Author: Bradley Savage
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Moonrise Kingdom. Dir. Wes Anderson. Focus Features. 2012.
Wes Anderson’s 2012 Moonrise Kingdom tells the tale of Suzy and Sam as they run away together. Our two young characters are pursued by Suzy’s family and Sam’s scout troop.
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The Cat From Outer Space. Dir. Norman Tokar. Buena Vista Distribution. 1978.
As we see a feline descend from the tongue-like walkway of a cat-shaped spaceship, Disney’s 1978 film The Cat From Outer Space opens, invoking a science-fiction both familiar and alien. It is difficult to not subscribe to the film’s endearing nature of a developed animal companionship as a bond forms between human and cat that goes beyond…
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Ring of Bright Water. Dir. Jack Couffer. Cinerama Releasing Corp. 1969.
“He was boneless, mercurial, sinuous, wonderful… he was an otter in his own element and the most beautiful thing in nature I had ever seen.” [1] The 1960s seems littered with autobiographical accounts of human and animal relations which are, as a result of the popularity of the novel, projected upon the platform of film.…