A truly excellent documentary regarding the groundbreaking work of Georges Melies who (along with the Lumiere Brothers) provided early cinema with some of its most memorable images. Hollywood contempories like Spielberg and that arse George Lucas are on hand to throw in their two cents, but the film is really about the obsessive nature of a director who played the parts of writer, special effects creator, hand-tinter, backdrop artist, costumier and probably caterer too. A true visionary. The DVD also features 15 pristine prints of some of his work, these being: The Four Troublesome Heads, A Trip to the Moon, The Infernal Cakewalk, The Scheming Gambler's Paradise, The Music Lover, The Infernal Boiling Pot, The Man With The Rubber Head, The Living Playing Cards, Hilarious Posters, The Devilish Tenant, Untameable Whiskers, Imperceptible Transmutations, Bluebeard, Fat and Lean Wrestling Match and The One Man Band.