Tag Archives: Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

We typically put Disney movies in a category of their own; we exclude them from the greater world of twentieth century cinema, and discuss them only in the context of the history of the Walt Disney Company. Thus it’s often … Continue reading →

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On the Comet (1970)

Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Karel Zeman (1910-1989) was a Czechoslovakian animator and filmmaker whose shorts and feature length films are like multi-media playgrounds in which actors move amongst baroque painted backdrops, interact with stop-motion animated creatures matted against deliberately flat, Victorian-style paintings and cut-outs, … Continue reading →

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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide gives Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) two-and-a-half stars and a fragment of a sentence. Until the Warner Archives recently released the film on DVD, I had hardly heard of it before; but upon learning … Continue reading →

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