DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
FEATURING: Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, Catherine Coulson
PLOT: A series of six short films spanning director David Lynch’s career from the
1960s through the 1990s. We track Lynch from his early years as a highly experimental student to a macabre master of the darkly surreal with these films that show a man who [...]
DIRECTED BY: Marina de Van
FEATURING: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker
PLOT: Esther is a nice yuppie girl who enjoys her office job. She also enjoys dismantling
and consuming her own body. After disfiguring her leg in an accident, Esther develops a necrotic fascination with herself and begins to self-mutilate. She engages in auto-cannibalism while [...]
Review writing contest #1 winner, by Pamela De Graff.
DIRECTED BY: Michael Almereyda
FEATURING: Clarence Williams III, David Arquette (who also co-produced), Ally Sheedy, former super model Shalom Harlow, model Gloria Reuben, Karl Geary, rhythm and blues star Ernie K-Doe
PLOT: Happy Here and Now is a surrealistic satire in which a young woman tries [...]
DIRECTED BY: Mark Pellington
FEATURING: Richard Gere
PLOT: A Washington Post reporter loses his wife in an automobile accident,
then finds himself spirited away to a West Virgina town where the residents are spotting monsters and undergoing horrifying precognitive hallucinations.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Not weird enough. Taking its cues from parapsychology and cryptozoology, and positioning itself [...]
DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Sekula
FEATURING: Kari Matchett
PLOT: Just as in the 1997 surprise hit, eight strangers wake up stripped of
their memories in a mysterious, deadly cube composed of indistinguishable rooms–but this second generation “hypercube” has some new tricks to play on its captives.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Cube 2: Hypercube can get pretty weird, especially when [...]
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 [...]
