Wes Anderson’s new movie Fantastic Mr. Fox takes a beloved children’s book–his beloved book from childhood I assume–and turns it into a film for adults–I’m hearing tales of kids leaving the theatres disappointed and bewildered. Spike Jones and Dave Eggers transformed Where the Wild Things Are in a very similar vein, bringing the sad weight [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Happiness is, happiness is, happiness is…well, sometimes it is a warm gun. Sometimes a warm cup of milk. But most of the time, for Meera, it was the Regal Cinema. By the time she was fifteen, her mother let Meera take the bus the twelve blocks down sunny, suburban Merton Street to the dilapidated movie [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This whole tea party thing looks highly dangerous. Even though estimates of how many turned out for the tea party protests are relatively modest, it’s still a significant number, and the whole event could spiral into a much larger movement through media mishandling.
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Witness the fruits of my slightly tedious labor! The following is an excerpt from Man with a Movie Camera, an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. Our teacher gave us four minutes to score, which I did with samples courtesy of the free sound project, archive.org and disparition.net. Favorite part? Matching [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Moon
An astronaut movie more like Solaris and nothing like Apollo 13.
Why: A great scifi plot, Sam Rockwell, an amazing actor who has so far skimmed slightly under the radar, and Kaya Scodalerio from Skins, my favorite show from 2008.
Light Boxes
A novel by Shane Jones about a war waged by a group of balloonists against the [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Ang Lee’s most recently released film, 2007’s Lust, Caution has been described by critics as an espionage thriller, which does little to convey the major themes of this elegant elegy that follows a young girl’s journey from student to spy.
Posted on December 17th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Check out this excellent post on the Eight Douchiest Vampires Ever.
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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I got to watch an advance screening of Danny Boyle’s latest, Slumdog Millionaire, a couple of weeks ago. First of all, I am a huge Danny Boyle fan — there is something in his incredibly humane worldview in every one of his films that just captivates me. Even when he is dealing with horrific material [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Went to see Traitor this weekend. A great film that sadly may not find the audience it deserves (doesn’t seem like it’s being promoted much), Traitor features many of the hallmarks of a classic genre thriller, with the FBI playing cat and mouse against a rogue agent against an international backdrop. But Traitor has ambitions [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Anne Trubeck over at Good Magazine certainly thinks so. Trubeck states that J.D. Salinger’s classic “lacks the currency or shock value it once had, and has lost some of its critical cachet,” perhaps challenging its status as a classic. I tried to hearken back to when I read Catcher in the Rye — high school [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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