Anthology film
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An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author. Sometimes each one is directed by a different director or written by a different author, or may even have been made at different times or in different countries. Anthology films are distinguished from "revue films" such as Paramount on Parade (1930)—which were common in Hollywood in the early decades of sound film, composite films, and compilation films.
Anthology films are often mistaken with hyperlink cinema. Hyperlink cinema shows parts of many stories throughout a film, whereas anthology films show story segments of one at a time. Some mistaken examples include Pulp Fiction (1994) and Amores Perros (2000), distributing their storylines non-chronologically, separated by segments.
Examples[edit]
- Intolerance (1916)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- If I Had a Million (1932)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
- Dead of Night (1945)
- L'Amore (1948)
- Quartet (1948)
- Trio (1950)
- Encore (1951)
- O. Henry's Full House (1952)
- Actors and Sin (1952)
- Love in the City (1953)
- Siamo donne (1953)
- Invitation to the Dance (1956)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- Boccaccio '70 (1962)
- Love at Twenty (1962)
- Mondo Cane (1962)
- Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
- Countersex (1964)
- My Wife (1964)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Le bambole (1965)
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
- Six in Paris (1965)
- Sex Quartet (1966)
- The Witches (1967)
- The Illustrated Man (1968)
- Spirits of the Dead (1968)
- From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- Trilogy of Terror (1975)
- Germany in Autumn (1978)
- Heavy Metal (1981)
- Creepshow (1982)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- The Company of Wolves (1984)
- Creepshow 2 (1987)
- New York Stories (1989)
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
- Necronomicon (1993)
- Twenty Bucks (1993)
- Four Rooms (1995)
- Tales from the Hood (1995)
- The Red Violin (1998)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
- Eros (2004)
- Paris, je t'aime (2006)
- Please Do Not Disturb (2010)
- 5 Sundarikal (2013)
- Kerala Cafe (2009)
- Aanum Pennum (2021)
- Solo (2017)
- V/H/S (2012)[1]
- V/H/S/2 (2013)
- V/H/S: Viral (2014)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
- Lust Stories (2018)
- Kathasangama (2019)
- Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)[2]
- V/H/S/94 (2021)
- V/H/S/99 (2022)
- V/H/S/85 (2023)
- Lust Stories 2 (2023)
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References[edit]
- ↑ Smith, Nigel N. (22 January 2012). "Bloody Disgusting Founder and "V/H/S" Producer Brad Miska On Why the Found-Footage Movie Is Here To Stay"". Indiewire. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
- ↑ "Sundance Film Festival Program: "Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia"". Sundance. Retrieved 2022-02-19.