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“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)
By Cameron Jorgensen, on March 23rd, 2013% Town bad boy, Bill, falls in love with Jane, and all is well until her father, the pastor, curses his ax.
“This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge.”–Alonso, “The Tempest” [V,I]
DIRECTED BY: Peter Greenaway
FEATURING: John Gielgud
PLOT: Prospero, a magician trapped on an island with his daughter and native spirits, conjures . . . → Read More: 140. PROSPERO’S BOOKS (1991)
By Alex Kittle, on March 12th, 2013% DIRECTED BY: Don Coscarelli
FEATURING: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones
PLOT: A young paranormal investigator relates his strange and twisted backstory to a skeptical reporter. It involves alien creatures, a drug that gives its users heightened senses and psychic abilities, and a parallel universe whose . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012)
Ju Ma Pao
DIRECTED BY: Yu Chick-Lim
FEATURING: Polly Kwan (as Sun Kuan Rin Feng), Cheung Lik, Li Chung-Chien, Hsiao Wang
PLOT: A teenage princess learns kung fu so that she can return from exile inside a magic mountain to claim her kingdom from usurpers.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: RETURN OF THE KUNG FU DRAGON (1976)
By G. Smalley (366weirdmovies), on February 20th, 2013% “[Günter Grass] called our [first draft] script ‘Protestant and Cartesian.’ It was lacking the irrational dimension of time, the nodal points where everything becomes confused and collapses in an illogical and tragicomic way. He wants more hard realism on the one hand, and on the other, more courage in the unreal. Imagination as a part . . . → Read More: 137. THE TIN DRUM [DIE BLECHTROMMEL] (1979)
By G. Smalley (366weirdmovies), on February 18th, 2013% 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)
By Alex Kittle, on February 6th, 2013%
“…[a] spontaneous creation without thought to logic, reason or consequences.”–Richard Elfman on Forbidden Zone
DIRECTED BY: Richard Elfman
FEATURING: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Phil Gordon, Matthew Bright (as “Toshiro Baloney”), Viva, Danny Elfman
PLOT: A curious girl wanders into the surreal “Sixth Dimension” located behind a door in her basement. There she . . . → Read More: 135. FORBIDDEN ZONE (1982)
By Cameron Jorgensen, on January 12th, 2013% Gavrilo’s seven-year “labor of insanity” tells the story of Lazar, a man at odds with the legal system for choosing not to remain within the confines of his city wall.
By G. Smalley (366weirdmovies), on December 19th, 2012% “…unique perspectives and self-sufficient lifestyles are sacred things that should be fought for and preserved. So-called ‘eccentrics’ were my earliest heroes, and one of my biggest influences.”–Benh Zeitlin
DIRECTED BY: Benh Zeitlin
FEATURING: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
PLOT: Six-year old Hushpuppy lives with her ailing father Wink in “the Bathtub,” a community that turns . . . → Read More: 132. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012)
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