In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.
Tag: adaptation
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Time of the Raven
final movie in the first phase of bubble cinematic universe.
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Close Up
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King’s novella “The Sun Dog” and Julio Cortázar’s short story “Blow-Up” (“Las babas del diablo”).
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EverAfter
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle’s stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle’s life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
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Two Wolves of the Blood Princess
The house where a young mother and her son live is invaded by something with the intention of taking the boy. However, the mother’s intervention forces the creature to change its plans. The young woman is faced with a very difficult choice and ultimately, to save her son, she goes into the service of the King of the Dark Land. This is a story about love and the difficult choice between good and evil in the true sense, for the sake of those you truly love. Based on material from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
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Primitive War
Vietnam. 1968. A recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is an American science fiction superhero television series that originally aired on The CW, as part of the CW4Kids programming block, from December 13, 2008 to December 26, 2009. It is an adaptation of the Japanese tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Ryuki and is the second installment in the Kamen Rider franchise to be adapted for American audiences after Saban’s Masked Rider in 1995. The series was developed for television by Steve and Michael Wang and produced by Jimmy Sprague through Adness Entertainment.
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U-Prince The Series
It’s a twelve-part series based from Jamsai’s novels on twelve stories of handsome guys coming from twelve different faculties of a university. Every segment features a couple together with some of the recurring characters in the story.
The new grand campaign called the U-Prince introduces 12 heart-throbbing male ambassadors from each university.
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The 8 Show
Eight individuals trapped in a mysterious 8-story building participate in a tempting but dangerous show where they earn money as time passes.