Magic & Make Believe

Welcome to the world as seen through the eyes of visual artists, editing wizards, visionary composers, neurotic actors and literary geniuses; all striving to create an alternate universe for the audience in front of their screen.

Friday, June 15, 2012

The depths of the unknown: PROMETHEUS

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Note: I was going to talk about George Steven's Swing Time this week, but after watching it for the first time, realized that Top Hat ...

Friday, June 8, 2012

I am not an animal: THE ELEPHANT MAN

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"I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!" -John Hurt as John Merrick David Lynch's Th...

Thursday, May 31, 2012

the crushing defeat of adulthood: MOONRISE KINGDOM

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"I love you ba-aby, but you gotta understand. When the lord made me. He made me a ramblin' man." Hank Williams The y...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Whimsy and Wonder: Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS

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The Studio System embraced sound in 1929. Chaplin, among many other filmmakers, was a reluctant convert to the new technology and believed t...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Wasteland: HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

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Hayao Miyzaki's film Howl's Moving Castle (2004), based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones, creates a fantastical w...

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Jenny: Hi, I'm Jenny. I'm all in for sweaty yoga sessions, deep breaths, radical joy, connection in all its forms, savoring the everyday, baking in the kitchen, and sending someone a good old fashion letter, big smiles, deep belly laughs, surrendering into child's pose, settling in for a long movie, and finding space in the most unlikely of places. I'm into self discovery, how about you?

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