With grandiose, poetry or irony, the fantastic cinema likes to revisit the myths, legends, and the major figures of the literature. I propose to you today an overview of the different treatments. When it came to the cinema to find stories to put in images, two obvious choices are presented to the filmmakers : they […]
Fantastic Cinema : Small budgets, big ideas
Thees filmmakers do not always possess the necessary means at their ambitions. If the audience can grasp the poetry or the truth of a film’s copyright to the staging, raw and to the artistic direction to be sleek; to budget equal it will tend to be more demanding of a fantastic film, waiting for certainly […]
fantastic Cinema : solace mythological
The question of the mythology is crucial when it comes to anchor a narrative in the fantastic genre. If the fantasy involves a progression of the protagonist in a strange world, flush with a series of events supernatural came over to shake his conception of reality, the story needs to ask a historical and cultural […]
fantastic Cinema : Tod Browning, between melodrama and fantastic
On the occasion of the release of the November 23, 2016, the restored version of Freaks, the monstrous parade, we are interested today to his director, Tod Browning, who devoted his career to build bridges between the genre of melodrama and fantastic. Generations after generations, many of the filmmakers are trying to enrich the art […]
The selection “Series B” : HITCHER
To help you make your choice in the multitude of series B generated by the cinema operating for the past fifty years, here is a selection of films distinguished by their high degree of improbability, their errors of taste assumed, and their leadership qualities-works well known. Fans of thriller the know, the road is a […]
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[CRITICAL BOOK] NANAR WARS – When the large success of Hollywood are plagiarizing
Notice to moviegoers of the improbable, the grotesque and the sublime, the editions Wombat have decided to spoil you by posting NANAR WARS, an anthology of the cinema of the infringement, the Star Wars Turkish the Harry Potter mexican. At first glance, one could believe that our enjoyment of the viewer comes from a satisfaction […]
The selection “Series B” : THE OPEN
If no release date has yet been announced for The Open, this movie is post-apocalyptic of the most singular, where tennis becomes an art of survival, continues to be talked about in various festivals around the world. Making a film can be a risky business, unreasonable, crazy. That follows a filmmaker as Marc Lahore must […]