Tag Archives: Surreal
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Fantastic Planet (La planète sauvage, 1973) establishes its theme in its very first moments. A mother is clutching her baby son to her chest, running for her life from something. She suddenly encounters a giant blue finger, which pushes her … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Animation, Psychedelic, Rene Laloux, Roland Topor, Science Fiction, Surreal
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
“This is the universe. Big, isn’t it?” So opens A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven, 1946), one of the finest films from the acclaimed British filmmaking team known as the Archers – director Michael Powell & … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 40's, afterlife, angel, David Niven, Drama, Fantasy, Jack Cardiff, Kim Hunter, Michael Powell, Powell & Pressburger, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Surreal, WWII
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Double Feature: Simon of the Desert (1965)/The Monk (1972)
Luis Buñuel had come out of the desert with Viridiana (1961). Since 1945 the Spanish-born enfant terrible behind the definitive works of Surrealist cinema, Un Chien Andalou (1929, with Salvador Dalí) and L’Age d’Or (1930), had been living in Mexico, … Continue reading
