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Dreams are an unusual part of human life and can tell us a lot about what's really going on in people's lives. Thus, it makes sense why so many filmmakers would want to include them in some way or another. Whether it's a prophetic vision or a manifestation of a character's anxieties, dreams can communicate with the audience in a really unique way.

Yet, dreams can sometimes ruin the entire plot of a movie. Fans hate it when the character wakes up and everything they've experienced has all been a dream. However, some films use this idea very carefully and manage to make dreams a key talking point without distracting audiences from the wider plot.

A Little Girl Returns to Her Home Comforts The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz first premiered in 1939 and is still considered to be one of the most magical films of all time. After experiencing a monumental tornado,...

Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. It’s really Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Technicolor valentine to itself, showing off the studio’s enormous stable of musical talent, along with various of its comic performers. Arthur Freed and Louis B. Mayer’s notion of ‘something for everyone’ results in weird stack of grandiose musical numbers and mostly weak comedy. The biggest draw is the incredible color cinematography that peeks through in three or four jaw-droppingly elaborate musical spectacles. The picture is a workout to find the artistic limits of the Technicolor system.

Ziegfeld Follies

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Warner Archive Collection

1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99

Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...

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The Wizard Of Oz, since its initial release in 1939, has richly deserved its long-cemented status as an all-time classic. A regular resident in the IMDb top 250 films of all time, and a part of many people’s DVD collection, it’s a film that I’d wager more and more people fall in love with each year. Long may that continue.

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Lots of brilliant people were involved in bringing The Wizard Of Oz to the big screen. Some terrific writers, too, who came up with a quotable and cherished script. The film’s screenplay is credited to Noel Langley,...

Chicago – Throughout his extensive work as a film columnist, author and journalist, Robert K. Elder has been drawn to exploring both the universality and striking diversity of the human experience. In his books, Elder is intent on capturing specific moments within the lives of his subjects, while discovering their universal truths through their juxtaposition.

Elder’s latest book, “The Film That Changed My Life,” is no exception. The book compiles one-on-one interviews with thirty directors about the pivotal moviegoing experience that altered their sense of cinema (and sense of self). Filmmakers and film buffs alike will undoubtedly find the book to be a compulsive page turner. John Woo discusses his idolization of James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause,” while Frank Oz gushes about his love of Welles in “Touch of Evil” and Atom Egoyan recalls the moment he first stumbled upon Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona.”

On June 11, Elder will...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in very early discussions with Warner Bros. to direct a live-action remake of the 1939 MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz," an individual familiar with the project has confirmed to TheWrap. And "remake" is the operative word. WB will be using the original "Oz" screenplay -- thought it's hard to imagine that Zemeckis is planning a pointless shot-for-shot remake like Gus Van Sant's "Psycho." Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf are credited with the original 1939 screenplay, although more than 19 writers had a hand...

If you named five movies that you believe should never, ever, ever be remade, one of the first that comes to mind (for me at least) is The Wizard of Oz. The brilliantly entertaining 1939 classic starring Judy Garland still holds up today and is one of the greatest films ever made, musical or not. Sadly, its time has now come. Deadline says that Warner Bros is looking to develop a live-action remake of The Wizard of Oz and they're currently in "early talks" with Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis to helm. Despite the level of talent involved, this is still something I am completely against. This really is a day I thought we'd never see! Not many details are known yet, however Deadline says they plan to use the original script from the 1939 movie, which is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, though ...