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Ken Jacobs returns to Edison with 3-D specs in Anaglyph Tom
Scott Foundas, Village Voice (New York)
The Fountainhead |
Capitalism |
Returning to the 1905 Edison short that he stretched like a rubber band into 1969's seminal Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, [director Ken] Jacobs once again distends the picaresque one-reeler about a prepubescent pig thief to feature length [...]. [....] Periodically, Jacobs gives Edison a rest to weigh in on the current economic crisis, including an entr'acte that juxtaposes clips from the 1949 film version of The Fountainhead against C-SPAN footage of Alan Greenspan's mea culpa over the subprime mortgage crisis—an unexpected digression that nevertheless reinforces Jacobs's thesis that everything old is new again.
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