Word: realisms
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...things I have always taken issue with in Southern literature is that it is almost all rooted in social realism," says Kenan. "I grew up around people who took the Bible literally, and still do." So in college, when Kenan first read such South American authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he abandoned his plans to be a physicist and turned to writing. "When I encountered writers who wrote about spirits like they would changing a carburetor, I realized you can come at this form from an entirely different vantage point...
...features for two decades; typically, he dabbles in tantalizing subjects (the immigrant experience in An American Tail, the historical romance in Anastasia) without freshening them. But Bluth's best film, The Land Before Time, was set in the distant past, where he was freed from his tendency for painterly realism. Here he and co-director Gary Goldman use 3-D computer technology, and some very talented designers, to dream up a world--a galaxy--of marvelous sights, spaceships, planets, vistas and critters. And when it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush. It's the video...
...surprising, 1900 being 1900, to see everywhere the imprint of the decorative style we call Art Nouveau, co-existing with the stern realism of Madrid, Munich and Thomas Eakins' Philadelphia. Its sources in great figures like Gauguin are not skimped; it's there in Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt and in a host of lesser figures across the world, including Australia--Sydney Long's Pan, 1898, with its fauns and sweetly sexless hippies cavorting discreetly by the evening billabong, takes great formal advantage of the serpentine shapes of native gum trees...
Which is why we will be celebrating Jefferson at the next Library of Congress centenary too. He so embodies America in all its sprawling contradictory greatness: the Wilsonian idealist prepared to engage in ruthless Rooseveltian realism; the worshipper of system, order and science who is given to romance--with France, with revolution, with the American West; the practical inventor and tinkerer, yet endowed with the capacity to compose the most lyrical, most transcendent assertion of human liberty ever penned...
...sort of Dino-Moses who saves the day with canny primate-know-how. Although there are voice-overs for the animals in the movie, it is not a musical comedy, and the dinosaurs do not break into song. The amazingly thrilling drama is only enhanced by the astonishing realism of the animals. Dinosaur makes the animation in Jurassic Park seem like claymation. If only seen for the computer effects, Dinosaur is a definite breakthrough in the field of animation...