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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Moolaade, Interview, and much more.
- What We're Watching: Futurama, Oswald the Rabbit, and Red Without Blue.
- Explore: James McAvoy, GC Daily's lists n' awards.
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"This great work of art has the potential to change the world," wrote Lisa Schwarzbaum in EW, of this "masterwork by Ousmane Sembene, the 81-year-old father of African cinema and one of Senegal's greatest novelists" (Jonathan Rosenbaum). "To skip Moolaade would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest." (NY Times) |
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"I’ve sat through so many claustrophobic examples of the genre I forgot how exhilarating, how pure a great one could be," wrote New York Magazine's David Edelstein. " Interview is a great one--electric as theater and cinema." A remake of a Dutch film by the late Theo Von Gogh, the two-character story gives us Steve Buscemi as a cynical journalist stuck interviewing a star (Sienna Miller), and finding more than he bargained for. "Queasily compelling," wrote The AV Club's Nathan Rabin. More here >> |
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The show that Simpsons creator Matt Groening followed that huge hit with, Futurama didn't have the same ratings success but developed a large and loyal cult following, only to become yet another high quality comedy that Fox shifted around confusingly for four seasons, including in the too early time slot of 7pm Sunday, showing less patience than it did with the Simpsons, only to, as with Family Guy (which I'm much less of a fan of, but it certainly has a huge following), realize they blew it and brought a cult favorite back. Bender's Big Score is the first of what will be several new feature-length Futurama episodes... Good news everyone: It has roughly the same amount of laughs as you'd find if you watched three solid episodes of the show back to back... Read full review here >> |
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The history behind this new release - which really is a treasure - is as fascinating as watching the old cartoons themselves. Paul Mavis wrote extensively on DVD Talk about this in his essay/review on the two-DVD set, and "despite being warned by Leonard Maltin at the beginning of the disc that these are relatively primitive cartoons, I found the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts included here really quite funny. The very nature of these early efforts, that primitive, almost crude (in execution) design and animation proves to be one of the most appealing elements of the series." Both Mickey and Bugs owe something to these 'toons. A must for animation history buffs. |
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The mystery of family has received some major exploration over the past few years, particularly in the documentary category: Capturing the Friedmans and 51 Birch Street are two that spring immediately to mind. To these, and others, must now be added Red Without Blue, the fascinating, low-key, painful, sad, funny and majestic true-life movie by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills. All three are credited with writing, producing and directing; Brooke and Benita handled the editing and Brooke and Todd the cinematography. Talk about a collaborative venture. However it happened, the end result is rich and nearly seamless in its examination of twin brothers. Read Full Review >>
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Now playing on GreenCine Daily, our award-winning blog: 'tis the season for year end lists and awards, and they've already begun en masse. From all over the world, and too many to name. So go here for our running compendium. (And coming in a few weeks, GreenCine comes up with a few Best Of lists of our own!) |
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Gotta Sing!
Gotta Dance!
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