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135. FORBIDDEN ZONE (1982)
“…[a] spontaneous creation without thought to logic, reason or consequences.”–Richard Elfman on Forbidden Zone DIRECTED BY: Richard Elfman FEATURING: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale...
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CAPSULE: OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (LIVE ACTION) (2012)
DIRECTED BY: Bryan Buckley (“Asad”), Shawn Christensen (“Curfew”), Yan England (“Henry”), Sam French (“Buzkashi Boys”), Tom Van Avermaet (“Death of a Shadow”) FEATURING:Gérard Poirier, Shawn...
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137. THE TIN DRUM [DIE BLECHTROMMEL] (1979)
“[Günter Grass] called our [first draft] script ‘Protestant and Cartesian.’ It was lacking the irrational dimension of time, the nodal points where everything becomes confused and collapses in an...
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CAPSULE: RETURN OF THE KUNG FU DRAGON (1976)
Ju Ma Pao DIRECTED BY: Yu Chick-Lim FEATURING: Polly Kwan (as Sun Kuan Rin Feng), Cheung Lik, Li Chung-Chien, Hsiao Wang PLOT: A teenage princess learns kung fu so that she can return from exile inside...
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LIST CANDIDATE: JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012)
DIRECTED BY: Don Coscarelli FEATURING: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones PLOT: A young paranormal investigator relates his strange and twisted backstory...
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140. PROSPERO’S BOOKS (1991)
“This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge.”–Alonso, “The Tempest” [V,I] DIRECTED BY: Peter...
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Town bad boy, Bill, falls in love with Jane, and all is well until her father, the pastor, curses his ax.
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141. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1966)
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been...
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CAPSULE: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1986)
DIRECTED BY: Barry Letts FEATURING: Kate Dorning PLOT: A faithful adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s children’s book about the girl who falls down the rabbit hole, with musical numbers. WHY IT WON’T MAKE...
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146. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004)
“I love the animation, ’cause it’s very magical and very… fantapsychological?”—12-year old Josh Hutcherson (who played Markl) on Howl’s Moving Castle DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki FEATURING: Voices of...
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CAPSULE: BRANDED (2012)
DIRECTED BY: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn FEATURING: Ed Stoppard, Leelee Sobieski, Jeffrey Tambor, Max von Sydow PLOT: A Russian advertising executive develops the ability to see people’s brand...
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CAPSULE: ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1973)
DIRECTED BY: James MacTaggart FEATURING: Sarah Sutton, Brenda Bruce, June Taylor, Judy Parfitt, Freddie Jones, Geoffrey Bayldon, Richard Pearson, Raymond Mason, Anthony Collin, Douglas Milvain PLOT: On...
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CURTIS HARRINGTON’S NIGHT TIDE (1961)
Curtis Harrington was an authentic cineaste whose early work was entirely experimental. Among the films he worked on before branching out on his own (as an actor and a cinematographer) were Kenneth...
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155. THE SINGING RINGING TREE (1957)
Das Singende, Klingende Bäumchen “The following program will terrify anyone who remembers how BBC Children’s TV decided bizarre East German fairy tales were good for us. But everyone else needs to know...
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CAPSULE: THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC (2010)
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec DIRECTED BY: Luc Besson FEATURING: Louise Bourgoin, Nicolas Giraud, Jacky Nercessian, Gilles Lellouche, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Mathieu Amalric PLOT:...
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CAPSULE: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988)
DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki FEATURING: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning (Disney dubbed version) PLOT: Two young girls befriend a forest spirit who lives in a tree near their new country house. WHY IT...
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LIST CANDIDATE: THE ACID HOUSE (1998)
DIRECTED BY: Paul McGuigan FEATURING: Stephen McCole, Maurice Roëves, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Iain Andrew, Irvine Welsh, Kevin McKidd, Gary McCormick, Michelle Gomez, Ewen Bremner, Jemma...
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CAPSULE: THE RABBI’S CAT (2011)
Le Chat du Rabbin DIRECTED BY: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux FEATURING: Voices of François Morel, Maurice Bénichou, Hafsia Herzi, Mathieu Amalric PLOT: The adventures of a talking cat owned by an...
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THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926)
Historians, film buffs, and Disney fanatics all cite Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) as the first animated feature. While it is the first animated feature as we Americans tend to think of...
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LIST CANDIDATE: 7 FACES OF DR. LAO (1964)
DIRECTED BY: George Pal FEATURING: Tony Randall, Arthur O’Connell, Barbara Eden PLOT: A mysterious “Chinaman fakir” rides into a small western town of Abalone and shows the cartoonish townspeople a...
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