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When Farmer haggles with the studio heavy to buy the rights to his film, and convinces his wife to star in it and change her image to that of a sex goddess, the film is at its best. Edwards' attacks on the twisted values of Hollywood come like a whirlwind...
"We who work on children's books inhabit a sort of literary shtetl," says Sendak. "When I won a prize for Wild Things, my father spoke for a great many critics when he asked whether I would now be allowed to work on 'real' books." It is...
Mary Poppins, made in the early '60s, provides a good index for figuring changes, cinematic and societal.
Hollywood, back then, worried less about "realism," perhaps realizing that to the unjaded, fantasy is just as "real" as car chases and gunship battles. As the opening credits roll, Mary Poppins sits on a cloud overlooking smoky London. Minutes later, a huge gust of wind blows away a host of...
Some of us have sat through Mary Poppins more times than we care to remember, but the stunning animation never loses its novelty. The refreshing impish innocence of child actors Katie Dotrice and Matthew Garber reinvigorates the cynical and skeptical. Richard and Robert Sherman's score cuts across musical tastes...