What a profoundly weird movie. It was Disney’s follow-up to “Sleeping Beauty” and represented a completely new direction for the studio, one that would dominate their output for the next two decades. Until now, all of Disney’s live action movies had been chiefly European productions, period films that stuck to the adventure and fantasy genres. […]
What a lovely, lovely film. I had the vaguest of memories of this one. We had a VHS copy when I was young, but it was never one of the Disney movies I was very interested in, because it looked too girly. This apparently affected it at the box office as well, to the point […]
This movie, which consists of eight episodes of Disney’s “Zorro” TV show edited together, covers the same narrative territory as the far superior “The Mark of Zorro” (1940): Don Diego returns home to California after a year in Spain to discover that his town has been taken over by corruption. He sets out to reclaim […]
This was one of my childhood favorites, and watching it as an adult it’s easy to see why. Few of Disney’s efforts matched this one in terms of creating a feel of epic adventure and grand scale. This is the first film Disney filmed in Panavision, and the wide-screen presentation is the perfect choice to […]
In this series-depending on how long it lasts, for life, writing, and so many other things, are quite fleeting-I hope to look at a few classic films, give my take on them, perhaps even say something new that will have significance for today, and, failing that, try like the devil to be entertainingly provocative. I […]
via Tales From The Silver Screen: Part 2 Black and White 1949 — Carrot Ranch Literary Community
When his son hit his final year at university, he felt a fundamental shift. After working hard for so many years to give his only child a good life, Jamie Bartlett decided the time had come to focus on himself. Having spent the past 13 years playing David Genaro in Rhythm City, he wanted to […]
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Fair warning: if you want to write a novel, you’ll have to commit serious time. A year or two may be the minimum, unless you’re Stephen King, who apparently writes a book every other month and fills his down time with screenplays, for God sakes. If you finish your manuscript (it’s a book after it’s […]
by Novelty Revisions Every once in a while, you’ll write something you wish you could erase. And hey, with just a few frustrated pinky jabs into your delete key, that wish is easily self-granted if it’s just you and your word processor. If you’ve written something terrible and posted to social media, I […]
by ARHuelsenbeck I am blessed to have my own writing room. It’s my daughters’ former bedroom, outfitted with a desk, a dresser, two overfilled bookcases, two stuffed file cabinets, 3 stacks of TBR books, and 12 banker’s boxes of miscellany I need to find places for. I can generally be found there […]
by ARHuelsenbeck I am blessed to have my own writing room. It’s my daughters’ former bedroom, outfitted with a desk, a dresser, two overfilled bookcases, two stuffed file cabinets, 3 stacks of TBR books, and 12 banker’s boxes of miscellany I need to find places for. I can generally be found there […]
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