The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
The first in a long series of animated films based on Mattel’s girl’s doll Barbie. This casts Barbie as a lead in an adaptation of The Nutcracker ballet, although is largely routine
The third animated film based on the popular girl’s doll Barbie. This places Barbie into Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake in an okay telling, if one that suffers from the usual limited animation of Mainframe’s early films
Guy Maddin’s reinterpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a ballet and silent movie is an extraordinarily creative work while remaining far more faithful to the original story than many other film versions do
Live-action version of Cinderella starring Leslie Caron, a rather staid version with ballet sequences but where the magic and romance never much ignites
The novelty of a dance film about the end of the world in a giant flood
Big and no-expense-spared Disney prestige production based on the fairytale. The film is stunning to look at it in terms of production design and costuming but has a simplicity to it that leaves little for adults to engage with
Sumptuous, beautifully made ballet fantasy from Michael Powell based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. A Technicolor spectacle at a time when most films were still made in black-and-white
An amazing reinterpretation of the classical fairytale as modern ballet for adults. This does amazing things to reinvent the original and is visually extraordinary
A ballet adaptation of the stories of Beatrix Potter performed by The Royal Ballet with performers in animal costumes
One of the greatest of all fantasy films. A reasonable percentage of you are going to switch off when I use the word ballet but I urge you to bear with me and discover this stunningly cinematic Technicolor epic that uses sets in extraordinary ways that no other film ever has