Poor Goro. Could there be anything more thankless than taking over a project tailor-made for your genius father, a master of animation renowned for his grace and deep humanity, and attempt to match his best work? When it was announced that Goro Miyazaki, son of anime legend Hayao, was directing the adaptation of Ursula K. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fathers’
Pusher 3
Copenhagen is a tough place for drug lords, heroin addicts, and fathers–and Milo (Zlatko Buric) happens to be all three. Set over the course of one particular rough day in Milo’s life, the final installment of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy walks a thin line between character study and hard-hitting underworld expose. When we first [...]
AlternaTube
“America’s Greatest Living Writer” Neal Pollack is on the road promoting his hipster parenting memoir Alternadad. I caught Neal last week at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction; here’s the entire reading–poo, vaporizers, bhotman and all–cut into four bite-size chunks for your enjoyment.
[youtube]TlU5mUV-XsQ[/youtube]Part 1: Prologue and Amsterdam
[youtube]mLHKuk8xNwc[/youtube]Part 2: Blog Posts
[youtube]FJZYRvx87Fo[/youtube]Part 3: Q&A
[youtube]EZinsAzYwNE[/youtube]Part 4: The Silver [...]
Eraserhead
The outrageous imagery of David Lynch works in mysterious ways, seeping into your dreams and gestating in your subconscious. Eraserhead presents me with a particular riddle: I was convinced I’d never seen the movie, yet felt instantly familiar with it. Did Lynch’s subsequent work fill in the blanks as if through osmosis, or–more likely–had I [...]
