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366 Underground is an occasional feature that looks at the weird world of contemporary low- and micro-budget cinema, the underbelly of independent film. DIRECTED BY: Aramis Sartorio FEATURING: Aramis Sartorio, Caleb Emerson, Vincent Cusimano, Kimberly Kane, Camilla Lim, Karen Sartorio, Gia Paloma PLOT: Struggling actor Tommy Pistol isn’t much of a success, but he . . . → Read More: 366 UNDERGROUND: THE GRUESOME DEATH OF TOMMY PISTOL (2011) “I think that within human nature, and within the human heart as well, there are a ton of absurd impulses and instincts. But you can’t express those things because society has created these rules that say that things can’t ‘warp’ like that. It’s a rule that maintains a sense of balance in the world. But . . . → Read More: 82. PAPRIKA (2006) DIRECTED BY: Darren Aronofsky FEATURING: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder PLOT: A shy up-and-coming ballet dancer lands the lead in a production of “Swan Lake.” Obsessed with perfection and paranoid that the dual role will be taken away from her, she struggles to become both the virginal White . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: BLACK SWAN (2010) DIRECTED BY: Dave McKean FEATURING: Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon PLOT: A bratty teenager who works as a juggler in her parents’ circus is transported to a devious world of her own imagination after her mother falls ill. With the help of a cowardly juggler, she navigates a crumbling surrealistic city where . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MIRRORMASK (2005) DIRECTED BY: Emir Kusturica FEATURING: Johnny Depp, Lili Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Gallo, Jerry Lewis PLOT: Axel is a fish-tagger who reluctantly moves to Arizona to help his uncle run a car dealership; there, he becomes romantically entangled with an emotionally unstable older woman and her suicidal stepdaughter. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: ARIZONA DREAM (1993) Mrs. Miroux: “So, what did you think?” Stephanie: “I adore it!” Mrs. Miroux: “Really? I’ve always found it rather strange.” Stephanie: “That’s what’s good.” DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry FEATURING: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat PLOT: Stephane is a young artist and inventor from Mexico, a man who has always had trouble distinguishing dreams . . . → Read More: 66. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP [La science des rêves] (2006) DIRECTED BY: Samuel Bayer FEATURING: Clancy Brown, Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara PLOT: A group of high school students share dreams of a burned, claw-handed man named Fred Krueger. As the students begin to die in dramatic ways, the survivors discover that they share a past of secret abuse at the hands . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010) DIRECTED BY: William Malone FEATURING: Dylan Purcell, Cherilyn Wilson, Jeffrey Combs PLOT: A young woman named Laura suffering from Klein-Levin Syndrome falls prey to the mental control of a mesmeric killer, Byron Volpe. A young man named Danny happens upon Laura at the hospital and kidnaps her to try and save her from . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PARASOMNIA (2008) DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan FEATURING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao PLOT: Cobb (DiCaprio), a mercenary with a unique skill—breaking into targets’ subconsciouses as they dream in order to steal business secrets—assembles a team to enter the mind of an heir to a . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: INCEPTION (2010) 42Below Vodka came up with a rather ingenious way to promote their product. Rather than sticking to the silly beer commercials we’re accustomed to seeing during Monday Night Football, they paid forty-two directors to each make a forty-two second short relating to dreams, and, to our delight, they all seem to be at least a . . . → Read More: SATURDAY SHORT: ONEDREAMRUSH (2009) |
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