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PLEASE LEAVE THE THEATER

By | November 2004

NEW COLUMN! And now for something completely different. This is the first of a collection of pieces to hopefully enlighten and inform the cinematically jaded and innately bored. An attempt to bring forth a group of celluloid oddities that not only have a common thread but are also so wildly conceived and contrived that no “Hollywood back pocket” film reviewer would dare touch them…ever…

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PLEASE LEAVE THE THEATER

And now for something completely different. This is the first of a collection of pieces to hopefully enlighten and inform the cinematically jaded and...

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In 1957, the Japanese producer Hiroshi Okawa decided to challenge Walt Disney as a major source of feature-length animated films. At the time, it was a...

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