{"id":7930,"date":"2009-01-16T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2009-01-16T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:20:22","slug":"the-jewish-journal-blogs-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7930","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Journal Blogs Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/hollywoodjew\">Larry Mark writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Sundance Film Festival 2009 opened on Thursday night with an Australian clay animation feature, &ldquo;Mary and Max,&rdquo; written and directed by Adam Elliot, a Sundance veteran and Oscar winner for best animated short in 2004.&nbsp; &ldquo;Mary and Max&rdquo; features the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Toni Collette and Barry Humphries (a.k.a Dame Edna) as the narrator.&nbsp; Think of it as an Australian &ldquo;Wallace and Gromit&rdquo; meets &ldquo;About Schmidt,&rdquo; but one painted in dark tones of brown, gray and black.&nbsp; The movie deals with the serious issues of mental illness, death, and depression; it is neither a &ldquo;Nemo&rdquo; nor a &ldquo;Shrek,&rdquo; since it is mostly a tragedy sprinkled with bits of comedy.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that an animated feature has opened Sundance.&nbsp; And with the critical success of the Israeli film &ldquo;Waltz with Bashir,&rdquo; perhaps we are at the beginning of a cinematic trend in darker-themed animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Mark writes: The Sundance Film Festival 2009 opened on Thursday night with an Australian clay animation feature, &ldquo;Mary and Max,&rdquo; written and directed by Adam Elliot, a Sundance veteran and Oscar winner for best animated short in 2004.&nbsp; &ldquo;Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7930\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[15540,15543,11915,11175,15542,15541],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-jewish-journal","tag-barry-humphries","tag-eric-bana","tag-philip-seymour-hoffman","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-toni-collette","tag-wallace-and-gromit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}