Alluring, confounding and fully sui generis, the veteran animators' first feature in 20 years is better described than deconstructed, and probably better seen than described. Gorgeously antique-style ...

Two decades after their last feature film, the Brothers Quay have returned to theaters with another adaptation of the work of Polish author Bruno Schulz. Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass ...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 BFI London coverage. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass opens in theaters on August 29. ... One of the most rewarding things ...

“AN ABSOLUTE MASTERWORK… My jaw dropped at the sheer spectacle (in glorious—and I mean glorious—color) spread across the screen” – If You Want the Gravy The Hourglass Sanatorium is not available on ...

Animation veterans Stephen and Timothy Quay return to feature films — and to the works of Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz — with Venice premiere “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.” They ...

Directed by Wojciech Has, this 1973 Polish drama combines elements from the life and fiction of author Bruno Schultz into a dark fantasy about a man visiting his father in a sanatorium. In Polish, ...

In a mixture of live action and breathtakingly intricate stop-motion puppetry, the Quays follow the journey of Josef, who arrives at a labyrinthine sanatorium in search of his dying father. Told in ...

Time, space and mortality work to no earthly schedule in the half-lit, hand-made twilight world of “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass” — so it’s appropriate that this vertiginous stop-motion ...

In a mixture of live action and breathtakingly intricate stop-motion puppetry, the Quays follow the journey of Josef, who arrives at a labyrinthine sanatorium in search of his dying father. Told in ...

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run ...