DIRECTED BY: Koen Mortier
FEATURING: Dries Van Hegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck
PLOT: A writer agrees to become the drummer for a band formed by trio of handicapped
lowlifes to win a Belgian battle of the bands; he ends up manipulating them into destruction.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: With it’s inverted skinhead and brief tour [...]
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: Spike Jonze
FEATURING: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Columbus
PLOT: Adaptation tells two stories: in one, a “New Yorker” journalist (Meryl
Streep) becomes obsessed with the subject of her nonfiction book, a trashy but passionate collector of orchids (Chris Cooper); in the other, a depressed screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) struggles to adapt her book “The Orchid Thief” into [...]
