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...Arab Apocalypse, which is about twenty years old but as timely as ever given recent events. They’re also reading Forrest Hamer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sam Witt, and Claudia Rankine. And I give them weekly hand-outs. This week it’s elegies by Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, and Thom Gunn...
It’s been a long trip since Snow White. Released in 1937, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated feature in color and with sound ever to be produced. The world took notice. The film wowed audiences, succeeded at the box office and garnered an Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field.” That new field—the animated feature?...
...magic of a Miyazaki film lies not just in storytelling complex enough to ensnare adults. Every frame in Spirited Away is packed with visual detail, from the design on a painted vase to a splatter of bird droppings on a boulder. Unlike Walt Disney, Miyazaki is an animator who actually animates. A perfectionist heavily involved throughout the process, he sketches storyboards and checks every key frame. Such intricate scenes demand a staggering number of cels: 100,000 for Spirited Away in an era when studios like Disney rely on computer graphics. With each film he creates a complete and entirely...
...Average rate for a room at the Courtyard by Marriott at Walt Disney World Village in Orlando...
Howie Blitzer is a pie-faced Long Island (L.I.) urchin who quotes L.I. luminary Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also...