J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor (1965)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This is Jan Svankmajer's second film. It's a short that consists of a man playing a piece by Bach as various things around the organ move about on their own. It's filmed in black and white. But unlike later films by the master stop-motion artist, the things that move or seem to move are very mundane...such as doors or stones or holes opening up in the walls. I noticed state some felt this was a masterpiece, but frankly, I think his later stuff is so much better...and often creepier. This one isn't nearly as weird nor as interesting. For Svankmajer fans, it's definitely one to see but the man would definitely go on to better things.

Hey, I like abstract art. I like it a lot. I've done it, too. I preface my short review with those remarks because I didn't care for the film, and it had nothing to do with appreciating abstract art. Yeah, I know the filmmaker Jan Svankmejer was showing these house objects to the music....but that doesn't make it entertaining. Yeah, I noticed the textures and the shapes. Sometimes "arty" material is vastly overrated as well as underrated.With motion films, I am of the opinion that if it's boring and the audience is snoring in their seats, it's not good entertainment.....and entertainment is what the movies are about. Looking at stone walls, metal objects on the outside of the old house, doors and windows, etc., all to Bach's number was kind of cool for a couple of minutes. After that: b-o-r-i-n-g, and please don't give me the "you didn't get it" reply.

This movie is magnificent, inspiring, and very creative. Outside of narrative constructs, this movie deals with tone... tone described in the breaking and fragmented walls of some mysterious apartment.Architecture itself has been described by some as "frozen music", so this presents a sort of inverse relationship: music as melting architecture. What I find great about it, though, is that the grain and the grittiness of the walls fits perfectly with the tone of the song. Svankmajer has opened up an association with a famous composition into his own defined and bordered world--something an animator would be more prone to do, and a puppet master would know all about.--PolarisDiB

This stunning short, in black and white and shot in widescreen is one of the best examples of the marriage of film and sound , the sounds affecting the images with bass and tibre. The man who plays the organ seems to literally bring the house down and walls open up and close , breath and moves as if the music has given them life. Simply superb.