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...answer comes in the film??s immense modern relevance: while a few of the 1950s’ sillier notions of sexual behavior have been dispelled—largely because of Kinsey’s seminal study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—many continue to regard some natural sexual urges as immoral. Most recently, eleven states voted to ban gay marriage. For those to whom such reactions to homosexuality and bisexuality seem irrational, the film will resonate particularly deeply after the election led eleven states to ban gay marriage...
...while, they have stuck closely to their core belief that the wit, heart and characters of a film are the keys to a film??s success, not merely expensive actors on voicework or eye-popping technological achievements...
...film??s slick action and outreach to all audiences sets it apart from regular Disney fare. The Incredibles was conceived during the acrimonious splintering of the Disney/Pixar distribution relationship. A subtle hint of this conflict reveals itself when Syndrome, Mr. Incredible’s nemesis, reflects upon his humble origins and proclaims, “You respect me now because I’m a threat...
...also recently screened at the Archive, L’Age d’Or works on two levels: it’s a knee-slapping farce, at the same time deeply wrapped up in a scathing social commentary aimed squarely at the upper class. The targets of the latter film??s satire are Buñuel’s usual suspects: the Church, bourgeois society and other institutions of alleged social oppression...
Greene’s sparsely-worded novels befit a particularly easy conversion to film??almost too easy. “Part of the attraction of translating fiction to the screen is the fact that it is all there,” Wood says. “I think that actually creates a problem because a movie is a director’s vehicle. You find that a [more suitable] novel will give the director license to do [what he creatively innovates...