“I think the movie is fun. It has a lot of serious emotional stuff in it, but it’s funny in a weird way. You don’t have to worry, ‘What does the burning house mean?’ Who cares. It’s a burning house that someone lives in—it’s funny.”–Director/writer Charlie Kaufman
DIRECTED BY: Charlie Kaufman
FEATURING: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, [...]
“In BEGOTTEN, a time is depicted that predates spoken language; communication is made on a sensory level.”–E. Elias Merhige
DIRECTED BY: E. Elias Merhige
FEATURING: Actors from the experimental theater group Theater of Material
PLOT: A man sitting in a chair disembowels himself with a straight razor. A woman materializes from underneath his bloody robes, and impregnates herself [...]
DIRECTED BY: Sam Raimi
FEATURING: Alison Lohman, Lorna Raver
PLOT: Seeking a promotion, a cute and kind-hearted loan officer decides to get tough
with the wrong customer, denying a mortgage extension to an elderly gypsy woman who curses her with a demon that will torment her for three days before dragging her to hell.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE [...]
“This fearful worm would often feed on cows and lamb and sheep,
And swallow little babes alive when they lay down to sleep,
So John set out and got the beast and cut it into halves,
And that soon stopped it eating babes and sheep and lambs and calves.”
–Lyrics to “The D’Ampton Worm” from Lair of [...]
DIRECTED BY: Julio Medem
FEATURING: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri
PLOT: Lucia, a waitress, falls in love with Lorenzo, a young novelist with a secret in his
past; their passionate love story is intertwined with dramatized scenes from Lorenzo’s novel, with it largely left to the viewer to decide what is “real” and what is “fiction.”
WHY IT WON’T MAKE [...]
DIRECTED BY: Goran Dukic
FEATURING: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits
PLOT: In a special afterlife reserved for suicides, three lost souls hit the road: Zia is
searching for his earthly lover, Mikal is convinced she’s here by mistake and is looking for the People in Charge, and Eugene is along for the ride because he has [...]
Gretchen: “You’re weird.”
Donnie: “Sorry.”
Gretchen: “No, it was a compliment.”
(Theatrical Cut)
(Director’s Cut)
DIRECTED BY: Richard Kelly
FEATURING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnel, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore, Kathryn Ross
PLOT: Troubled teen Donnie sees visions of a six foot tall demonic bunny rabbit named Frank, who demands that commits acts of vandalism in a sleepy suburban town in 1988. Donnie narrowly [...]
PLOT: 1950s private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a suave,
sartorial client (Robert DeNiro) to track down a crooner; as the search takes him from Harlem to New Orleans, Angel finds that every lead he interviews ends up dead.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: With its (sometimes literally) dripping atmosphere, mysterious dreamlike flashbacks, [...]
AKA A Venezia… un dicembre rosso shocking
DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Roeg
FEATURING: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
PLOT: John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) lose their daughter in a freak drowning accident. Life goes on, however, and they travel to Venice as planned, where John is directing the restoration of a Gothic cathedral. While there, they [...]
