“I have a lovely memory of my producer, Claudie Ossard, who came to see us in these sewers. She’d come in Chanel suits and high heels. It was surreal to see her among these Troglodists dripping in oil.”–Jean-Pierre Jeunet
DIRECTED BY: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
FEATURING: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Howard Vernon
PLOT: In [...]
Here’s what’s coming up on the site next week…
Reviews of the Jeunet/Caro weird cannibalism black comedy Delicatessen and “Weird Al” Yankovic’s cult star vehicle, UHF.
Alfred Eaker will be finishing up his series on the westerns of Budd Boetticher with Comanche Station.
The winner of the review writing contest will be announced on Friday, Sep. 4. [...]
Our second Saturday Short installment is from a fan of our site, Sean McHenry, director and editor of Deep Blue Edit. Unlike my last post, “One Pill” is much more what you’d expect a short film to be; quiet, yet profound. I believe Sean’s caption says it best:
“If One Pill could repair a [...]
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons…
Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links.
IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):
Orgies and the Meaning of Life (2008): The story of a man living inside his own head and fantasizing about orgies, all while writing a novel [...]
Ride Lonesome (1959) was the first of Boetticher’s “Ranown” cycle to utilize the new CinemaScope process, and it does so impressively. The rich color and expressionist framing of desert canyon rock would only be topped in the series’ final entry, Comanche Station. Most fans of the cycle consider Ride Lonesome the best entry. While that remains [...]
AKA Bram Stoker’s Dracula
DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
FEATURING: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Tom Waits
PLOT: Vlad Dracula, a defender of Christendom against invading Muslims, curses God
and becomes undead when his beloved bride throws herself from the castle walls due to false reports of his death sent by Turkish spies; centuries later, he [...]
DIRECTED BY: Chan-wook Park
FEATURING: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang
PLOT: A drunk Dae-su Oh is seized off the streets and imprisoned for years in a private
apartment without any explanation; when he is just as mysteriously released, his former captor toys with him, giving him clues to help Dae-su track him down and, more importantly, discover [...]
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Sayadian [AKA Rinse Dream]
FEATURING: Madeleine Reynal, Laura Albert, John Durbin
PLOT: The granddaughter of Dr. Caligari (of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame) performs
illicit neurological experiments on patients in her asylum, focusing especially on a nymphomaniac and a shock-therapy addicted cannibal.
WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: This is a good time to explain that the category “Borderline [...]
Just a reminder of what’s going on with the site…
First, we hope you liked the first in what we hope will be a long-running feature… the Saturday Short, where we plan to feature a new short film (usually by an up and coming filmmaker) weekly! Please welcome Cameron Jorgensen, who has graciously agreed to [...]
“Saturday Short” (suggestions on a better title are welcome) is a new feature where we’ll be featuring a new (to us), full-length, weird short every Saturday. Shorts are selected by our new “shorts editor” Cameron Jorgensen.
This stop-motion animation by David Firth is just over a year old. David found a lot of the props he uses [...]
