fantasia

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Shot on film by cinematographer Alex Ashe to achieve a warm, grainy period look, the movie takes its two-people-talking premise as the unlikely springboard for a subtly rendered visual fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The germ of an edgy fantasia about an isolated pop icon’s ego death is swimming somewhere in the DNA of “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” but it’s been flattened into a superficial, tear-stained pity party.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025

One chapter looks at a literary example, William Wells Brown’s novel "Clotel," which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

The thesis of “Gasoline Rainbow,” the latest cinematic fantasia from the brothers Bill and Turner Ross, is articulated in its first moments, in voice-over set atop a sunset.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

Not only piano-forte music, but in a measure all music, has become a brilliant fantasia by Signor Rumblestominski.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various