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The Scarlet Flower (1977)

No one will argue that the two finest cinematic adaptations of the Beauty and the Beast story are by Jean Cocteau and the Walt Disney Company, respectively. But dig deeper into fairy tale cinema and you’ll uncover the hypnotic, oneiric … Continue reading

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The Company of Wolves (1984)

If you have seen Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves (1984), your first viewing was probably a lot like mine: I went in expecting a werewolf movie and instead encountered something surprisingly more. The VHS cover art, ubiquitous in the … Continue reading

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Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka: The Night Before Christmas (1961)

The last Russian fairy tale film we’ll be visiting this year is one of the better (but stranger) films of Aleksandr Rou, the prolific director most closely associated with the genre. Rou’s central achievement in his career was visualizing the … Continue reading

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