

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
1896-01-01
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7.2A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
5.7St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
6.0A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
6.3A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
6.9At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.
5.2A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…
5.0Melodrama based on the autobiographical screenplay by Svetlana Shafranskaya. A love story of a 12-year-old girl who goes on a tour with the theatre in which her father works. This love will bring her much trouble, disappointments and grief, but at the same time will awaken her soul, make her happier and wiser.
3.6A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.
8.1The film follows a young boy named Ranko who discovers a large German Shepherd in the mountains, a remnant of the recent war. After freeing the dog from a trap, Ranko befriends the animal and, based on an inscription on its collar, names him Hund. However, the local villagers mistake the dog for a dangerous wolf, a "lone wolf," and resolve to kill it. Fearing for his new companion's safety, Ranko secretly brings food to Hund in the mountains. In a turn of events, the dog saves Ranko from a real wolf attack. The villagers, convinced that this "lone wolf" is responsible for killing sheep, organize a hunt. In a climactic moment, Ranko manages to save his loyal friend from the hunting party, solidifying their bond.
5.5At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.
6.0Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color was rare in 1902 (and many years after) as non-tinted color has to be hand painted on the film; this was an arduous task. Also notable is the film's short running time of approximately five minutes. Much of the original work is not covered, but viewers were expected to be familiar with the story, and enjoy the filmed highlights. There are a couple of scenes missing; according to contemporary reports, Gulliver's shipwreck was certainly included. You can do a lot in a few minutes, as Mr. Méliès includes a re-make of his own "Une partie de cartes" (1896), which already looked like something previously covered by the Lumière Brothers.
4.0This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville flipbook.)
6.0An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
6.1The various clocks and watches in a clock store dance, ring alarms musically, and otherwise entertain us in an after hours presentation.
5.7Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
6.7Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
5.6When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
7.9Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
6.5On a cold winter night, Laura reads her brother David the story of a strange creature that attacks children. Suddenly, a shiver runs Laura's body, feeling a strange presence in the house. It's him.
5.7A young girl follows her parents to a party where she experiences assorted grown-up rituals. As the evening progresses she finds the adults' behavior increasingly strange. Everyone tries to fit in, but not everyone succeeds.
5.0An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.
0.0In a gloomy era of Taiwan under Japanese rule, there's a noble family, the mother of the twins of different sexes died early, and their father works for the government away from home. YU, the twin brother, have nightmares every night about being drowned by someone. He is lonely and longing to talk to his sister, but he could not meet her. Because AMEKO, the twin sister, has been in illness isolation since childhood. Things become strange while their cousin WEN CHENG was returning from Japan. YU finds out a big secret of the whole family, about his sister and the killer in the dream.
0.0An elderly female psychiatrist in New York finds a female giant monster under her bed, becomes obsessed and exposes it to various scientific investigations.
6.6Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
0.0A elderly woman connects an old photograph of her son with a boy from the neighborhood, is it a haunting memory or a strange coincidence?
0.0A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
0.0A psychological mind game that visually follows a forbidden couple when a bizarre delivery arrives on their doorstep.
7.4A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
0.0A young woman relives a nightmare each time she wakes up to the front door closing. Is she awake? Is that just her roommate in the hall? Or is there something terrible waiting behind her door?
6.3Prisoners, two sisters share their life in a strange place. The mundane routine, along curiosity, will bring Prita to break the boundaries of the secure place.
8.1A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.