AKA The Mole (literal translation)
“Q: You’re creating this story right now.
A: Yes, this very moment. It may not be true, but it’s beautiful.” -Alejandro Jodorowsky in “Conversations with Jodorowsky”
DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Jodorowsky
FEATURING: Alejandro Jodorowsky
PLOT: El Topo, a figure dressed in black and carrying his nude son on horseback behind him, uses his supernatural shooting ability to free a [...]
PLOT: Young-goon, a young woman who believes herself to be a cyborg, and is institutionalized after a gruesome and nearly fatal attempt to recharge her batteries. Among the characters she meets in the mental hospital is Il-soon, a kleptomaniac who steals not only small items, but entire character traits from the other patients. Young-goon enlists Il-soon’s aid to help her [...]
DIRECTED BY: Spike Jonze
FEATURING: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Columbus
PLOT: Adaptation tells two stories: in one, a “New Yorker” journalist (Meryl
Streep) becomes obsessed with the subject of her nonfiction book, a trashy but passionate collector of orchids (Chris Cooper); in the other, a depressed screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) struggles to adapt her book “The Orchid Thief” into [...]
DIRECTED BY: Larry Fessenden
FEATURING: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider
PLOT: Slacker and (barely) functional alcoholic Sam—still smarting from the
recent loss of his father and separation from his live-in girlfriend—finds his health growing worse and worse as he gets more and more involved with a mysterious beautiful woman he meets at a Greenwich Avenue Halloween party.
WHY IT [...]
