(Welcome to Animation Celebration, a recurring feature where we explore the limitless possibilities of animation as a medium. In this edition: "The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.")
Adult Swim has always felt like a safe haven for the weirdos of the world, a network willing to let absurdist geniuses like Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim run wild and subvert classic cartoons for a new generation no matter how bizarre things would turn out. Plenty of shows have come and gone since the channel's launch in 2001, but for the last 20 years, there has remained a constant presence that captures the heart of what makes Adult Swim such a vital network for creativity — "The Venture Bros." Created By Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick (Eric Hammer and Christopher McCulloch), "The Venture Bros." started out as a satire on the boy adventurer and Space Age adventure cartoons prevalent in...
Adult Swim has always felt like a safe haven for the weirdos of the world, a network willing to let absurdist geniuses like Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim run wild and subvert classic cartoons for a new generation no matter how bizarre things would turn out. Plenty of shows have come and gone since the channel's launch in 2001, but for the last 20 years, there has remained a constant presence that captures the heart of what makes Adult Swim such a vital network for creativity — "The Venture Bros." Created By Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick (Eric Hammer and Christopher McCulloch), "The Venture Bros." started out as a satire on the boy adventurer and Space Age adventure cartoons prevalent in...
- 8/2/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
The Fiction
Directed by Danny Dileo
Written by Danny Dileo
USA, 2010
Rookie filmmaker Danny Dileo’s breakout film, The Fiction, provides a triple delight, one part Alfred Hitchcock, one part Stephen King, and one part Rod Serling. In this ambitious effort as writer, producer, and director, Dileo breaks both rules and boundaries, delivering an entertaining and lingering cinematic experience. Screenwriters are preached, often to the point of exhaustion to “write what they know, refrain from having people talk to themselves, and avoid dream sequences.” Dileo breaks the rules with a twist-laden, thought-provoking plot line.
Lead character Werther Oaks’s (Eric Hammer) writer’s block echoes The Shining, with slippages into Being John Malkovich surrealism, while intellectually yanking us back with a plot thread akin to Secret Window. At times, this film’s dialogue came across as overly expository, but overall was sparse enough to let the story flow. The story...
Directed by Danny Dileo
Written by Danny Dileo
USA, 2010
Rookie filmmaker Danny Dileo’s breakout film, The Fiction, provides a triple delight, one part Alfred Hitchcock, one part Stephen King, and one part Rod Serling. In this ambitious effort as writer, producer, and director, Dileo breaks both rules and boundaries, delivering an entertaining and lingering cinematic experience. Screenwriters are preached, often to the point of exhaustion to “write what they know, refrain from having people talk to themselves, and avoid dream sequences.” Dileo breaks the rules with a twist-laden, thought-provoking plot line.
Lead character Werther Oaks’s (Eric Hammer) writer’s block echoes The Shining, with slippages into Being John Malkovich surrealism, while intellectually yanking us back with a plot thread akin to Secret Window. At times, this film’s dialogue came across as overly expository, but overall was sparse enough to let the story flow. The story...
- 12/28/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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