THE SNOWMAN (1982) dir. D. JOHNSON
This obsoletes hundreds of shoddy holiday cash-ins made since. Howard Blake’s orchestrations are melodious and heartbreaking, as is the uncompromising confrontation with mortality (good luck passing that in the States). Makes Zemeckis' über-glitzy motion capture adaptation of Polar Express, by Briggs’ contemporary color penciller Chris van Allsburg, unforgivable.
Your blog is what I found when I Googled my favourite lyric, curious if somebody else had already used it as a title. This is great, in title, design, concept, and writing. So sad to see it sit fallow. Perhaps you have a new home? I want to read more.
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