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Waking Life (2001)
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Waking Life
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"Despite my reverence for this film, there isn't much I can say about it. It is one of those films that I find difficult to describe to people who haven't seen it before. I recommend it, but I don't know if I can say anything else about it other than I think it is ineffable to a degree. It's a film about philosophy, but it's not a documentary. It's a film about a journey, but it's not exactly a cohesive story. It's animated, but it's rotoscoped so there's life action under the sketches and inking. It is a film that truly feels like a dream. You enter into it completely lost in what, if anything, is going on. It jumps around, but not so much that you lose the little footing you have. The main character sort of floats through different scenes and we, as an audience, go along with it. There's not necessarily a rhyme or reason to the plot movement, but it doesn't have to be...because it's a dream. Stuff will occur and things will be said that you'll barely remember (not unlike a real dr ... "
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Sundance Stories of Yore: Slacker
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"Each day this week, Christopher Campbell will take a look back at a “classic” film that played the Sundance Film Festival. Today’s installment: Richard Linklater’s Slacker (1991). Richard Linklater’s breakthrough film, Slacker, almost never played Sundance. According to John Pierson’s book Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes, Competition Director Alberto Garcia “did not particularly like the film.” In fact, Linklater was initially rejected when he submitted Slacker for the 1990 festival, at the time still called the US Film Festival. So, that summer, he self-released the film in his hometown of Austin, Texas, with much success. But the biggest success was yet to come. That same year the film was selected for at least one other film fest, Seattle, and after being reviewed there by Film Comment’s Robert Horton, Slacker acquired the interests of both Orion Classics and Pierson, who had already earned his reputation for being an indie film guru. However, even with a distributor and a high p ... "
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Prometheus' Garden - Review
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"Putting into words the happenings of Prometheus' Garden is as laborious as the stop-motion claymation must have been for animator Bruce Bickford. A nihilistic interpretation of the evolution of humanity throughout the ages; a mélange of prurient thoughts and perverse fantasies involving bosomy blonde nymphs and phallus wielding virile gladiators; a horrific exploration of mans animalistic urges for grisly torture and evisceration; the inherent loneliness of life on Earth and the struggle to construct and manipulate our surroundings to assuage our fears of it all: all of this only begins to deconstruct the chaos viewed over the course of the films twenty eight minutes. Tracing the course of human history across the globe, the constantly metamorphosing landscape of the earth is matched only by that of humanity and their transformation from peaceful inhabitants of lush locales to warring, bloodthirsty warriors bent on total destruction. Prometheus' Garden is an incredible work ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Animation
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"The animation top ten was the first list and it got the evening off to a shaky start. The problems with this list run much deeper than its rather uninspired roster of, almost exclusively, Disney “classics”. Most fundamentally, animation is not a genre; it's a medium. However, it is also the case that in Hollywood, animation verges on being a genre, but the American animation genre of the 20th century is not the same as the genre in the 21st century except insofar as animation is treated as a medium for children's, or “family”, films. In the 20th century, as ably shown by the list, animation was more or less the new medium for musicals. In this millenium, music remains an important part of animated films, but they are less often actual musicals. They are, however, characterized by hyperreal computer animation and dialogue rich with “clever” asides and pop culture references. Does that make a genre? Maybe, but not one that has much in common with t ... "
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"There was a stretch a couple years ago when I was a bit more interested in exploring the world of short films. I had rented several DVDs in the series simply called "Short" released around 2000, primarily because it was the only DVD I knew of that had La Jetée on it. Anyways I find that short films can rarely achieve the kind of lasting effect that is usually more possible for feature length films. However it is a different art form in a ways, and has it's own separate challenges and benefits that I'm interested in exploring.Spout sent me a collection called Shorts! Volume 1. The result was pretty much what I expected. A fair mix of the good and the bad. Maybe a bit better than what I expected now that I think about it. I think the main problem most short films make is trying to tell a story in anywhere near the same way a feature film would. You can't expect to achieve meaning in a short film with the s "
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not what i expected
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"This movie bored the hell out of me. yeah it was good for about the first two people he meets, but after that it just seems like your sitting at a lecture waiting for it to end. The plot really does not progress too well throughout the film. Although the visual is unique i would not recommend this film to someone who wants to be entertained. "
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Eye Candy, not much else
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"Slightly less headache inducing than 'Waking Life' thanks to improvements in the computer aided rotoscoping techniques, and really beautiful to look at. But the story and direction seem to have taken back seat to the images, and the movie suffers for it. After a wonderful opening sequence with a strung out addict desperately trying to rid himself of multitudes of imaginary insects that are crawling over himself, the movie quickly comes to a screeching halt with the introduction of the Keanu Reeves character and his 'camoflage suit' (one of those things that probably work really well on the page, but when you try to visualize it... ug..... - a more annoying visual I have yet to experience), but the suit is a major plot point, so you are forced to endure it on him and others throughout most of the movie.Robert Downey Jr, Rory Cochrane and Woody Harrelson enliven all the scenes in which they appear, but being only marginal characters they can't save this confusing ... "
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