366 Weird Movies

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Entries Tagged ‘2004’

BORDERLINE WEIRD: CALVAIRE (2004)

[AKA:  The Ordeal]

DIRECTED BY:  Fabrice Du Welz
FEATURING:  Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Brigitte Lahaie
PLOT: Small time entertainer Marc Stevens ventures along a rural route to reach his

next gig, but everything goes profoundly wrong. His car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a stranger takes him to an inn, and he finds himself trapped in a [...]

47. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)

“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it.”-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d …”–Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry
FEATURING: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, [...]

SATURDAY SHORT: HEADLESSNESS (2004)

Black, white, and red all over, Luke Gustafson’s bizarre animated short, “Headlessness” is an astounding treat for the curious eye.  Music by Gustafson’s band, “On To Greatness”.

GUEST REVIEW: JESUS AND HER GOSPEL OF YES (2004)

Guest review by Kevin Pyrtle of WTF-Film
Here in Minneapolis there’s a strange little show [you'll have to forgive me for not remembering the name of it] that plays the public access stations every week or so. It features a host of young talent who frolic in front of a blue screen in various stages [...]

CAPSULE: ELEVATOR MOVIE (2004)

DIRECTED BY:  Zeb Haradon
FEATURING:  Zeb Haradon, Robin Ballard
PLOT:  A socially maladjusted college student and a reformed slut turned Jesus freak are
trapped in an elevator together–impossibly, for weeks on end.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Quite possibly, Elevator Movie will make the overall list of 366 movies; I reserve the right to revisit it in [...]

13. KUNG FU HUSTLE (2004)

AKA Kung Fu, Kung Fu-sion
“It’s good to go over the line.  It’ll be boring if it doesn’t.  Following reality is not refreshing for me.”–Yuen Woo-ping, fight choreographer for Kung Fu Hustle
 
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chow
FEATURING: Stephen Chow, Qui Yuen, Wah Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
PLOT: The Axe Gang, hatchet-wielding hooligans garbed in black-tie evening wear, terrorizes Shanghai in [...]

CAPSULE: CUBE ZERO (2004)

DIRECTED BY: Ernie Barbarash
FEATURING: Zachary Bennet, Stephanie Moore, Michael Riley
PLOT:  Audiences return to the cube from Cube in this prequel, only this time

we see the diabolical prison from the vantage point of its bureaucratic overseers as well as the poor souls trapped inside.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  While the first Cube sequel (Cube 2: Hypercube) [...]