Nov 25, 2014
60 min
Full-HD

A Night at the Movies: George Lucas & The World of Fantasy Cinema (2014)

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.

Category

Documentary TV Movie

Country

United States of America

Companies

Amblin Television Turner Classic Movies

George Lucas

Himself

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