Tag Archives: Arabian Nights
The Meaningless Obligatory Midnight Only End of the Year Award List of Blu-rays Released in 2018
Happiest Retro Film Discoveries of 2018 Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967) – Criterion Collection King Hu, who would later direct A Touch of Zen (1971), delivers a wuxia with physics-defying swordplay and virtually nonstop action, dispensing with any necessary exposition … Continue reading
Posted in The Lobby
Tagged 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, Arabian Nights, Dario Argento, George Romero, Hammer, Jamil Dehlavi, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, John Goodman, John Landis, King Hu, Linda Blair, Michele Soavi, monkey, Slasher, Tom Hanks, William Castle, wuxia, Zombie
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24 Hours of Stop Motion Creatures
The recent arrival of Indicator’s Sinbad Trilogy box set, collecting the three Sinbad films with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, and Indicator’s subsequent announcement of the forthcoming The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen Volume 1 (It Came from Beneath the … Continue reading
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
As fantasy films go, they don’t get much better than this. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was also the seventh big-screen voyage of Ray Harryhausen, whose magical stop motion creatures populated Mighty Joe Young (1949, alongside mentor Willis O’Brien), … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 50's, Arabian Nights, Bernard Herrmann, cyclops, Dragon, Fantasy, genie, Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Nathan Juran, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Eyer, Roc, Sirens, Skeleton, Stop Motion, Torin Thatcher
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