watcha watchin profcrispy?
well last night had the great emma over to the new house in the woods, with her boyfriend jason. we watched the astounding the thief and the cobbler. in some ways it's probably the greatest feature-length animation ever produced, but what a tale. richard williams spent some 26 years on it. then lost the ownership of it. miramax put out a version a week before aladdin - which in some ways derived from it - was released, and on a budget of 24 million it grossed 300,000. and they seized the film, adding the voices of a bunch of movie stars to a picture that was conceived as mostly silent. they also added a series of songs that were as bad as the worst that ever appeared in a disney film. in the process of finishing the thing they sent the art to thailand, where it was lost. even with all of that, the visual imagination is stunning, abstract, various, utterly brilliant. someday somehow a decent version of this film has to be produced.