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DIRECTED BY: Shane Carruth FEATURING: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins PLOT: After a man known as the Thief drugs a young woman and steals most of her money, she loses her job and some of her memory, and needs to start an entirely new life; a year . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: UPSTREAM COLOR (2013) “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;– Turn wheresoe’er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen . . . → Read More: 141. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1966) A small series of events leaves three strangers drifting on a train they don’t recall boarding.
Valerie a Týden Divu “…one of those haunting, dream-like films that once seen is difficult to forget.”–Tanya Krzywinska DIRECTED BY: Jaromil Jires FEATURING: Jaroslava Schallerova, Petr Kopriva, Helena Anyzova, Jiri Prymek, Jan Klusák PLOT: Young Valerie lives in a farmhouse on the edge of a small town with her Granny. She flirts with “Eagle,” a boy . . . → Read More: 136. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970) Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra; AKA The Hour-glass Sanitorium; The Sandglass DIRECTOR: Wojciech Has FEATURING: Jan Nowicki, Jozef Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska, Gustaw Holoubek, Ludwik Benoit, Mieczyslaw Voit
PLOT: Adapted from several stories by Bruno Schulz, the movie follows Joseph (Nowicki) as he travels by train to a sanitarium to see . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (1973) DIRECTED BY: Sang-soo Hong FEATURING: Jun-Sang Yu, Bo-kyung Kim, Sang Jung Kim PLOT: A director who no longer makes movies arrives in Seoul to touch bases with an old friend; he gets drunk, meets various acquaintances and colleagues, and then situations start to repeat themselves, with variations. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE DAY HE ARRIVES (2011) Souvenirs de la Maison Close; AKA L’Apollonide; House of Tolerance DIRECTED BY: Bertrand Bonello FEATURING: Alice Barnole, Hafsia Herzi, Iliana Zabeth, Noémie Lvovsky, Xavier Beauvois PLOT: This drama follows the travails of a group of prostitutes in a belle epoque bordello. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: House of Pleasures sports a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: HOUSE OF PLEASURES (2011) AKA Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream One Calls Human Life “We wanted to give both the banal side of being a student and the magical side of passing through a blackboard. So you have extremes from the banality to the imaginary, and that was part of the voyage that we created in this film.”–The . . . → Read More: 127. INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA, OR THIS DREAM PEOPLE CALL HUMAN LIFE (1995) DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola FEATURING: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin, Joanne Whalley, Alden Ehrenreich, David Paymer, Don Novello, Anthony Fusco, Tom Waits PLOT: Horror writer Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) is in decline, hacking out formulaic product and going on book tours to nowhere places, like the town of Swan Valley. . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: TWIXT (2011) To the alternative cineaste, Doris Wishman is somewhat akin to what Mary, the Mother of Christ, is to Catholics. She was a considerable influence on luminaries such as John Waters, Roger Corman, and Quentin Tarantino. Like them, Wishman approached genre films with an idiosyncratic enthusiasm for the art and the business. Her films are sexploitation roughies, nudie-cuties, . . . → Read More: BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (1965) |
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