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The City of Lost Children (1995)

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The City of Lost Children (1995)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
Title: The City of Lost Children
AKA: La Cité des enfants perdus
Year: 1995
Directed: Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Marc Caro
Genre: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 hour, 52m
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English.srt

Cast:
Ron Perlman: One
Daniel Emilfork: Krank
Judith Vittet: Miette
Dominique Pinon: le scaphandrier / les clones
Jean-Claude Dreyfus: Marcello
Geneviève Brunet: a Pieuvre
Odile Mallet: la Pieuvre
Mireille Mossé: Mademoiselle Bismuth

Plot / Synopsis

This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank is a foul, monstrous creature who lords over the inhabitants of a small island; Krank’s emotional being is every bit as ugly as his physical personage, largely because he does not have the ability to dream. However, he has developed a machine that can drain the dreams of others from their heads, and he devotes himself to kidnapping children from a nearby harbor town so that he can steal their pleasant dreams. Denree (Joseph Lucien) is one of the children who has been spirited off to the island; Krank discovers that he’s an even bigger problem than he imagined when his big brother One, a harpoon-wielding mountain of a man, sets out on a rescue mission. Once he arrives on Krank’s island, One encounters a brain in a fish tank that has learned to talk, a group of clones who can’t decide who is the original, a pair of Siamese twins, an octopus that guides a group of orphaned thieves, and a girl named Miette who says she can guide One to Denree. ~ AMG

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Delicatessen (1991)

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Title: Delicatessen
Year: 1991
Directed: Marc Caro / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Runtime: 1 hour, 35m
Country: France
Language: French
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/
Subtitles: English.srt

Cast:
Dominique Pinon: Louison
Marie-Laure Dougnac: Julie Clapet
Jean-Claude Dreyfus: Clapet
Karin Viard: Mademoiselle Plusse
Ticky Holgado: Marcel Tapioca
Anne-Marie Pisani: Madame Tapioca
Pascal Benezech: Tried to Escape

Plot / Synopsis

A post-apocalyptic future becomes the setting for pitch black humor in this visually intricate French comedy. The action takes place within a single apartment complex, which is owned by the same man that operates the downstairs butcher shop. It’s a particularly popular place to live, thanks to the butcher’s uncanny ability to find excellent cuts of meat despite the horrible living conditions outside. The newest building superintendent, a former circus clown, thinks he has found an ideal living situation. All that changes, however, when he discovers the true source of the butcher’s meat, and that he may be the next main course. This dark tale is played out in a brilliantly designed, glorious surreal alternate world reminiscent of the works of director Terry Gilliam, who co-presented the film’s American release. Like Gilliam, co-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro hail from an animation background, and have a fondness for extravagant visuals, absurdist plot twists, and a sense of humor that combines sharp satire with broad slapstick and gross-out imagery. This mixture may displease the weak of stomach, but those attuned to the film’s sensibility will be delighted by the obvious technical virtuosity and wicked sense of humor.
~ All Movie Guide

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The Bothersome Man (2006)

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Aka:Den brysomme mannen , Vandræðamaðurinn
Year: 2006
Directed: Jens Lien
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Mystery
Runtime:  95 min
Country: Norway/Iceland
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: English

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808185/

Cast:
Trond Fausa Aurvaag     …     Andreas
Petronella Barker    …     Anne Britt
Per Schaaning    …     Hugo
Birgitte Larsen    …     Ingeborg
Johannes Joner    …     Håvard
Ellen Horn    …     Trulsen
Anders T. Andersen    …     Harald
Sigve Bøe    …     Liten Mann
Hanne Lindbæk    …     Vigdis
Ivar Lykke    …     Kollega 1

Plot / Synopsis

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there’s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to “the other side”? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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The Fabulous Baron Munchausenl (1961)

March 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Title: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
AKA: Baron Prásil, The Original Fabulous Adventure of Baron Munchausen
Year: 1961
Directed: Karel Zeman
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Fantasy/Romance/Sci-Fi/War
Runtime: 1 hour, 20m
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Germany
Subtitles: Czech

IMDB: Baron Prásil

Cast:
Milos Kopecký:  Baron Munchausen
Rudolf Jelínek:  Tonik
Jana Brejchová:  Princess Bianca
Karel Höger:  Cyrano
Nadesda Blazickova:  Court Dancer
Karel Effa:  Adjutant
Josef Hlinomaz:  Spanish General
Zdenek Hodr:  Nicole

Plot / Synopsis

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (aka Baron Prasil) begins with a modern astronaut named Joe arriving on the moon, only to discover that’s he’s already been beaten by the likes of Jules Verne, Baron Munchausen and Cyrano de Bergerac, who toast to the new arrival from their lunar-Victorian dinner table. The baron invites Joe onto his Pegasus-drawn frigate for an interstellar traipse back to terrestrial territory.

