The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Persistence of Disney, Part 14: Peter Pan (1953)
If James Barrie hadn’t invented Peter Pan then his adventures might just as well have come from the mind of Walt Disney. The story of...
Tower (2016)
The times are sadly appropriate for a documentary like Tower. At a moment in our history when rampant shootings in Orlando Florida, Aurora Colorado and...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 13: Alice in Wonderland (1951)
One constant in the story of Walt Disney seems to have been an ever-persistent passion for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” That is reasonable because,...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 12: Cinderella (1950)
After nearly a decade of sidelining his artistic yearnings in favor of World War II and frustrating limits of his budget, Walt Disney celebrated the...
The Cave of Wonders Podcast Episode 1: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Episode one of our Disney podcast looks into the tao of Disney and what it means to us and to our culture. Then, a discussion...
Viva (2015)
There is a frail tenderness in Jesus’ eyes that broke my heart. All through the Cuban drama Viva, I beheld those eyes with a sense...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 11: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
From 1942 until 1949, Walt Disney’s animated output came in bits and pieces. That is, his features came in collections called “package films,” which were...
