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DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle FEATURING: James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel PLOT: After torture fails, gangsters hire a hypnotherapist to help their amnesiac comrade remember where he hid a stolen painting, but can they trust her not to play with the subject’s mind? WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s watchable and a little . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TRANCE (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) “Do not demystify. When you know too much, you can never see the film the same way again. It’s ruined for you for good. All the magic leaks out, and it’s putrefied.”–David Lynch, explaining to Terrence Rafferty why he will not record director’s commentaries DIRECTED BY: David Lynch FEATURING: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, . . . → Read More: 97. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) DIRECTED BY: Tony Krantz FEATURING: Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, Sam Elliot, Robert Maillet, Autumn Reeser, William Fichtner, Jimmi Simpson, Snoop Dogg PLOT: An L.A. private eye goes looking for a missing stripper and uncovers a twisted plot involving the Russian mob, stolen diamonds, and the search for the God particle. WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE BIG BANG (2011) DIRECTED BY: Nikos Nikolaidis FEATURING: Meredyth Herold, Michele Valley, Panos Thanassoulis PLOT: An alcoholic detective searches for a lost love, presumably dead, and ends up a captive of two psychotic women. The women (a mother and daughter) ceaselessly torture the helpless and incapacitated victim. He remains mute as they participate in bizarre sexual . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: SINGAPORE SLING [Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma] (1990) DIRECTED BY: Henrik Rubin Genz FEATURING: Jakob Cedergren, Kim Bodnia, Lene Maria Christiansen PLOT: After a mysterious nervous breakdown, city cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is re-assigned to a claustrophobically small, rural town as its only marshal. He quickly discovers the town’s frightful dynamic: its inhabitants all aware of resident bully Jørgen’s (Kim Bodnia) . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TERRIBLY HAPPY [FRYGTELIG LYKKELIG] (2008) DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan FEATURING: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano PLOT: A man suffering from an inability to form short term memories hunts for his wife’s murderer, relying on notes he leaves himself and important facts he tattoos on his body. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It isn’t weird. Other than . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MEMENTO (2000) DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Alter FEATURING: Anton Pardoe, Roselyn Sanchez, Patrick Bauchau PLOT: In a dark, nameless city, a man must return to a city in which he is despised to save the life of “the one who got away.” He must travel to the rotten heart of this noirish nightscape to get her . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE PERFECT SLEEP (2009) DIRECTED BY: Thomas Jane FEATURING: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Laurie German PLOT: Two blissful newlyweds driving back home from their wedding in Las Vegas Vegas hit a man in the middle of the road. He lives, but the couple finds he is not all that he seems, and are forced to take drastic . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: DARK COUNTRY (2009) DIRECTED BY: Alan Parker FEATURING: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet 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. . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ANGEL HEART (1987) |
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