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...budget action and independent markets as well, directing movies that can serve as calling cards to the major studios. Penelope Spheeris, 40, has two grungy, turbulent melodramas in release this month, Hollywood Vice Squad and The Boys Next Door. At the other end of the fringe, Donna Deitch, 40, won the Jury Prize at this year's U.S. Film Festival with Desert Hearts, a tale of Sapphic love in Reno that plays like The Women hyped on estrogen. The festival's Grand Prize went to Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk, which opened in New York City recently to critical raves...
...sailors are captains now, but the seas are still rough. Women directors are free to make "people pictures" with women as sympathetic protagonists--as Deitch says, "We can't leave it all to Woody Allen"--or, like Spheeris and Heckerling, they can turn out action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent...
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch (Pantheon; 2002) Ted Mishkin, an early animator, has a problem. Is his creation, the mischievous, bi-pedal cat Waldo, actually real? Mishkin thinks so, and it drives him insane in this darkly delightful novel. Deitch, an underground comix pioneer, has a style that combines the quaintness of antique toys with the woes of modern life. Full Review
...main themes in "Boulevard," and a main theme in all of Kim Deitch's work, is the blurring of fantasy and reality. One typical scene depicts the recording of sound for a Waldo picture. The comic cuts back and forth between what's happening in the cartoon and what's going on in the studio. The cartoon is itself a parody of what goes on in the animation studio. Finally, the cartoon characters appear to step off of the screen and into the same space as the "real" people. But Deitch goes one further - mixing up true reality with...
...After thirty-five years, it's about time Kim Deitch gets his due. The rich ideas and beautiful cartooning of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," should be just the work to do it. While Deitch likes to explore the seamy, adult world behind the delightful veneer of kiddy pop culture, the book's central theme becomes the transporting power of great Art - even in the form of a cartoon. In the final pages, a tour de force wherein Deitch mixes three different planes of cartoon storytelling, the normally malevolent Waldo has the final...