He can make me laugh, that Anthony Lane. See this example from this week, reviewing a French animated feature in the
New Yorker:
The film is largely in black-and-white, yet the result, far from seeming gloomy, has the pertness and the simplicity of a cutout. I found it, if anything, too simple. The faces are no more than tapered ovals, which makes some of the characters hard to distinguish, and I was left with the nagging, if ungallant, impression that I had been flipping through a wipe-clean board book entitled “Miffy and Friends Play with Islamic Fundamentalism.”
The November 26 issue is possibly the best all year, with several pages devoted to classic New Yorker comics, a hilarious article on driving in China, a bemusing piece about Barack Obama and the befuddling arcane process of getting a nomination in the Democratic primaries, a great two-page fold out artwork, as well as a cute Anthony Lane review of the latest Bob Dylan movie. (And he delivers a neat one liner on a Stephen King film, 'The Mist').
ReplyDeleteWorth getting at a good magazine store, possibly 'Magnation' at Elizabeth St in Melbourne, while you're here...!