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By Alex Kittle, on April 29th, 2013% 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)
DIRECTED BY: Rob Zombie
FEATURING: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Dee Wallace, Patricia Quinn, Judy Geeson
PLOT: An overnight DJ is drawn into a web of witchcraft when she plays a mysterious record.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s weird, to be sure, but it’s not weird enough to make . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE LORDS OF SALEM (2012)
DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
FEATURING: The citizens of Austin, Texas
PLOT: Slacker spies on the aimless exploits of the slackers of Austin, TX; the camera follows one character for a few minutes, then veers off to chase another through a series of comical, philosophical, and absurd vignettes involving hit-and-run drivers, elderly anarchists and video . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SLACKER (1991)
DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine
FEATURING: Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog, Evan Neumann
PLOT: Scenes from the life of schizophrenic Julien and his bizarre family.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Made between his startling debut Gummo (1997) and his acerbic comeback movie Trash Humpers (2009), Julien Donkey-Boy is the Harmony . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: JULIEN DONKEY-BOY (1999)
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)
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 Alfred Eaker, on January 31st, 2013% The Book of Dallas, Season One is a 10 episode web series from KoldCast TV, where it can be seen in its entirety for free (mature content: language and sex). The series comes from the production team of Joe Atkinson, Jakob Bilinski, and Marx H. Pyle. Atkinson wrote the series in response to a crisis in . . . → Read More: THE BOOK OF DALLAS (2012)
By G. Smalley (366weirdmovies), on January 10th, 2013%
“In my mind, it’s so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious — something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoonfed to you. That’s the beauty of cinema, and it’s hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people’s minds stop working.”–David . . . → Read More: 133. LOST HIGHWAY (1997)
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)
By G. Smalley (366weirdmovies), on November 28th, 2012% DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski
FEATURING: Val Kilmer, Igor Sergeev, Rachel Korine
PLOT: An anthology of three stories: a lecture by an American motivational speaker; a man invents a time machine but can only watch events through someone else’s eyes; and four Poles party in a town that’s been evacuated ahead of . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE FOURTH DIMENSION (2012)
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