The shitty Christmas novel is a grand tradition most popular authors fall prey to eventually. Richard Evans has made a cottage industry out of sappy tales of holiday cheer, while no less than Glenn Beck has also contributed a big ball of goo to the genre, with a book apparently about a magical sweater or something. Gregory Maguire doesn’t wholly escape the pitfalls of the holiday novel with Matchless, a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” but he comes closer than most. Maguire originally wrote the short story to be performed on NPR on Christmas ...
- 11/19/2009
- avclub.com
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Hungary! If Terry Gilliam woke up one day in Eastern Europe, horny, hungry, and obsessed with death... only to find the half-consumed bodies of David Cronenberg and Jean-Pierre Jeunet sprawled across his floor, morsels of both men's brains still stuck in his teeth... Taxidermia is the ninety-minute exploration of life, beauty, immortality, and bodily fluids he might rush to film before being arrested by the authorities. What does that mean exactly? I have no fucking clue. Taxidermia follows three generations of males in one very messed up Hungarian family. Vendel is a hare-lipped and sex-starved soldier in World War II who lives and works on his Lieutenant's farm. He's treated like crap by his superior, and...
- 9/3/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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