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62) The Juniper Tree
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
This stark, stunning debut feature is loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, and stars Björk in her first on-screen performance. Set in medieval Iceland, THE JUNIPER TREE follows Margit (BjörK) and her older sister Katla as they flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter and protection with Johan, and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit...
63) Bluebeard
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Controversial director Catherine Breillat retells the grisly fairytale of a child bride who is married to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives.
64) Air Doll
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
An "air doll" suddenly develops human feelings one day. Without her owner knowing, the air doll decides to walk around town. She then falls in love with Junichi, whom she spots while walking the aisles of a video rental store. She then starts to date Junichi and eventually works at the video shop. Everything seems to be going perfect for the air doll until something unexpected happens to her.
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three fairy sisters discover this, they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love, loss, and possibly a waking life.
69) Les Creatures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The birth of a novel collides with the life of a couple having a child. All the people the husband meets become his “creatures” in the novel he is writing.
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
A young man named Zeb Norman comes to a small strange town to look for a gift for his fiancée Rosalie. He finds a pair of silver slippers in a local antique shop run by a witch, who forces Zeb to help her obtain a mysterious pearl that was stolen from her by an ancient rival. Little does she know that Zeb's own motivations are as mysterious and surprising as her own.
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
Acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa tells a vivid story of life, loss and renewal through a series of eight dreams—from a young boy's dream of a wedding procession of fox spirits, through dreams of himself as an artist to dreams of a nuclear-poisoned future to a final dream of an old man at peace in a beautiful village.
72) Rosewater
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this award-winning short, a solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world. Heartbroken, he drifts in and out of a surreal dream state, envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual, and, ultimately, revelation. Featuring striking black-and-white 16mm cinematography and evocative sound design, ROSEWATER is a master class in short form visual and...
73) Blithe Spirit
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Charles suffers from terrible writer's block so he invites the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti (Judi Dench) to perform a seance in his home. He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons the spirit of his first wife who is shocked to find Charles now married to a new picture-perfect wife. Charles finds himself stuck between his two wives and their increasingly over-the-top attempts to outdo one another in this lethally...
75) Mandibles
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen Mercedes, they decide to train it in the hope of striking it rich.
76) Yo
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
Immediately following the success of Black Sunday, Mario Bava was recruited to direct (and photograph) the second of Reg Park’s Hercules films for producer Achille Piazzi. Freely departing from Roman mythology, the film gave Bava the opportunity to reimagine the sword-and-sandal genre. On its surface a jovial comedy adventure, Hercules in the Haunted World features a striking use of color, which would become one of Bava’s directorial hallmarks....
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema’s fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and...
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