Where the Wild Things Are, Part 2

My mom sent me this article about WTWTA that clears up a couple things:

1. CGI technology was used for the faces of the Wild Things. Someone told me there was no use of computer technology. That person was incorrect.

2. Karen O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs put together the soundtrack for the film, hence the weirdness and awesomeness of the music.

3. The MoMA is currently running a film retrospective entitled Spike Jonze, The First 80 Years. Who's up for a trip to New York?

As part of the show, they are showing the classic tear-jerker, and one of my childhood favorites, The Black Stallion. From a description of the screening:

The Black Stallion. 1979. USA. Directed by Carroll Ballard. Screenplay by Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Roseberg, William D. Wittliff. With Teri Garr, Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno. An enchanting yet rarely seen film adaptation of Walter Farley’s beloved 1941 book, about an American boy and an Arabian stallion who forge a nearly mystical bond of love and empathy when they are shipwrecked and forced to take refuge on a deserted Mediterranean island. “As soon as we started working on the script for Where the Wild Things Are, The Black Stallion was the first movie Dave Eggers and I watched. It was our aspiration to capture what Carroll Ballard had: a boy on an island finding his way with wild creatures and the camera trying to tag along—not to get in the way, but to capture the beauty of it all” (Spike Jonze). New 35mm print courtesy Academy Film Archive. 118 min.