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DIRECTED BY: Shane Carruth FEATURING: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins PLOT: After a man known as the Thief drugs a young woman and steals most of her money, she loses her job and some of her memory, and needs to start an entirely new life; a year . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: UPSTREAM COLOR (2013) DIRECTED BY: Don Coscarelli FEATURING: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones PLOT: A young paranormal investigator relates his strange and twisted backstory to a skeptical reporter. It involves alien creatures, a drug that gives its users heightened senses and psychic abilities, and a parallel universe whose . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012) “…[a] spontaneous creation without thought to logic, reason or consequences.”–Richard Elfman on Forbidden Zone DIRECTED BY: Richard Elfman FEATURING: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Phil Gordon, Matthew Bright (as “Toshiro Baloney”), Viva, Danny Elfman PLOT: A curious girl wanders into the surreal “Sixth Dimension” located behind a door in her basement. There she . . . → Read More: 135. FORBIDDEN ZONE (1982) DIRECTED BY: Panos Cosmatos FEATURING: Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Nory PLOT: Within the depths of a mysterious, retro-utopian health clinic, a troubled psychologist attempts to treat a silent young woman with telekinetic powers, but she keeps trying to escape.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW (2010) AKA Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy “Barbarella, pyschedella, There’s a kind of cockleshell about you…” –Lyrics from Barbarella‘s theme song DIRECTED BY: Roger Vadim FEATURING: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi PLOT: A wide-eyed aviatrix known as Barbarella must travel to the outer reaches of . . . → Read More: 122. BARBARELLA (1968) DIRECTED BY: Benh Zeitlin FEATURING: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Gina Montana, Lowell Landis, Levy Easterly PLOT: A young girl named Hushpuppy lives in an isolated bayou community known as “The
Bathtub”, cut off from the rest of the world by levees. A massive storm destroys much of her . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012) Copie Conforme DIRECTED BY: Abbas Kiarostami FEATURING: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell PLOT: A French antiques dealer and an English author spend a day together in rural Tuscany, discussing (and often fighting about) art, philosophy, and family. As the hours pass it becomes apparent that these supposed strangers . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CERTIFIED COPY (2010) DIRECTED BY: Tak Sakaguchi, Yûdai Yamaguchi FEATURING: Tak Sakaguchi, Shingo Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa, Jun Murakami PLOT: One-man army Shozo is called back from mercenary work in South America after the death of his father, a powerful yakuza boss. He sets out to reclaim control of his gang, eventually joining an experimental government program that . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: YAKUZA WEAPON (2011) DIRECTED BY: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim FEATURING: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly, Twink Caplan, Will Ferrell, William Atherton PLOT: Two filmmakers in debt to their patrons take over management of a run-down shopping mall, hoping to make back the money they owe and lose their fake Hollywood attitudes. WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (2012) This review first appeared in a slightly different form at Film Forager. DIRECTED BY: Takeshi Koike FEATURING: Takuya Kamura, Yû Aoi, Tadanobu Asano PLOT: Set in a distant future and moving between multiple planets, this is a fairly simple tale of a major road race taking place on . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: REDLINE (2009) |
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