Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the adventure genre is entirely removed from arthouse as a genre or type of film. The former is all about depicting grand, often epic, and life-changing journeys into unfamiliar territories, while the latter – at least typically – tends to focus more on smaller stories while feeling introspective/psychological, and being made by singular voices while trying to challenge the art form of filmmaking as a whole.
The story of The Fountain spans time, space, and many years, with three different stories that become combined thematically and sometimes visually. At other points, it can be difficult to piece all the different parts of The Fountain together, but it does present spectacle and has a unique visual style, so even if it’s hard to understand the entire thing, it’s likely to make most viewers at least feel something.
Fitzcarraldo can be slow and isn’t as well-assembled as some of Herzog’s smaller films, but the gutsiness to tackle an epic adventure movie in such a way does make the film rewarding and worth seeking out. It’s a wild film, and it’s even wilder to read about its production, or witness it through the also compelling documentary, 1982’s Burden of Dreams.
5 'The Fall' Director: Tarsem Singh If you combined the dark fantasy aspects of Pan’s Labyrinth with the structure of The Princess Bride, and then captured it all with bold, colorful visuals, you’d get something like The Fall. It’s a story within a story, centering on a man telling a young girl a fairytale packed with fantasy and adventure elements, the story itself getting darker as his mood and hope for his own life worsen.
4 'El Topo' Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky does not make films that everyone would enjoy, by any means, and it’s hard to even assess which one of his movies would be the most approachable, because they’re just about all perplexing and disturbing to some extent. El Topo is considered one of his best, though, and manages to be a psychedelic adventure film, a Western, and certainly an arthouse movie, too, all at once.
3 'A Touch of Zen' Director: King Hu Close For a good chunk of its runtime, A Touch of Zen is pretty low on action, especially by martial arts movie standards. Narratively, it focuses on a young woman who’s on the run from a corrupt eunuch and his forces, forcing her to retreat to a remote mountain village, finding a level of peace there before her enemies inevitably catch up with her. At that point, the action kicks off, and it’s all pretty amazing.
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