fairy tales

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Cinderella - (1950 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042332/
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A semi-slave girl dreams of true love, but must struggle to prove she is the one.

Adorable.


Hansel and Gretel (2013) poster

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http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=216

Two orphans become witch hunters.

This is not horror. It’s kindof a light action film. Quite good.

The style is medieval-meets-western. I’ve seen other movies which do this, and I like it quite a lot.

Unnecessarily foul language. It’s jarring.

Great effects, camera work and general atmosphere.

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To read

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To read

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To read

The Harvard Classics – Registered Edition – Edited by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D.

  • aka Stories from The Thousand and One Nights

    • (italicization theirs)
    • The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
  • Translated by Edward William Lane, revised by Stanley Lane-Poole
  • With Introduction and Notes
  • 1909, 1937, 62nd printing: 1969