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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988)
Classic BBC
I have just purchased this on DVD for my seven year old son, after I recalled watching it when it was first screened in the eighties, on the prime Sunday "teatime" spot on BBC1 in the UK. It is a typical BBC production, working with a limited budget, they manage to make a magical & intelligent interpretation of C.S. Lewis's work. The Children who play Peter, Susan, Edmund & Lucy do so with some style, Peter especially, playing his role as the older brother to perfection. Although the budget constraints do show, especially with the animation/live action mix, some of the costumes still look good even now, in this age where CGI enhancement is king. I would recommend this production to anyone, it is classic story-telling in the finest sense.
La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
Visually stunning, slightly disturbing & too short!
The city of Lost Children is simply a beautifully crafted movie. The way the movie looks immediately sucks you in & is in perfect keeping with the subject matter. This dark fairy-tale which in my opinion has much in common with the style of David Lynch also has it's lighter moments, and some of the humour that was to be seen later in Jeunet's Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain can also been seen here. Minor criticism for this film is that it is perhaps too short & the story requires the watcher to make a few intuitive leaps (cutting considerations perhaps?) & that the dub into English isn't particularly well done. Ron Perlman turns in a great performance as "One" & Dominique Pinon shows considerable talent as le scaphandrier/les clones