A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema
★ 1.2 · 2014 · 60m · Documentary · TV Movie
A Night at the Movies, the ongoing TCM series of one-hour "Film Studies 101" specials, takes up the subject of "Fantasy" in its seventh and latest installment. Once again Laurent Bouzereau has created a documentary examining the many different ways that writers and directors have explored a particular genre--in this case, the limitless world of the imagination as portrayed in fantasy films.
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