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...helplessness, brutality to compassion. The details in these pages arrange themselves into a vivid collage: the painted yellow footprints on which brand-new Marine recruits are told to stand; the puce and canary Braniff jetliners that fly replacements to Da Nang as if it were a trip to Disney World; U.C.L.A. sweatshirts left behind by retreating Viet Cong; the exploding shoeshine box of an urchin-guerrilla; the contoured fiber-glass chairs that give a military morgue the look of a "futuristic barbership"; the computer printout that informs one veteran that he has been honorably discharged ("I thought...
...Lord of the Rings (1978) into animated features posed insufficient challenge to a man who contains Whitmanesque multitudes. Now he would tell, in an hour and a half of cartoons, the story of 20th century America and its popular music. American Pop would be a nipper version of Disney's Fantasia, and something more: a dirge for lost patriarchy, for the sermons and sins of fathers everywhere, personified by four generations of American pops. One father would die in a tsarist pogrom; the next would become a friend of organized crime; the third would eat Nazi bullets in World...
...Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas, 36, could probably buy control of every film in Hollywood and have enough left over to pick up an MX missile: he is said to be worth more than $100 million. He is building a model-village production plant-a sort of Disney World for cineastes-in Northern California's Marin County. He has seven more Star Wars movies in mind. And he has just produced an adventure film by another strong director: Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg is proud that their picture was completed under schedule...
...AMERICAN POP, Ralph Bakshi tries to do for pop music what Walt Disney did for classical in Fantasia, expanding the melodies into coherent, complex visual experiences. Unfortunately, while Bakshi's animation technique often stupefies, his jumbled, negative vision drags his effort down...
Bakshi seems almost to be the next generation's Disney, provoking blushes (Fritz the Cat, rated X) and gushes (Wizzards, Lord of the Rings). By animating from real-life shots, he limns every nuance of motion, creating a super-reality. Land-scapes and interiors glow with a beauty and vividness that challenge the work of many non-animator cinematographers...