When Sophocles' Oedipus Rex was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation, Oedipus El Rey, the unifying costume piece for the Latino men who make up the choro is the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of the California State Prison in Delano.
- 10/29/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mubi's retrospective Bertrand Mandico's Cinema is showing July 26 - October 7, 2017 in many countries around the world.The cinema of French filmmaker and animator Bertrand Mandico is unique in its approach to depicting the human body. For Mandico, the body’s status as a film subject is comparable to and interchangeable with that of any other film subject. That is, ‘animate objects’—such as human characters or animals—occupy the same cinematic roles as ‘inanimate’ ones—such as housewares or artificial structures, collapsing the binary that exists between the two. Mandico’s films time and again blur the line between binaries—animate and inanimate, male and female—and in doing so demonstrate their arbitrary nature as film subjects. Bodies and objects in Mandico’s cinema often appear abstracted and juxtaposed vis-a-vis each other, such as when women portray lamps and men portray statues in Our Lady of Hormones (2014). At first glance,...
- 8/28/2017
- MUBI
[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Universal and Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me 3.]
With any film series, sometimes a misstep is inevitable — and for Despicable Me 3, it's misstep surprisingly involves a trope from the soap opera world.
And that’s not to say that the movie contains poor lighting or schmaltzy over-the-top acting. Rather, the plot hinges on the long-overused trope of the “long-lost relative,” a cliche so old that Sophocles was writing about it in ancient Greece with Oedipus Rex and has been parodied in the form of All My Circuits on Futurama, Moody’s...
With any film series, sometimes a misstep is inevitable — and for Despicable Me 3, it's misstep surprisingly involves a trope from the soap opera world.
And that’s not to say that the movie contains poor lighting or schmaltzy over-the-top acting. Rather, the plot hinges on the long-overused trope of the “long-lost relative,” a cliche so old that Sophocles was writing about it in ancient Greece with Oedipus Rex and has been parodied in the form of All My Circuits on Futurama, Moody’s...
- 7/2/2017
- by Josh Weiss
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Musicals Collection Blu-ray set from Warner Home Video contains four Hollywood classics of the genre, at least two of them among the greatest of all time: Kiss Me Kate, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, and Singin’ in the Rain. And all except for Singin’ in the Rain are making their Blu-ray debut. While the films may not rank equal in terms of quality—those latter two titles are the all-time greats—each of the transfers are outstanding, the movies themselves are still nevertheless enjoyable, and the set is a terrific bargain.
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
- 3/17/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
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