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...taking old-timey comic books and the bad stuff that’s in the back of my head and blending the two of them,” Escobedo says. “So you have the comforting old-timey classic feel of the 1920s—you know, the comic book characters with the big eyes and floppy arms—but then there’s this intense sexual charge to it. It’s raw, sort of nasty...
...large acrylic painting that depicts the artist’s corpse falling as significant figures from her life latch onto her. Interspersed throughout the painting are bulbous bodies, cartoon eyes and mouths, and detailed hands and feet. These images evidence Escobedo’s internalization of a comic book aesthetic as she symbolically evokes the figure’s reactions to her death...
...school production of Marivaux’s “Games of Love and Chance” to play the counterpart of Lydia’s character. However, Krimo fails to go beyond merely murmuring the lines, since, as a matter of fact, he has never read a single book in his life not to mention 18th-century classical theatre. Kechiche’s camera observes the unfolding of the story with a heavy hue of endearment...
Frodon discussed “None Shall Escape” in the context of his new book “Cinema & the Shoah,” an exploration of cinematic responses to the Holocaust. A complicated relationship between Hollywood and the Nazi Party, he explained, kept American cinema—despite its many Jewish industry leaders—from representing the Nazis negatively until nearly...
...book was written, he says, “not to say how films about the Holocaust should or should not be made,” but rather to explore the connection between profoundly affecting art and its profoundly affecting historical origin.Whether through the viewing of films like “None Shall Escape” or the reading of books like “Cinema and the Shoah,” that connection continues to demonstrate its lasting relevance...