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Animated Cinematic Innovation Celebrated in the French Alps ~by Larry Ruppel

April 30, 2022 By John Lobell 3 Comments

The annual gathering of arguably the most prestigious international animation event in the world is nigh upon us in the lakeside village of Annecy, France. For those in the animation filmmaking community, this annual festival held every mid-June is an exciting and extensive mix of competitive and programmed film screenings, talks on the latest animation […]

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A Guide to the Best Animated Film Festival in France

June 9, 2016 By John Lobell 7 Comments

  (That You May Never Have Heard Of!) Note: Posted by Lobell, written by Larry Ruppel There is a film festival held each year in a storybook-like village that is best described as one of the most magical experiences that can be had for aficionados of animated films. I am referring to the Annecy International Animated […]

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Visionary Creativity: New book by John Lobell

October 25, 2015 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Visionary Creativity: How New Worlds are Born, is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle, and on Barnes & Noble. From the back of the book: These are times of turmoil. But times of turmoil can also be times of creativity as we become aware of new possibilities in our arts, sciences, and industries, and of […]

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El Topo: From Cult to Classic

March 12, 2014 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

A movie review revisited by Griselda Steiner of a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky With Frank Pavich’s movie, Jodorowsky’s Dune, about to open at Film Forum in New York, and the article in the New York Times Magazine of March 14 titled “The Psychomagical Realism of Alejandro Jodorowsky” discussing Jodorowsky’s first new film in 23 years, […]

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Riddick: The Animal Side

September 21, 2013 By John Lobell 2 Comments

a movie review by John Lobell Somewhere along the way I lost a step, got sloppy… dulled my own edge. Maybe I went and did the worst crime of all: I got civilized. So now we zero the clock. Gotta find that animal side again… I am a big fan of the Riddick series—Chronicles of […]

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The Evolving American Myth, Part 2: Clint Eastwood

November 16, 2012 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

In my discussion of The Chronicles of Riddick on this site (which I have retitled The Evolving American Myth, Part 1: The Chronicles of Riddick), I refer to the story of Percival, one of the Arthurian Romances, and to the vision of an inner moral sense in each individual. I trace this inner moral sense […]

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Babette’s Feast: revisited

October 26, 2012 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

by John Lobell As we await Cloud Atlas, let’s look at a more modest spiritual movie from the past, Babette’s Feast, a 1987 Danish movie directed by Gabriel Axel, staring Stéphane Audran as Babette, and based on a story by Isak Dinesen.   Babette’s Feast looks at the dual nature of out existence. In the […]

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Midnight in Paris

September 22, 2012 By John Lobell 2 Comments

by John Lobell Have you noticed that quite a few recent movies use non-linear layered time? In 50 First Dates, a man romantically pursues a woman who has suffered a brain injury affecting her long-term memory. Each night she loses all of the memories of the day, and wakes up the next morning thinking it […]

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Groundhog Day, revisited

September 4, 2012 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Groundhog Day is one of those movies that I will watch any time I come across it on TV. I have been thinking about why. Groundhog Day is a 1993 romantic comedy directed by Harold Ramis and staring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It was well received on release, but as is often the case […]

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The Evolving American Myth, Part 1: The Chronicles of Riddick

August 4, 2012 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

by John Lobell   The Chronicles of Riddick, directed in 2004 by David Twohy and staring Vin Diesel, has always been a favorite of mine. It had a poor critical reception and its gross did not make back its production, marketing, and distribution costs. However it has since seen success on DVD and television broadcasts. […]

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More thoughts on Prometheus

July 26, 2012 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

by John Lobell An expedition goes to a remote planet where there was an outpost of beings from another world called the Engineers. The members of the expedition piece together that the Engineers had created life on earth, and that those on this outpost had created a vicious bio-weapon (the aliens of the Alien movies) […]

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On The Hunger Games

April 22, 2012 By John Lobell 2 Comments

The Hunger Games Reviewed by John Lobell First, this is a discussion of the movie; I have not read the books. Second, I am going to exercise some laziness and, for those not familiar with the story line, quote from Wikipedia to get us up to speed: “The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic […]

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Source Code

April 8, 2011 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Source Code: A Movie Review by John Lobell [Spoiler alert] In my comment posted after Ebert’s review on this site of Inception, I wrote: “Notice that we have been getting a lot of movies with a non-linear, layered time, and notice that (most) audiences are totally comfortable with these movies.” I then went on to […]

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On Tron: Legacy

December 30, 2010 By John Lobell 2 Comments

Tron: Legacy a Movie Review by John Lobell It is bad enough that movies have become so formulaic, but when they are, they could at least follow the rules of the formula. In Tron: Legacy, we have: – Search for and reconciliation with the father – Travel to the underworld for the completion of the […]

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On Black Swan

December 21, 2010 By John Lobell 3 Comments

Black Swan: A Movie Review by John Lobell A female ballet dancer in a New York Lincoln Center company has for too long been passed over, but now she has been chosen for a role in a reworked Swan Lake which will require her to dance both the role of the pure White Swan, and […]

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