"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Between the Chinese and the Arab Dance, both the Nutcracker Suite and Fantasia place another dance, the Dance of the Flutes or Dance of the Reed Flutes. Let us go back to them, though, and then all we're missing is the Russian Dance and the...
I hope you guys are not expecting to have a story each hour for the whole night, because that's not going to happen. Still, the Arab Dance dance was one of my favourite pieces when I was a child, I was a bit of an orientalist,...
Edit: for some reason, this article became quite popular. The comment section is closed, but you should read this: it's a comment from a Chinese-American reader, drawing the attention to the cultural controversy surrounding this particular piece, which is still staged in a very harmful way. An...
In few days time, for our Sunday story, I will publish something about Disney's Fantasia and, in particular, something around The Pastoral Symphony, originally intended to be a more obscure mash-up between a French ballet and a Russian opera. It is only fair, however, that...
Aladdin is not my favorite cartoon, but it ranks pretty high. So, naturally, the whole action movie thing made me pretty nervous, especially after Beauty and the Beast proved to be such a useless disappointment. Let me be clear, I'm usually not one to whine when...
They're back this month, and it's the magic lamp story (Woo-oo!). [embed]https://youtu.be/PtT4QHHt5N8[/embed]...
I kind of liked Wreck it Ralph. Though I'm too young to have enjoyed the arcade lifestyle, I'm nerd enough to enjoy its many references and the general concept of a network of games that are extremely limited in their core and, by comparison, the inner...
a.k.a. when you name your heroine after a porn star you're looking for trouble I like cartoons and I'm not ashamed of saying it. At the risk of shocking you, I was a kid too. And, even more shocking, I actually was a girl. Yeah. I...
Starting January 1st, a new 4-year contract between Disney and Netflix will come into effect. After spreading news that Walt would launch his own version of the popular network, Disney and Netflix have agreed over few billion dollars and a plan for 2016 has been...
Ok. Come sapete, e come ho recentemente ripetuto parlando di Paranorman, non sono una grande estimatrice delle tecniche di animazione digitale. Tutt'altro. Per questo, tendo ad evitare film realizzati con questa tecnica e per questo ho a lungo evitato anche The Brave, su cui sono...
