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Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow?
scanners — ... When I hear the word "middlebrow," I always think of Frida Kahlo. But, wait, that's something else. This post is in preparation for a pending one about "Speed Racer" (and the brilliant appreciations of it by ...

The First 10 Entries for 'Most Anticipated' List
The Long Take — ... adaptation. A show that "was cheapo Japanese animation: flat, static, dubbed into badly translated English and barely "animated" at all, given that the frame only seemed to change approximately two times per second and the "moving" backgrounds were made up of about four cyclically repeating drawings instead of the eight or so we were used to seeing in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The faster Speed went, the slower the sequence of backgrounds." (from Roger Ebert in his review of speed racer). I'm expecting it's going to be great for the same reasons ...

Speed Racer (2008)
The Long Take — ... But hey, who seriously expected him to lose the eventual showdown and go back to his miserable existance, haunted by the memories of his dead brother and delusions of his father as he watches the 1943 Grand Prix, minutes before closing credits start to roll without any victorious and glorious climax? My guess is no one, not when we are watching a racing flick that is based on a "cheapo Japanese animation", nearly as sophisticated as ...