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Review: Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)

Luca is a love letter to Italy – and it is written beautifully. In May 2016, I was on a train from La Spezia to Manarola, Italy, one of the five villages of Cinque Terre. Manarola had been on my bucket list since I saw the photo of this place, with its picture-postcard perfection, as a background on the Windows log-in screen. I remember when I got off the train and saw Manarola before me for the very first time, becoming teary at its beauty, as well as being overcome by fulfilling a long-held wish to see it for myself.

FILM REVIEWAnna ZsuboriJune 25, 2021PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS, COMPUTER-ANIMATED FILM, REALISM, PRODUCTION DESIGNComment

Crystalline Vision: Jim Henson, The Dark Crystal and Authorship

In around 1957, Jim Henson travelled through Europe, as Michael Davis describes in his book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and “took in puppet performances throughout Europe…impressed at how appreciated the art form was outside the United States” (2008: 83). It was this commitment to the form of puppetry and its capacity for emotional expression and innovation of technology and technique that finds such full realization in The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, 1982) as a vividly authored high fantasy film.

EDITORIALJames ClarkeAugust 30, 2019PUPPETRY, TELEVISION, HIGH FANTASY, PRODUCTION DESIGNComment