Open captions challenge my preference for ambiguity in art.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Open Interpretations
If diehard moviegoers — yes, we still exist — don’t check in advance, they’re liable to find themselves in an open-captions screening.
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Menken It
Disney is not Disney today without Alan Menken.
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A Tale of Technology
Hollywood’s relationship to using CGI has changed over the course of my moviegoing lifetime.
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How Do You Measure Influence?
When Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? (yay!) hit Disney+ (nay!), I theorized that no one has indoctrinated more generations to the Church of Show-Tunes than the titular Adele Dazeem.
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Escalator to Heaven
Write All Nite isn’t in the breaking-news business.
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Bannerland
What’s up with Ireland at the Academy Awards this season?
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The Killing of My Dear Sanity
Further proof that my brain’s broke:
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Zo-om
Cinema documents eras.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Writing about art is a quest to objectify the subjective.
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