Tag Archives: Animation

Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Kenneth George Godwin

People of a certain age will have indelible memories from childhood which, while they might not have known it at the time, they owe to Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday, May 7, at the age of 92. I was too … Continue reading →

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More Recent Viewing

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Kenneth George Godwin

Someone recently posted a comment on one of my reviews for Blogcritics, calling me stupid for not “getting” a movie he’d obviously been obsessing over for a long time. Sometimes, of course, one doesn’t completely understand a movie the first … Continue reading →

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Summer Viewing

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin
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I’m not sure what I should blame it on – the enervating effects of a long hot summer, the stresses of finishing my documentary, financial worries, early onset dementia – but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to drag myself out … Continue reading →

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Recent Viewing

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

I went to see the new Studio Ghibli release a couple of weeks ago. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) is based on the Borrowers books by Mary Norton, mostly written in the ’50s. These stories of little people who … Continue reading →

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DVD diary: September – part two

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

Dark Of The Sun (1968) The great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, responsible for the dazzling imagery of Michael Powell’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), and Albert Lewin’s Pandora and the Flying … Continue reading →

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