“…Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children’s literature to the screen. Plunging headfirst into history, myth, legend, and fairy tale, Gilliam sends his characters—a boy and six good-natured if rather larcenous little persons (i.e. seven dwarves)—careening through time-twisting interactions with Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Agamemnon (played, respectively, by Ian Holm, John Cleese, and [...]
AKA It Happened in Your Neighborhood
DIRECTED BY: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
FEATURING: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux
PLOT: A documentary crew follows a serial killer around on his daily rounds, becoming
more and more complicit in his crimes as he slowly charms them, and eventually finances completion of the film with the money he steals from his [...]
“We hoped for the look of a Bergman film and the feel of Cocteau.”–variously attributed to screenwriter John Clifford or director Herk Harvey
DIRECTED BY: Herk Harvey
FEATURING: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger
PLOT: Mary Henry, a church organist, is the lone survivor of an accident when the car she’s riding in plunges over the side of an old wooden [...]
“I hate doing this to a beautiful woman.” -Attributed to cameraman Gil Taylor during the filming of Repulsion
DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
FEATURING: Catherine Deneuve
PLOT: At first glance, manicurist Carole (Catherine Deneuve) seems merely to be painfully shy. The early portions of the film follow her in her daily routine, and we grow to realize that her [...]
