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see all genres ›The mind's dreaming imagination (surreal, illogical, fantastical) emerges in cinema as in no other artistic medium.
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Genres / Fantasy / Dream
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Baron Münchausen’s Dream
The legendary Baron Münchausen (an actual German aristocrat well-known for his exaggerated stories) has been portrayed many times in dozens of films over the years. In this telling by the equally remarkable Georges Méliès, Münchausen has spent an evening dining with his friends. He retires for the night...Start your free trial to watch
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The Comb
THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, THE COMB is an exploration of the subconscious visualized as a labyrinthine playhouse haunted by a doll-like explorer. A mesmerizing and resonant...Start your free trial to watch
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A Dog's Love
The fantasy centers on a dog and a child, a universally appealing movie subject. The loyal dog's attachment to his little girl playmate is treated with pictorial beauty and simple, honest sentiment. Reviewers of the time praised the double-exposure passages for their dramatic effectiveness. Baby Helen, also known as The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
A stunning visual fantasy adapted from the comics of Winsor McCay, which had appeared in the New York Telegram since 1904. Edwin S. Porter not only borrowed McCay's title but his dream-based narrative structure. Likewise, McCay's surreal imagery is convincingly realized on the screen using a variety of...Start your free trial to watch
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Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
Winsor McCay, renowned for such comic strips as "Little Nemo in Slumberland," earlier explored dream imagery with his 1904 strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" in which a character claims his horrible nightmares are caused by eating Welsh rarebit. In 1911, McCay began doing film animation, personally drawing...Start your free trial to watch
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Exterior Night
Using extensive rear projection to remarkable effect (actors, in color, against black and white backgrounds and all photographed in high definition), Mark Rappaport evocatively plays with the themes of noir while contemporizing the stakes involved. In EXTERIOR NIGHT, there is no past. There is no present. There is only the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fay's Twelve Days of Christmas
How many Wegman Weimaraners does it take to count the twelve days of Christmas? William Wegman brings together his famous family of Weimaraners to get ready for the holidays in a witty and delightful festival of decorating, crafts, cooking, gift wrapping, fruitcake and more. Watch as Batty, Crooky, Chundo...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fear
A young woman is having nightmares. Her husband reassures her that there is a rational basis for her fears. But what is that noise in the closet? A ghoulish vision of a woman's place that doubles as a stylish homage to 1970s horror, THE FEAR wrings dread out of every camera movement and splash of color.Start your free trial to watch
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Footprints
The feature directorial debut of award-winning writer Steven Peros (the screenwriter of Peter Bogdanovich's THE CAT'S MEOW), FOOTPRINTS is a haunting, hopeful and unforgettable mystery which chronicles a young woman's journey of discovery on Hollywood Boulevard in one day, from sunrise to sunset. Sybil Temtchine stars as a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted House
Buster Keaton, on the run, hides in an abandoned house where a visiting opera company of "Faust" also seeks refuge. The film's great moment is a dream sequence in which Buster dreams he is an angel ascending to heaven. At Saint Peter's gate he is rejected and slides down a chute to hell where he discovers...Start your free trial to watch
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Imagination
Dr. Reineger, a famous neuro-psychologist, has become convinced that a twin girl named Anna has a rare form of Autism called Asperger's Syndrome, rendering her unable to cope with reality. As for her blind sister, Sarah, the doctor cannot say for sure why her imaginary visions map so close to Anna's. At home, unable to face...Start your free trial to watch
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In the Bogie Man's Cave
The Bogie Man’s cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more...Start your free trial to watch
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Kimono
This half hour "ambient narrative" was made for the German TV series EROTIC TALES. Inspired by some of the more sensual readings in a collection of classical Japanese poetry, the film follows a young bride abandoned at a desolate roadside, and her dream-like descent into the depths of the forest. There, other aspects of...Start your free trial to watch
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Mandarin Mix-Up
Failing all tests of political correctness, Stan Laurel stars as a Chinatown launderer named Sum Sap. MANDARIN MIX-UP compensates for its questionable premise with brilliantly surreal slapstick. In one scene, a very adult Laurel plays an infant; in another, he floats through an opium dream. The location detail of a radiant...Start your free trial to watch
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Marble Heart
This story, already a well-known English play of 1854 adapted from an earlier French play, casts the three most popular Thanhouser adult stars in a story of unrequited love, with a dream sequence that parallels the main story. Pale makeup is especially noticeable in some scenes, the answer to orthochromatic film’s...Start your free trial to watch
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Margarette's Feast
A Brazilian black-and-white silent film, MARGARETTE'S FEAST is director Renato Falcão's stunning debut feature. The phenomenal Hique Gomez plays the stereotypical little-guy-against-the-world whose predicament transforms him into this tall stick of a human alternately tugging at your heart-strings and your...Start your free trial to watch
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A Nightmare
It's not to excuse the practice of blackface minstrelsy to note that it was perfectly widespread in North America and Europe during the nineteenth century and that Georges Méliès' use of it here (and a few others of his later films) seems a function of chroma more than race or culture; the blackened performer that surprises...Start your free trial to watch