There’s been a lot of chatter over the last month about Disney chief Bob Iger’s ruthless housecleaning over at Disney. Big executive shakeups like Iger’s seem more unusual in Hollywood than perhaps in many other businesses because Hollywood for the most part is a business of predictability, stability and sameness. Ironic, given that they are [...]
I recognize how controversial the very idea may seem to book purists. And honestly, I myself dread the thought of reading Don Quixote on my iPhone with a link to a dramatization of the titular literary legend. Whose vision of the oft and uniquely conjured hero do we engage? My first thought as a dedicated [...]
This is an amateur movie made by a member of the The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. Strange, you may think, as it seemed to me when I first watched this one of several films created by members of this Society as a way to analyze their dreams.
Initially, The Lion Dream struck me as [...]
As with most people who attended the enormously exciting Futures of Entertainment 4, I found there was a massive amount of information to unpack both during and after the conference. Perhaps because my perspective is that of a creator/artist who is navigating the rapidly shifting rules of storytelling in an era of transmedia, the questions [...]