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was Czechoslovakian special-effect master Karel Zeman’s follow-up to The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. Using Gustav Dore paintings as backdrops, Zeman recounts the many mendacious adventures of the boastful Baron. The film opens on the surface of the moon, where a modern-day cosmonaut confronts both Munchausen and another legendary pioneer space traveller, Cyrano de Bergerac. The cosmonaut then joins the Baron for further highlight suspect escapades. Combining live action, stop-motion animation and deliberately unreal backgrounds, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (original title: Baron Prasil) is a wonderful bouquet to the spirit of imagination–or “the spirit of man”, as the cosmonaut puts it.

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Munchhausen (German) (1943)

March 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Munchhausen (1943)

Title: Münchhausen
AKA: Baron Munchhausen
Year: 1943
Directed: Josef von Báky
Genre: Fantasy
Runtime: 1 hour, 50m
Country: German
Language: Germany
Subtitles: English

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036191/

Cast:
Hans Albers: Baron Münchhausen
Wilhelm Bendow: Der Mondmann
Brigitte Horney: Zarin Katharina II
Michael Bohnen: Herzog Karl von Braunschweig
Ferdinand Marian: Graf Cagliostro
Hans Brausewetter: Freiherr von Hartenfeld
Hermann Speelmans: Christian Kuchenreutter
Marina von Ditmar: Sophie von Riedesel
Andrews Engelmann: Fürst Potemkin
Käthe Haack: Baronin Münchhausen

Plot / Synopsis

In early 1943, just as Nazi Germany began its collapse with the surrender at Stalingrad, the famed Ufa Studios released an elaborate super-spectacle to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary. Produced at the enormous cost of 6.5 million Reichsmarks, and filmed in Agfacolor, Munchhausen was the bizarre Nazi response to such extravaganzas as Britain’s The Thief of Bagdad and Hollywood’s The Wizard of Oz, both of which were jealously admired by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. Starring Hans Albers, the hypnotic, blond superstar (who kept a Jewish lover safely in London), and a bevy of female stars, the film was meant to divert a German public, and those in occupied Europe, then experiencing aerial bombardment as well as extensive military casualties.

This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette, supervised by cameraman Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, who had worked for Fritz Lang in earlier Ufa films. Escaping the grim reality of the time with the illusion of luxury and pure fantasy (and a lovely score by Georg Haentzschel), Munchhausen daringly glorifies a braggart and liar, and was scripted by the banned Jewish author Erich Kustner under a pseudonym. The Nazi censors deemed the film ‘artistically’ but not ‘politically’ valuable; perhaps the sight of a man-hungry Catherine the Great (Brigitte Horney), topless harem girls, and a vacation-pretty Venetian Grand Canal in glorious color were thought a bit rich for audiences under grim wartime restrictions.

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Beauty and the Beast (1946) Criterion

March 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment



Title: Beauty and the Beast
AKA: La Belle et la Bête
Year: 1946
Directed: Jean Cocteau
Genre: Fantasy
Runtime: 1 hour, 33m
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/

Cast:
Jean Marais: La Bête/The Beast/The Prince / Avenant
Josette Day: Belle
Mila Parély: Félicie
Nane Germon: Adélaïde
Michel Auclair: Ludovic
Raoul Marco: The Usurer
Marcel André: Belle’s Father

Plot / Synopsis

La Belle et la bête, the film which marked Jean Cocteau’s return to directing after an interval of 15 years, is a work which continues the vein of fantasy which had characterised his scriptwriting during the wartime years. To this extent the film is typical of its period, for the early postwar years in France saw a basic continuity with approaches established during the Vichy period (there was no resurgence of realism in France to compare with the emergence of neorealism in Italy). But in all other ways the appropriation of a fairy tale to the filmmaker’s own personal mythology is a totally individual work.

The film is based on the tale as told by Madame Leprince de Beaumont, but there is little evidence in Cocteau’s approach of the childlike innocence which the director demands of his audience in his brief introduction to the film. Visually, the film is one of Cocteau’s most sophisticated works. The costumes designed by Christian Bérard and the lighting and framing devised by Henri Alekan are decorative rather than functional and take their inspiration from classic Dutch painting, particularly the work of Vermeer. Despite the presence of René Clément as technical supervisor, the film shows none of the reliance on complexity of scripting and use of heavy irony so characteristic of French cinema in the late 1940s. The legend is handled in a dazzingly eclectic style. The home life of Belle’s family is parodied and often broadly farcial in tone, as, for instance, in the use of cackling ducks to comment on the attitudes of her sisters. By contrast, the departure of Belle for the Beast’s castle and her entry there are totally stylised, with Cocteau employing slow motion photography to obtain a dreamlike effect. to suspend our disbelief. After all, isn’t everything else perfectly normal?

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