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Wait, There’s a SOUTH America Now?

I had previously mentioned that I thought Dumbo was the shortest Disney animated feature, but technically that’s not true. The shortest is actually Saludos Amigos, a collection of four short cartoons interspersed with footage of Disney employees in South America. … Continue reading →

Posted in Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aconcagua, andes mountains, aquarela do brasil, brazil, censorship, donald duck, el gaucho goofy, goofy, jose carioca, lake titicaca, llama, moxy früvous, pedro, saludos amigos, terry gilliam |

Tonight There Is No Black or White

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, by Jasper Fforde – In some ways, the story resembles others about futuristic bureaucratic nightmare societies. It kind of reminded me of the movie Brazil, what with the plot involving the main … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Jasper Fforde, Oz | Tagged 1984, anansi boys, brazil, chromatacia, dorothy gale, frank oz, george orwell, glinda, l. frank baum, muppets, neil gaiman, oz memorial, shades of grey: the road to high saffron |

A Visit to the Imaginarium

While I can’t say I fully understood it, I did enjoy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It had a good story, but I think the main appeal might have been that it was a recent fantasy film that DIDN’T concentrate … Continue reading →

Posted in VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged brazil, fear and loathing in las vegas, heath ledger, hunter s. thompson, lily cole, monty python, terry gilliam, the adventures of baron munchausen, the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, time bandtis, tom waits |