uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Donald Gworek) (04/30/85)
Black Cauldren -- The first animated feature filmed in 70 mm. Should be
scary and the equivalent of 'Snow White'. It's taken quite a few years
to get this filmed, and it should be worth the wait.
OZ -- I can't say that I'm looking forward to this one. It is directed
by Walter Murch, a first time director, and Disney has had BIG problems
with first-time directors (TRON, for one). In fact, the studio was very
unhappy with the footage coming back from Britain, and would've canned
Walter Murch if his friends Steven Speilberg, George Lucas, and Francis
Ford Coppola hadn't stood up for him. OZ is also NOT a musical, the 'look'
of the film is GOOD but entirely different, and, frankly, no one really
wants to see ANOTHER version of the Wizard Of Oz, although this film is
REALLY a sequel (Disney owns the rights to all the Frank L Baum 'Oz' books,
except 'The Wizard Of Oz').
Still, these two films, plus the reissue of E.T., should keep the kids
and grandma happy this summer.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Grace Jones in the new James Bond film!
--
Don
-- "Thought can not know itself, because it can not step outside
itself. Nor is it an activity that can be understood by what
it produces (art, science, dreams)."