Windows on the Will
Zadie Smith reviews “The Polar Express,” a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, “Anomalisa,” a film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, and “On the Suffering of the World,” by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale.
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Fresh Air: Frame-By-Frame, Filmmakers Make The Mundane Miraculous In 'Anomalisa'
Anomalisa, a new film about an emotionally stifled, middle-aged customer service expert, tackles existential questions about what it means to be alive. But unlike other movies that raise similar issues, the characters in Anomalisa are doll-size puppets. With Terry Gross, not that Dave Davies.
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