Category: Film
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Identity and Societal Issues in Zootopia: Disney Doing It Right
Read more: Identity and Societal Issues in Zootopia: Disney Doing It RightI like the direction Disney is heading into lately. While caucasian princesses and male superheroes singing jolly songs and going on quirky adventures are as popular as ever, Disney’s Studios show that they are also capable of addressing more serious issues – in a non-threatening, more cuddly way. An example of this is the…
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Erasure Poem: I Would Like to Know
Read more: Erasure Poem: I Would Like to KnowDuring the last winter months, I dedicated the majority of my time to the creation of my bachelor thesis, which concerned the enigmatic oeuvre of the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. Due to a remarkably minimalist and contemplative style, as well as the foregrounding of ‘time’ and ‘duration’ rather than ‘action’ and ‘motion’, his films are…
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These Are the Films I Was Looking For: A Star Wars Experience
Read more: These Are the Films I Was Looking For: A Star Wars ExperienceI saw my first Star Wars movie less than a month ago. That might not make me the best person to discuss The Force Awakens (2015), the seventh episode in the immensely popular science-fiction franchise. After all, I didn’t grow up with these films, didn’t even know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek…
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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Read more: Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam ChomskyWhat happens when one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and one of the dreamiest film directors of the 21st century meet each other? That is the starting point of the quirky documentary Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, in which director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)) employs…
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Read more: The Secret Life of Walter MittyConvinced that we all have our “Walter Mitty moments”, I wanted to put him in the spotlight. I have only just seen the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which was released in 2013. The movie is based on a short story written by James Thurber (one of his masterpieces), first published in…
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