There are many Revisionist Westerns and there are many Revisionist chanbara, but there are very few, if any, Revisionist wuxia. While Western and Japanese filmmakers have freely interrogated their national heroic ideals of the cowboy and the samurai, grappling with…
15 Years Later, Finding Nemo Is Still Pixar’s Best Story
Finding Nemo opened in theaters on May 30, 2003, and to this day, it remains Pixar’s most financially successful film ever when adjusted for inflation. The reasons for this are numerous. Finding Nemo happens to be one of Pixar’s more…
The Film Canon: Rashomon (1950)
This film was like s stage production. One act, followed by act two, all wrapped up in the climatic third and final act. It reminded of a modern film Closer, which was in fact a movie deriving by a play.…