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Subgenre Sampler
Life Is A Bed Of Roses (1983)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin - Ambitious fantastical oddity from dir. Resnais was made as a tribute to era–defining French directors Melies, L'Herbier and Rohmer, weaving…
Zu Warriors (Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain) (1983)- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Biao Yuen, Moon Lee, Brigitte Lin… - A renowned fantasy film, in which four medieval warriors search the universe for twin swords with which to defeat a powerful demon, which threatens…
Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The (Tajemstvi hradu v Karpatech) (1981)- Dir. Oldrich Lipsky
Feat. Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky… - Cult oddity based on the Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle, a sci–fi horror story about a campy count who haunts a house overlooking a…
Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979)- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang - A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
Magic Flute, The (1975)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
- An immaculately delivered version of Mozart's operatic fairytale, filmed on a special replica of the original 18th century stage. At its simplest,…
Arabian Nights (Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte) (1974)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche - For the final part of his “Trilogy of Life”, Pasolini interweaves several of the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’,…
Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970)- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig… - A vibrant, whimsical and genuinely fantastic adaptation of Perrault's classic 17th century fairy tale in which a Princess (Deneuve) disguises herself…
Cremator, The (1968)- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova - Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina - Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka - Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
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