Donkey Skin (French: Peau d'Âne; also known in English as Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey) by Jacques Demy.
Based on "Donkeyskin", a 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
This film has the gentle magic and unforgettable images of the classical fairy tales.
"My dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C.S. Lewis." ― C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
The Eternals (Volume 1) #10.
"Mother!"
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore.
A vicious and abnormal horror novel.
Adapted very loosely into Hammer Horror Productions' The Curse of the Werewolf by Terence Fisher.
Fun Fact:
Zeus was even more popular than you realized.
There's actually a temple in Egypt that was dedicated to Zeus. I'm not making a word of that up. It's not dedicated Osiris, not Set, not even Horus. A temple dedicated to Zeus.
Apparently, the site was originally found in the early 1900s when French Egyptologist Jean Clédat found ancient Greek inscriptions referring to a temple to "Zeus Kasios". Kasios being the local Syrian Mountain where Zeus was worshiped at one point, but the temple wasn't excavated until recently. They've also found inscriptions in the area that tell of the Roman Emperor Hadrian renovating the temple as recently as the second century. The team of archaeologists are continuing to explore the site and personally, I can't wait to learn more about what they dig up.
"A movie that happens everywhere matters nowhere." - Alfred Hitchcock ("Blackmail" (1929); "Murder!" (1930))
Fun Fact:
Humans have been astral planing a LOT longer than we thought.
Researchers analyzed hair strands from a burial site in Menorca and detected scopolamine, ephedrine and atropine. Atropine and scopolamine are naturally occurring substances in the nightshade plant family that cause hallucinations and altered sensory perception, while ephedrine is a stimulant taken from certain shrubs and pines that boosts excitement and physical activity. Before this discovery, we'd only found indirect evidence of psychedelic use in ancient cultures. The cave that the analyzed hair strands were taken from was first occupied around 1600 BCE and featured a chamber that was used as a funeral space until around 800 BCE. It's estimated that 210 individuals were laid to rest here, but only certain people had their hair dyed red, placed in containers and sealed in a chamber further back in the cave. We don't know what made these individuals so special that their hair had to be preserved but we are certain that a major psychedelic discovery was just made in Spain.
In my opinion, this is one of the best Judge Dredd movies (along with the 2012 adaptation).
Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) by Paul Grimault.
The first animated surrealist film.
An animator's animated film. The King and the Mockingbird was at the forefront of animation as an art. Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
Fun Fact:
This scene from the 1992 film, Bram Stoker's Dracula adapts a real legend regarding the first wife of Vlad Ţepeş, the Wallachian Voivode also called "Dracula".
According to this legend, while Vlad was away from his fortress (Poenari Castle), an arrow message was shot into the chamber of the princess with news of the Ottoman army's attack on the castle the following morning. Rather than risking capture, the princess jumped from the castle tower into the river below. In the film however, she jumps after hearing false news of Dracula's death.
The river in this legend was later named "Râul Doamnei", meaning "The Lady's River". In a later scene in the film, Dracula names the river "Argeș, River Princess". But Argeș is actually the larger river that Râul Doamnei connects to.
Coco by Lee Unkrich.
Viva la Coco!! ^^
It's beautiful.
¡Feliz Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)!
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