Not Comics: A Few Notes About Comics-Related Movies

* an adaptation of a comics work won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. I have to imagine that would be a lifetime highlight for any creator to whom that happened. The comics work on which that film is based is called Le Bleu Est une Couleur Chaude, and was published by Glénat. It should be published in English soon one imagines with some sort of reference to the color in the title. Creator Julie Maroh's very nice note in reaction can be found here. I hope a lot of people read that comic and trust that will be the case now.

* I hadn't realized that the Jeffrey Jones documentary was available for digital download. I plan on catching up to that one myself.

* although I remain dismayed by the fact that their gravity-bending success hasn't engendered an open policy of reasonable reward/bonuses for the original creators and significant contributors, something I think is securely within their abilities to make happen, I am sort of in awe of the success of Marvel's film wing right now. An article like this one fairly underlines where they are right now: a unique brand that's company-centric to the point that an actor making his debut in that line of films is enough to generate a piece of entertainment-style news. I'm not sure that we've seen a precedent for it, and one reason I think Marvel has been so successful is that the team that has run them in this era has on a certain level valued Marvel more than Marvel in previous incarnations ever valued themselves.
 
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