Tag Archives: Fantasy

On the Comet (1970)

Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Karel Zeman (1910-1989) was a Czechoslovakian animator and filmmaker whose shorts and feature length films are like multi-media playgrounds in which actors move amongst baroque painted backdrops, interact with stop-motion animated creatures matted against deliberately flat, Victorian-style paintings and cut-outs, … Continue reading →

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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide gives Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) two-and-a-half stars and a fragment of a sentence. Until the Warner Archives recently released the film on DVD, I had hardly heard of it before; but upon learning … Continue reading →

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Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)

Posted on August 25, 2011 at 5:02 am by Jeff Kuykendall

So here is a musical science-fiction fantasy filmed in black-and-white with color sequences, produced by Lorne Michaels, featuring appearances by Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd the same year they made Ghostbusters, written and directed by Saturday Night Live writer Tom … Continue reading →

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