Tag: Surrealism
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5 Films Inspired By the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (Red Riding Hood)
For the second part of the list dealing with the films based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, with a focus on the fairy tale Red Riding Hood, I chose a Japanese animated film “Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade” and a surrealist Czechoslovakian film “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders”, films which deal with this fairy…
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I Am Who I Am! – Identity Fragmentation in “Perfect Blue”
Satoshi Kon is arguably, alongside Hayao Miyazaki, the most important Japanese director of animated films. Perfect Blue is his first film and this directorial debut can be compared to David Lynch’s Eraserhead due to sheer boldness and far-reaching artistic vision. The film begins with a show staged for children featuring a Japanese version of Power…
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Reliving the Memory: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”
Alfred Hitchock’s desire was to make movies in which dream and reality are indistinguishable. In his Vertigo, he creates a nightmarish world in which Scottie (James Stewart) draws the female progatonist into a surreal ordeal, or it is the other way around; at certain moments we cannot really tell. The film is centered around several…
Vigour of Film Lines 