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DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel PLOT: Six friends attempt to have dinner together, but repeatedly fail for increasingly bizarre reasons. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A plot so simple it’s barely a plot at all starts out small . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) “[The persona is] a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual… one result of the dissolution of the persona is the release of fantasy—disorientation.”–Carl Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology DIRECTED BY: Ingmar Bergman . . . → Read More: 139. PERSONA (1966) Ai no Mukidashi “Nothing is more important than love.”–Shion Sono on the theme of Love Exposure DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Atsurô Watabe, Makiko Watanabe PLOT: Yu Honda, the son of a Catholic priest, falls in with a gang of upskirt photographers in an attempt to generate sins . . . → Read More: 129. LOVE EXPOSURE (2008) “The Lennon/McCartney songs used in the film seem to have been conceived and brought forth in the pure simple spirit of mystical innocence, like the works of Chagall. And, like Chagall’s works, the film tries to include everything in the world to make up its own cosmos. The animation style ranges from storybook simplicity to . . . → Read More: 128. YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) DIRECTED BY: David Lynch (6 episodes), multiple directors FEATURING: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Marshall, Sheryl Lee, Piper Laurie, Richard Beymer, Mädchen Amick, Eric DaRe, Joan Chen, Jack Nance, Russ Tamblyn, Catherine Coulson, Grace Zabriske, many others PLOT: A mystically-inclined FBI agent investigates a murder in a small . . . → Read More: TWIN PEAKS (TV) (1990-1991) AKA Otto e Mezzo; Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 CLAUDIA: Let’s leave this place. It makes me uneasy. It doesn’t seem real. GUIDO: I really like it. Isn’t that odd? DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini FEATURING: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale, Barbara Steele, Edra Gale PLOT: Full of doubts and very near . . . → Read More: 121. 8 1/2 (1963)  3 comments  Certifed Weird (The List)  1963, Academy Award Winner, Arthouse, Autobiographical, Barbara Steele, Black and White, Criterion collection, Drama, Existential, Federico Fellini, Italian, Marcello Mastroianni, Must see, Nonlinear, Psychological, Reflexive, Stream of consciousness, The creative process, Writer's block AKA Belleville Rendez-vous (UK theatrical release) “Don’t want to end my days in Acapulco Stiff as a board, dancing the tango. I’d love to be twisted, utterly twisted, Twisted like a triplet from Belleville. Swinging Belleville rendez-vous, Marathon dancing doop dee doo. Voodoo can can, balais taboo, Au Belleville swinging rendez-vous…” –English lyrics from . . . → Read More: 118. THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE [LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE] (2003) An Andalusian Dog “No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted… We had to open all doors to the irrational and keep only those images that surprised us, without trying to explain why.”–Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Simone Mareuil, . . . → Read More: 117. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) DIRECTED BY: Drew Goddard FEATURING: Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Anna Hutchison, Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams PLOT: Five college kids find themselves trapped inside an impossibly clichéd horror movie situation at the titular locale; if they somehow manage to survive the redneck zombies, they will still have to worry about the puppetmaster pulling . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012) AKA Sunless “It is tempting, and not unjustified, to speculate that one reason for Marker’s growing visibility and popularity is that, as a culture, we have now finally caught up with works that once seemed like dispatches from another planet…”–Catherine Lupton, “Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle” (2007 Criterion Collection essay) DIRECTED BY: Chris Marker FEATURING: . . . → Read More: 111. SANS SOLEIL (1983) |
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