Paul Jaussen

“At Least They’ve Got Stars on Them”: Fantasy, Cinema, and Wes Anderson

Two short films cast a long shadow over the history of cinema. The first is the famous 1895 Lumière Brothers’ “L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat,” a mere fifty seconds of documentary footage. Through a static, single shot, we watch a train approaching from a distance, chugging from the center-right of the frame […]

J. Paul Fridenmaker, Jeffrey Overstreet

Painting Auralia’s Colors: An Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet

In this interview, Jeffrey Overstreet discusses his novel “Auralia’s Colors” and examines the way in which artists are compelled to “look closer” at the world, to “discover and reaffirm why things were put that way in the first place.”

Sheree Goertzen

Real Fantasy in Pan’s Labyrinth

Review: Pan’s Labyrinth. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Warner Brothers, 2006. 120 minutes. Superman: comic made movie. The staples of any superhero movie include: (obviously) a super hero, an ever-present evil force, and enough drama to carry through for at least a sequel, and preferably a Number 3. Such trilogies build expectation for the “final battle […]