Tag: Genesis
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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Took Unexpected Inspiration From Shakespeare
When comparing Greta Gerwig’s film “Barbie” to ancient writings, one might find that it bears the strongest resemblance to the Book of Genesis. Barbie and Ken are Adam and Eve, Barbieland is the Garden of Eden, and the Patriarchy is the Forbidden Fruit. Ken also serves as the Serpent in this metaphor. Unlike in Genesis,…
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‘ClayDream’ Review: A Lively Look at Stop-Motion Maestro Will Vinton
The book of Genesis contains two competing creation stories: There’s the one where an all-powerful deity conjures everything in six days, and the version where a more anthropomorphic god rolls up his heavenly sleeves and makes man from clay.Guess which one visionary stop-motion artist Will Vinton would have preferred.Co-inventor of the “Claymation” technique, Vinton wanted…
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‘We Believe In Dinosaurs’ Sheds Light On The Disturbing True Story Of Modern Creationism & Kentucky’s Life-Size Noah’s Ark [Sfiff Review]
Odds are, you don’t have a clue who Ken Ham is. The short answer, as presented in the new documentary, “We Believe in Dinosaurs,” is he’s the founder of creationist group Answers in Genesis, the driving force behind the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter theme parks in rural Kentucky, and someone with questionable taste in…
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‘Wife’ and ‘Widow’ Win Kolkata Festival Prizes
Ash Mayfair’s Vietnamese film “The Third Wife” won best film at the 24th Kolkata international film festival’s international competition on Saturday. Mayfair’s debut feature previously won awards at Toronto, San Sebastian and Chicago. Mayfair was present to collect her award, presented by actress Tabu (“Life of Pi”) and filmmaker Shoojit Sircar.Kolkata’s international competition is known…
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Harvey Keitel to Star in Pavel Lungin’s ‘Esau,’ Modern Retelling of Biblical Story
Harvey Keitel, Lior Ashkenazi (“Foxtrot”) and Mark Ivanir (“Homeland”) will headline “Esau,” the first English-language film from acclaimed Russian-French director Pavel Lungin.“Esau,” which is being adapted from the novel of the same name by Israeli author Meir Shalev, follows a 40-year-old writer who returns to his family home after half a lifetime to face the…
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Berlin Film Review: ‘Genesis’
A surfeit of visual style, however impressive, works against the narrative energy in Hungarian drama “Genesis,” the sophomore feature from Magyar Roma writer-director Árpád Bogdán (“A Happy New Life”). Comprised of three over-stretched, tenuously connected tales about racially motivated violence in contemporary Hungary, the film also suffers from feeling slightly past its sell-by date, since…