Scenic roads dip and rise through the region, past farmhouses huddling on hillsides and half-timbered towns with a rustic, fairy-tale-like prettiness.
Among the other longlisted movies are Tangled - a Disney adaptation of the Rapunzel fairy tale - and the supervillain-based comedy Despicable Me.
Terry Gilliam had a good idea to re-create the origins of the fairy-tale-spinning Brothers Grimm but, as it turns out, the movie is yet another noisy, hyperbolic, digital farce, with people jumping in and out of the frame and turning into corpses and then coming back to life, trees endlessly moving around the woods, and much general tumult, and the movie quickly becomes tedious.
Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.
Where better to mount Stephen Sondheim's fractured-fairy-tale musical than in Central Park's tree-lined amphitheater?
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And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.
In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, "The Lovely Bones" is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens. (There's no indication that Susie gets raped, as she does in the novel, and her murder occurs off screen.) "Atonement's" terrific Ronan, with her astonishing glacier-blue eyes, watches from a scenic afterlife as her father (Mark Wahlberg), mother (Rachel Weisz), younger siblings, and selected friends simultaneously heal from their loss and search for her killer.
If you stop and ponder the late, fairy-tale tech boom of 1995-2000, with its grinning cover boys and girls, chances are you'll remember these glamour-puss CEOs.
So the sailors called it the "Little Golden Fish" - or "Zolotaya Rybka" in Russian - after a magical, fairy-tale fish which makes people's wishes come true.
In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) takes on a fairy-tale quality.
Weddings assume fairy tale-like proportions.
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In the red-ink-drenched biotechnology sector the success of Amgen takes on a fairy-tale quality.
However, Wang's recent announcement has caused speculation as to whether her fairy-tale aesthetic will be affected by her own not-so-happily-ever-after ending.
But Henson almost made it a fairy-tale return, denied a try only by a stunning tackle by Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson.
As in the first two installments of this most lucrative of animated franchises, many of the jokes are media-wise parodies in particular, potshots at such Disney fairy-tale characters as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.
It uses silver light-fixture pull-chains and safety pins, not as embellishment but as structural elements in a fairy-tale transformation.
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The young billionaire brat pack could learn a thing or two from dashing 24-year-old German Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis, who is truly living a near fairy-tale existence.
Fourteen-year-old Paralympian swimmer Eleanor Simmonds said she felt like she was "living in a fairy-tale" on becoming the youngest person ever honoured, made an MBE after winning two golds in the pool in Beijing.
Happily, land unsuitable for ordinary houses often makes the perfect setting for a fairy-tale abode.
The Enchanted Canary, a fairy-tale opera by Noel Scott Stevens, first performed in Tampa, Fla.
Now we can afford a fairy-tale getaway that we'd only dreamed of once upon a time.
Most whimsical of all the structures is the Burg Hohenzollern, which looks like a fairy-tale castle.
First, the retelling of the classic fairy tale is an old-fashioned, hand-drawn 2-D movie.
Yes, his Clearly Timeless collection based on the fairy-tale footwear is being shipped to stores.
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Many Thais will squirm at what follows, and will prefer the fairy-tale version of the king's story.
The city always had a fairy-tale aspect, but until the seventeenth century its irreality was checked by an appetite for business.
The apparent fascination could stretch back into ancient folklore, says Prof Jack Zipes, a leading scholar of fairy-tale studies.
But it seems a tough way to recapture childhood thrills and besides, many modern stagings sternly eschew the fairy-tale elements.
Baccheschi Berti and his wife, Aurora, preside over one of the more eccentric and thoroughgoing fairy-tale environments you will ever rent a night in.
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