Author: Joseph Nixon
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007.
Brad Bird’s 2007 computer-animated film Ratatouille uses its mode as animation to establish an alternate logic to the real world, enabling communication between humans and animals. The turning point that establishes this communication is when Linguini captures Remy in a jar. After asking a series of aggressive questions, Linguini calms down, and begins to take a more…
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IRIS. Dir. Albert Maysles. Magnolia Pictures. 2014.
There are few people who wouldn’t be intrigued by Iris Apfel. The nonagenarian fashion icon with statement eyewear, accessories hanging like Christmas decorations, and a unique outlook on life. It is no wonder then why legendary documentarian Albert Maylses focuses on her as subject of his penultimate documentary film, IRIS (2014). Plunging us deep into her creative…
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IRIS. Dir. Albert Maysles. Magnolia Pictures. 2014.
Albert Maysles’ 2015 documentary film IRIS provides a portrait of the nonagenarian fashion icon, Iris Apfel. Filming inside Iris’s apartment, Maysles presents us with many images of animal representations. The animals are artificial reproductions of the ‘real’ thing. They are aesthteic objects concerned only with style; carriers of pleasure rather than carriers of meaning. Taking Whitney Rugg’s…