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Cats Is the Ultimate Cinematic Test
In 2014, director Steven Soderbergh came up with an acid test for visual storytelling. Soderbergh stripped the film Raiders of the Lost Ark of colour and replaced dialogue with an ambient soundtrack including Trent Reznor; as a result, Soderbergh’s Raiders reveals Steven Spielberg’s masterful utilization of every millimetre of the frame, guiding our eyes through…
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This Video Essay Tries To Explain The Disaster That Is Cats
In the not-so-distant past, Cats was the most fascinating and baffling thing we’d ever seen. Tom Hoopper’s wildly unnecessary and just plain wild adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about cats pining for the sweet embrace of death is a profound, transfixing disaster. It raises a lot of questions. Namely, what? and why?
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In An Unprecedented Move, Universal Is Sending Theatres A Patched Version Of Cats
Cats, Tom Hooper’s memetic hazard of a musical, is receiving unprecedented treatment from its distributors at Universal. As shared by the Hollywood Reporter, the company is sending theatres an updated version of the Ozymandias-like monument to hubris and toxoplasmosis. This new version of the film, according to a memo sent to thousands of theatres across…
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The BBC His Dark Materials Show Just Added An Oscar-Winning Director And A Very Exciting Star
Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, has just signed a deal to direct BBC’s big-budget take on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials fantasy series. It will star Dafne Keen, who played X-23 in Logan.