Word: celluloid
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COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...director Rob Marshall's bold, strutting, rapaciously funny version, puts the cynicism up front, where it can titillate, horrify and instruct us. The movie cheerfully displays the backstabbing and lies--the desperation to be No. 1 and have everyone else be zero--that go into making the tabloid and celluloid shams that beguile...
...Constitution guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers, and while it’s a little troubling to learn that our peers find Regis Philbin really funny (something the Framers can’t have anticipated), and disappointing to learn just how far district court is removed from celluloid courtroom drama, it is also reassuring to learn that the justice system requires us to spend a morning in a narrow room stocked with old magazines more frequently than it requires us to be moral giants...
...first lecture, entitled “Pride: Determination as an Art Form,” Mitchell discussed the various ways African-American pride has been displayed on celluloid. Much of Mitchell’s talk focused on the Blacksploitation era of the late ’60s and ’70s. At a time when most American cinema was dark and depressed, the Blacksploitation pictures, strangely enough, offered hope and “sheer joy” to moviegoers. The heroes of black action pictures always triumphed over their enemies and the women were empowered. Mitchell also took special...