DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
FEATURING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
PLOT: A U.S. Marshall with a tragic past investigates a mysterious disappearance at an
asylum for the criminally insane on a craggy, isolated Massachusetts island in the 1950s.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Scorsese sprinkles a few flakes of weirdness into his mainstream thriller for [...]
“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it.”-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d …”–Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry
FEATURING: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, [...]
DIRECTED BY: Rian Johnson
FEATURING: Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi
PLOT: Bloom is the passive brother floating in the wake of his older sibling Stephen, a
Dostoevsky among con-men, who devises one last elaborate grift to rip-off a pretty, rich and very eccentric widow.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Quirky, not weird. For the [...]
