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Tôkyô Zankoku Keisatsu “She is the only actress in the world who can look so beautiful just standing in the midst of a gushing spray of blood.”–Yoshihiro Nishimura on Eihi Shiina “I wouldn’t say I liked being covered in blood… [but] I really love the surrealism and beauty of these scenes, while I’m getting covered . . . → Read More: 142. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) Bela Tarr’s Satantango (1994) is a seven and half hour long, glacially paced, acerbic adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s novel. It is the second of four films in which Tarr has collaborated with Krasznahraki as writer, beginning with Damnation (1988) and most recently The Turin Horse (2011). Tarr is frequently and aptly compared to Andrei Tarkovsky. Like Tarkovsky, Tarr’s films . . . → Read More: SATANTANGO (1994) AKA The Incredible Torture Show DIRECTED BY: Joel Reed FEATURING: Seamus O’Brien, Luis de Jesus PLOT: A sadist who runs a Grand Guignol off-off-Broadway show as a cover for his white slavery ring kidnaps a theater critic and a ballerina to design his greatest production yet. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: I . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976) DIRECTED BY: Bryan Buckley (“Asad”), Shawn Christensen (“Curfew”), Yan England (“Henry”), Sam French (“Buzkashi Boys”), Tom Van Avermaet (“Death of a Shadow”) FEATURING:Gérard Poirier, Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Matthias Schoenaerts, Harun Mohammed, Fawad Mohammadi, Jawanmard Paiz PLOT: Five short stories (each approximately 20 minutes long): a dead soldier works for a shadow collector in the afterlife, an . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (LIVE ACTION) (2012) Otesánek; AKA Greedy Guts “I do not work with intentions… That has nothing to do with freedom of the imagination… My preference is certainly for subsequent interpretation rather than intention. In Little Otik, the child devours its ‘parents.’ Otik is the product of their desire, their rebellion against nature. This is not a child in . . . → Read More: 125. LITTLE OTIK (2000) 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) “Michele Soari gave me the script. At first I didn’t understand anything, because it was really strange. It’s a horror movie, it’s a sex movie, it was really strange…”–Anna Falchi DIRECTED BY: Michele Soavi FEATURING: Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi, François Hadji-Lazaro PLOT: Together with his nearly-mute associate Gnaghi, Francesco Dellamorte is a groundskeeper at . . . → Read More: 114. CEMETERY MAN [DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE] (1994) “The pandemonium of everyone, everywhere suddenly declaring all at once ‘and I too was molested by my father, or my mother; I too have recovered memories which have basically obliterated my chances of any kind of comfortable adult sexuality’—it seemed at that moment almost unthinkable to slant a movie—even going back into the German romantic . . . → Read More: 113. CAREFUL (1992) DIRECTED BY: Todd Solondz FEATURING: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sharon Wilkins PLOT: A teenager falls in with a group of anti-abortionists in her quest to become pregnant. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: As if the plot isn’t off-beat enough, Palindromes‘s teenage porotagonist is played by a variety of actors of . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: PALINDROMES (2004) “Christ, kid, yer a weirdo!”–Pop DIRECTED BY: Rolf de Heer FEATURING: Nicholas Hope, Carmel Johnson, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill PLOT: With only a rudimentary vocabulary but a gift for mimicry, middle-aged Bubby has been raised by his mentally ill, abusive mother with no knowledge of the outside world inside what is essentially a fallout shelter. . . . → Read More: 108. BAD BOY BUBBY (1993) |
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