Town bad boy, Bill, falls in love with Jane, and all is well until her father, the pastor, curses his ax.
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DIRECTED BY: Allan Moyle FEATURING: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk, Maggie Castle, Taryn Manning, Jordan Prentice PLOT: Two junkies, who are planning a heist to pay off a mobster, clash with Satanists when they interrupt a ritual while burying an overdosed friend. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Despite sucking up to us . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: WEIRDSVILLE (2007) DIRECTED BY: David Wain FEATURING: Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Ken Marino, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, A.D. Miles, Justin Theroux PLOT: A series of short comedic stories, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It has a few bizarre moments, but The Ten is nowhere near consistently weird enough to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE TEN (2007) DIRECTED BY: Akihiko Shiota FEATURING: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, Kiichi Nakai PLOT: A pickpocket follows a mysterious man on his quest to kill 48 demons—each of who owns one of his body parts. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s an oft-enthralling adventure with a fairy tale flavor, but it’s not strange enough . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DORORO (2007) Lech Majewski’s Glass Lips (2007) debuted as an instillation piece at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It’s original title was Blood of a Poet, paying homage to Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film. Surreal, kaleidoscopic, and predominantly silent, Glass Lips feels like a series of interrelated shorts literally forming a “motion picture.” Sebastien (Patrick Czajka) is the poet . . . → Read More: GLASS LIPS (2007) AKA The Matrimony DIRECTED BY: Hua-Tao Teng FEATURING: Rene Liu, Fan Bingbing, Leon Lai PLOT: The ghost of a woman who died moments before her lover proposed to her contacts his new bride with an offer to help her thaw the heart of the groom who still pines for his lost love. WHY IT . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MATRIMONY [XIN ZHONG YOU GUI] (2007) Eugene Vasiliev is a Doctor of Philosophy and a member of the Russian Guild of Film Critics. This detailed analysis of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Banishment was originally published (in Russian) at Ruskino. The Banishment, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s second feature-length motion picture after triumphing in Venice with The Return (2003), was received coldly by the audience. . . . → Read More: PROFESSOR GIBBERN’S PREPARATION: ANDREI ZVYAGINTSEV’S THE BANISHMENT (2007) Ferrofluid rises and spins hypnotically around two magnetized spiral towers in this ballet of liquid metal. Read the technical details of how they did it here. DIRECTED BY: Carlos Atanes FEATURING: Oriol Aubets, Anthony Blake, Manuel Solás, Abel Folk PLOT: Just as his life seems to be falling apart, aimless sci-fi nerd Tony (Aubets) becomes accidentally entangled with a doomsday cult, a time-traveling conspiracy, and new method of interstellar transportation. Or does he? WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Atanes . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PROXIMA (2007) Having an anthropomorphic slug hop out of your ear certainly reaches towards the top of the weirdness scale. But rowing a boat across your own ear canal? Well, that’s just plain insanity. |
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