Rabbit Season
Or "Rabbits in Film".
From the innocent and fluffy (Thumper) to the enigmatic and menacing (Frank from "Donnie Darko"); from smart and sassy (Bugs) to weird and wonderful (Rabbit ears boy in "Gummo"!) - the humble bunny has been in our movie psyche since the first one popped out of the first movie magician's hat.
The humble bunny has reflected man's inhumanity to man ("Watership Down"), symbolised his innocence, pure and tainted ("Harvey", "Sexy Beast"), and just given us a few good laughs along the way ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Raising Arizona").
Lest we forget their valuable and long-eared contribution to movie magic.
Pictured: One freaky rabbit in "Donnie Darko".
El Topo (1971)
7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky
Aka "The Mole." "I ask of film what most North Americans' ask of psychedelic drugs" said Writer, Director and star Alexandro Jodorowsky of this stunni... Read more
The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky: Fando Y Lis / El Topo / The Holy Mountain / La Constellation Jodorowsky (1968)
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky
One of cinema's most controversial and influential filmmakers, this collection features three of his early films including 'Fando Y Lis' (1968) - His... Read more
Alice In Wonderland (1966)
7.2/10
Director: Jonathan Miller
Starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Peter Cook, John Gielgud, Leo McKern, Michael Redgrave, Peter...
Lewis Carroll's classic children's story has long proved fertile ground for Freudian analysis, surrealists, social historians, literary critics and fi... Read more
And God Created Woman (1956)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand
Brigitte Bardot's best known film. She plays a man teasing 18-year-old whose lustful encounters with the irresistible opposite sex are enacted out ami... Read more
Alice in Wonderland (Disney) (1951)
6.5/10
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Sterling Holloway
Disney animation based on the Lewis Carroll favourite. Join Alice as she falls into the wild world of Wonderland and meets extraordinary characters su... Read more
Harvey (1950)
8/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horn
This beloved comedy stars James Stewart as a good-hearted inebriate whose constant companion is a six foot, invisible rabbit named Harvey that only he... Read more
Song of the South (1946)
7.3/10
Director: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Starring: Ruth Warrick, James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll
A lonely misunderstood little boy living on a plantation in the old South, finds his only happiness in the tales spun by Uncle Remus. A superb blend o... Read more
Bambi (1942)
7.3/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Bambi, Thumper
The Disney crew worked for four years to animate Felix Salten's woodland tale, resulting in some of the studio's most memorable characters (young fawn... Read more
The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more