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Tag Archives: Fantasy
Year End 2012
A few days ago I spent the evening with four friends at our annual get-together to discuss what we had seen during the past year. Back when I was first invited to join the group years ago, there would often … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Comedy, Criterion, Fantasy, Home Video, Ken Russell
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March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle
As usual I seem to be out of sync with the current pop culture climate – of the most recent movies I’ve gone out to see, I enjoyed a colossal box office bomb, had serious reservations about the year’s biggest … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Found-footage, Review, Satire, Science Fiction, Violence
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Recent Viewing
I went to see the new Studio Ghibli release a couple of weeks ago. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) is based on the Borrowers books by Mary Norton, mostly written in the ’50s. These stories of little people who … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Directors, Fantasy, Franco Prosperi, Fred Zinnemann, French Film, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Hayao Miyazaki, Horror, Jean Rollin, Mondo Film, Thrillers
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Sabu and the Kordas
An 11-year-old orphan, discovered working in a maharajah’s stables by a cameraman on a scouting trip, represents one of the strangest anomalies in the history of movie-stardom. Osmond Borradaile was in India in preparation for a project based on a … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Adventure Films, Alexander Korda, Directors, Fantasy, Sabu, Zoltan Korda
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Not so Super 8
I don’t spend a lot of time these days wondering why my personal taste in movies is so often completely out of sync with popular and critical opinion, but every now and then something comes up that makes me pause … Continue reading
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Tagged Blockbusters, Fantasy, J.J. Abrams, Review, Steven Spielberg
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DVD of the week: The Feathered Serpent
British television in the ’60s and ’70s was limited by a lack of money, a fact which resulted in certain distinctive characteristics. Most shows were shot in studio, on videotape, with quite obviously flimsy sets. These limitations forced creators to … Continue reading
Nigel Kneale & British genre television
British TV has always been primarily a writer’s medium; since the ’50s, the biggest stars have tended to be the writers, with writers’ names attached possessively to projects. Television production was often built around writers such as Alan Bennett, Alan … Continue reading
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Tagged British Film, British Television, DVD, Fantasy, Hammer Films, Horror, Nigel Kneale, Rudolph Cartier, Science Fiction, Writers
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DVD of the week: Messiah of Evil (1973)
Messiah of Evil (1973) is one of those movies I’d vaguely heard about over the years, but never had an opportunity to see until the recent DVD release from Code Red. In fact, it seemed that I’d only heard about … Continue reading
Peter Yates (1929-2011)
Peter Yates died in London on January 9, aged 81. His two best-known films were Bullitt (1968) and Breaking Away (1979), and that perhaps indicates why he was not as widely known as many of his contemporaries. He directed a … Continue reading
