“…After his father is killed in World War II, a young Hungarian boy named Tako concocts a fantasy image of the parent he never really knew. …”

“…Released just months before the outbreak of World War I, Machin’s pacifist masterpiece is often celebrated for its prescient and realistic depiction of aerial combat, with dogfights so startling that the film was perceived, during its original release, as belonging to the fantasy genre. A classic Romeo-and-Juliet tale of lovers divided by the outbreak of war between their homelands. …”

“…With the help of former magician Walter Booth, he created elaborate fantasies in the mould of George Mlis such as The '?' …”

“…It is also a film about the language and style of the period— its films and plays, music and ideas, rhetoric and ideologies, frustrations and fantasies, as well as the realities and ardor, that a new revolution entailed.…”

“…Fantasy movie about the age of computers in communist Romania. …”

“…The memories, details and fantasies of the children are captured in animated form. …”

“…They intertwined his life story with two of his novellas: reality was transformed by beautiful fantasies, but as a result of that comparison it looked all the more cruel. …”

“…Передача Российской государственной телевизионной и радиовещательной компании (РГТРК) "Останкино" (Москва, Российская Федерация) была записана группой мониторинга Исследовательского Института радиостанции Свободная Европа/Свобода (Мюнхен) как часть проекта по анализу официальных средств информации стран бывшего Советского Союза. Ironic fantasy of Russian leadership intrigues on April Fools' Day. …”

“…Several festishes take on a bizarre sociopolitical twist: Jewish clients into Nazi fantasies, black clients into plantation slave scenarios, a white policeman submitting to a black master. …”

“…Discussions of personality of Peter the Great and of the problem of fantasy in art. Featured in the program: Akhmadulina, Bella Akhatovna (Poet); Spivakov, Vladimir Teodorovich (Music Band) Contributors: Spiridonova, Nataliia (Director) Обсуждение личности Петра I и проблемы фантазии в искусстве. …”

“…"Degenerate" artists and "inferior" races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of Jews, Roma, Slaves, etc.…”

“…The next day it turns out that the teacher is to become Kaziuk’s lodger. She stirs erotic fantasies in him. In a fit of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his relatives. …”

“…A dexterous parody of POW drama that includes several hilarious fantasy sequences, "Welcome, or No Trespassing" earned the ire of state censors and was initially banned — but not because of its rebellious spirit or apparent political allegory: the apparatchiks were concerned about the resemblance between Kostya's grandmother and Khrushchev. …”

“…The film undertakes a journey into the parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival showing how, in the midst of the constraints of life in the GDR, there existed a fantasy world where it was possible to dance to another tune, be individual and even provocative. …”

“…This is a deeply personal film in which the director goes back to his own childhood in order to show us a bizarre world made up of real-life images and the fantasies of a child. Though essentially introspective, the film is much more of a philosophical speculation, in terms of various images and apparitions, about the spiritual traditions of the Bulgarian people and the peculiarities of a national character shaped by specific historical events. …”

“…The dancer turned actress turned director is well represented with generous clips from her work both in front of and behind the camera, from the ethereally beautiful "The Blue Light "through the romantic fantasy Teifland, with special focus on her two most famous works: the stunning propaganda piece "The Triumph of the Will" (a chillingly brilliant work of demagoguery which she helped design and stage as well as film) and the poetic, technically breathtaking documentary "Olympia." …”

“…Porter and other early filmmakers used bizarre sets, fantastic costumes, and magic lantern tricks to illuminate their fantasy films. American parody supplied Douglas Fairbanks with enough unusual material to produce the truly surreal When the Clouds Roll By (1919). …”

“…Griffith and Lois Weber develop the radical language of cinema narrative through audience-friendly melodramas made for nickelodeon theaters. Experimental fantasies are depicted in such independent productions as Moonland (c. 1926), Lullaby (1929), and The Bridge (1929-30). …”