television, tagged David Edelstein, everlasting moments, films, Jan Troell, movie trailers, movies, npr, photography, pleasantville on Friday, March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having heard this movie review on NPR this lunchtime, I am very excited to see this film (here is the Youtube version of the trailer). Aside from the fact that I shoot digital and so no longer experience any of the travail and joys and anticipation of the development process, the visuals in the film, [...]
Slumdog Actors Update
Posted in Blogness, Movies and Television, tagged academy awards, bollywood, bombay, danny boyle, hollywood, india, mumbai, oscars, slumdog millionaire on Friday, February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having written this blog post, it is only fair that I mention that the two child actors seem to be getting more useful compensation, even as they head off to the Oscars to make Hollywood celebrities feel better about themselves. I am not sure if Slumdog should win best picture, even though it seems likely [...]
The Dassler Effect, A Retrospective
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Blogness, Catapult Magazine, Church Life and Theology, Culture, God's Grandeur, Guest Blogger, Haiku, Influences, Library Stuff, Literature and Language, Movies and Television, Music, Personal Growth or Lack Thereof, Poetry, Politics, Sonnets, tagged blog, c. s. lewis, Culture, dassler effect, film, literature, movies, Music, photography, Poetry, Politics, tolkien on Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, this new version of The Dassler Effect has had a more promising start than I could have imagined. And yet its previous incarnation was no slouch either (it still shows up first on Google). Because it was around for longer, it has far more more photos on it than the current blog and there [...]
A Review of “Slumdog Millionaire”
Posted in Catapult Magazine, Movies and Television, tagged anil kapoor, bollywood, bombay, Catapult Magazine, danny boyle, dev patel, india, irfan khan, millions, movie review, mumbai, review, slumdog millionaire on Monday, December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new issue of catapult, “Duck, Duck, Goose,” about “our attempts and failures, intentional or otherwise, to fit in” is out. In it, I have a review of a film currently showing in cinemas which is set in India and….well, I will just let the review do the talking. Here is the website for the [...]