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DIRECTED BY: Errol Morris FEATURING: Dave Hoover, Rodney Brooks, Ray Mendez, George Mendonça PLOT: A documentary profiling an unlikely quartet of individuals: a lion tamer, a topiary master, a naked mole-rat expert, and a robot designer. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Four mildly eccentric characters don’t qiute add up to one weird movie. COMMENTS: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL (1997) “In my mind, it’s so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious — something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoonfed to you. That’s the beauty of cinema, and it’s hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people’s minds stop working.”–David . . . → Read More: 133. LOST HIGHWAY (1997) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Alexandra Pic, Isabelle Teboul, Bernard Charnacé PLOT: Two eternally reborn vampire girls who are blind during the day but see at night pose as orphans and are adopted by an eye doctor who believes he can cure them. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Two Orphan Vampires is a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (1997) DIRECTED BY: Roberta Torre FEATURING: Ciccio Guarino, Mimma De Rosalia PLOT: The movie tells the story of the life and death of Palermo mafioso Tano Guarrasi—and of the newfound freedom of his four ugly sisters who stayed spinsters because no man was brave enough to marry them—in song and dance. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: TO DIE FOR TANO [TANO DA MORIRE] (1997) DIRECTED BY: Michael Haneke FEATURING: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski PLOT: Held captive by two charming but very twisted psychopaths, a family tries to outwit them as they are forced to play sick parlor games. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Funny Games is a more substantial captive torment tale . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: FUNNY GAMES (1997) DIRECTED BY: Kiyoshi Kurosawa FEATURING: Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara PLOT: A detective with a mentally ill wife seeks to solve a series of murders committed by ordinary people, each of whom has come into contact with a strange, amnesiac man. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: There’s no doubt Cure is a weird one, what . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: CURE (1997) DIRECTED BY: Gregg Araki FEATURING: James Duval, Rachel True PLOT: Shallow L.A. teenagers take drugs and have kinky sex all day in preparation for the party of the year, while a rubber alien reptile occasionally stalks and abducts them. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: As an attempt at a contemporary update of Repo . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: NOWHERE (1997) “When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo, it knocked me off my chair.”–Werner Herzog DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine FEATURING: Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Reynolds, non-professionals chosen for their freakish looks PLOT: A tornado devastated the town of Xenia, Ohio in the 1970s. Twenty years later, a teenager (Tummler) and a younger . . . → Read More: 20. GUMMO (1997) DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin FEATURING: Alice Krige, Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin PLOT: A prisoner returns to his childhood home on an ostrich farm in a mythical northern land during the constant daylight of the summer season, where he becomes involved with two mysterious women. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997) |
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