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The Sword in the Stone 1963
This is probably my least revisited Disney animated film, so I have the biased impression that it's one of the least culturally resilient. Even though its characters are some of the best known (King Arthur! Merlin the Magician!), I rarely hear this movie referenced. And considering it came between One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Jungle Book, it strikes me as particularly odd how little anyone seems to remember of it.
Some first impressions: the layout design takes me…
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The Cube 1969
Another fascinating detour in Jim Henson's trajectory from experimental animations to commercial entertainment mainstays. Inserting his comic performativity into TV theatre, it becomes at once impossible to imagine anything as experimental to happen in the format today, and altogether quite easy seeing it take the form of a Netflix special or something of the like. That it's done so nonchalantly is part of its brilliance.
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Heaven Knows What 2014
No, the film does not romanticize drug use, but the film is romantic. Even when it's all screams and slamming on doors and fights on the street and carnal love made outside corner stores, the film adopts a darkly fond view of Arielle's life. The film moves at an appropriate pace, camera swinging back and forth in fights between addicts and lovers, yet just as well the camera lingers, leaving you to meditate on its complex love. Some of the…