DIRECTED BY: Takashi Miike
FEATURING: Ken’ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô, Fujiko
PLOT: A bizarrely dysfunctional Japanese family—dad is a TV reporter on haitus after
being sodomized by interviewees on camera, mom is a heroin addict and part-time hooker, son is bullied at school and beats his mother at home—becomes even stranger and more antisocial [...]
“Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.”–George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
FEATURING: Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy
PLOT: An unnamed young man appears to be drifting from dream to dream, each animated in a different style. His dreams involve him talking to various college [...]
AKA Intact
DIRECTED BY: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
FEATURING: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Max von Sydow
PLOT: In a world where the power of luck is real and spread unequally, fortune’s
favorites square off against each other in a series of secret tournaments, sometimes for mortal stakes.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: A weird kernel of an [...]
DIRECTED BY: Julio Medem
FEATURING: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri
PLOT: Lucia, a waitress, falls in love with Lorenzo, a young novelist with a secret in his
past; their passionate love story is intertwined with dramatized scenes from Lorenzo’s novel, with it largely left to the viewer to decide what is “real” and what is “fiction.”
WHY IT WON’T MAKE [...]
Thomas Pynchon: A Journey into the Mind of P, directed and produced by the brothers Fosco and Donatello Dubini, is not so much a documentary as it is a homage to that legendary recluse of post modern literature, who wrote books such as “V” and “Gravity’s Rainbow.”
The film is broken down into four appropriate sections: “Paranoia,” “Disappearance,” [...]
Gretchen: “You’re weird.”
Donnie: “Sorry.”
Gretchen: “No, it was a compliment.”
(Theatrical Cut)
(Director’s Cut)
DIRECTED BY: Richard Kelly
FEATURING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnel, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore, Kathryn Ross
PLOT: Troubled teen Donnie sees visions of a six foot tall demonic bunny rabbit named Frank, who demands that commits acts of vandalism in a sleepy suburban town in 1988. Donnie narrowly [...]
