I’m turning 30 in a few days. And you know, if I can be serious for a moment, this column right here that you’re reading? It feels like the most important thing I’ve ever done. Not because it has had an impact on sales, because I’m sure it hasn’t. What it has done is motivate me. Most of my creative endeavours are received with little fanfare and that’s fine but when life comes along and gets in the way of that work, I yield to more important things. But what’s happened with Comic Execution is that creators have been responding to my criticism and praise in very honest and human ways and that kind of recognition has pushed it to the top of my list of priorities, because I want to better understand how and why creators do what they do.
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- 9/19/2014
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
As a lover of old, rustic folktales and being married to a descendant of an eastern European Jew, Baba Yaga holds a special place in my heart. Creepier and more twisted than the Grimm Bros' tales, Baba Yaga tells a story of a witch who lives in a hut that stands on giant chicken legs and eats children who get lost in the forest. In its many variations, the witch is often perceived as both venerable and monstrous.Jessica Oreck's ravishing new film is not a mere anthropological documentary on Eastern Europe. As with her first two beautiful films, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboy, Baba Yaga also falls neatly into region specific ethnographic study at first, this time, of the Slavic world....
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- 3/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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