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Richard Corliss's review of the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Dec. 19] stated that director Andrew Adamson should "stick to animation." Here is a test. Does Narnia make the spirit soar? Does Narnia cause the imagination to fly? Does Narnia make you think, make you wonder, make you aspire? If it does even half these things, not only will encouragement rule the land but also, on the commercial side, the season will ring with the sound of ka-ching! STEVE HORTEGAS Lynden, Wash...
...WIZARD OF OZ VICTOR FLEMING Six years after the big ape fell from the Empire State Building, flying monkeys attacked Dorothy Gale and her friends in Oz. (Need more animals? The Cowardly Lion. And Toto too.) The film, which flopped in its original release but went on to entertain families happily ever after, looks Technicolor terrific on this three-disc set, which includes five promo documentaries, 10 period portraits of the stars and a rare audio clip of Judy Garland sobbing her way through a reprise of Over the Rainbow--a surprise minute or so of heartrending musical melodrama...
...said, ‘no, women.’” Schamus says he hopes mothers worldwide will be the voice of this movie. “Brokeback Mountain”’s strategy seems to be working. Already the winner of the 2005 Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, multiple Golden Globe nominations and with more accolades pouring in every day, the film has also experienced box-office success. The film has sold nearly ten times as many advance tickets as another recent Focus Features’ release, “Pride and Prejudice...
...film version of C.S. Lewis’ classic “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” recently arrived in theatres. If you read the book as a kid, or, like me, had it read to you, you would very likely be surprised by some of the ink that has recently been spilled over its screen adaptation. In a culture corrupted by filth and overflowing with movies whose artistic merit is alternately minimal or non-existent, it is odd that a film and a story as well-crafted and as beautiful as “Narnia?...
This is not to say that Lewis’ work is flawless or that the theology of “Narnia” is particularly persuasive. There are serious problems in confusing the Biblical Jesus with Aslan the lion, and evil in the real world is never personified as clearly as it is in the White Witch and her coterie of demons and beasts. Lewis did not, however, write the “Chronicles” to be a finely tuned theological treatise; he wrote it as a children’s story. If one tries to read...