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DIRECTED BY: Pater Sparrow FEATURING: Zoltán Mucsi, László Sinkó, Vica Kerekes, Pál Mácsai PLOT: When all the rare books in a bookstore are mysteriously replaced by an anonymous book titled “1,” the “Reality Defense Council” steps in to investigate. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: 1 aggressively aligns itself with the irrational by . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: 1 (2009) DIRECTED BY: Pier Paolo Pasolini FEATURING: Terence Stamp, Laura Betti, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Anne Wiazemsky PLOT: A mysterious guest sleeps with every member of a wealthy household, and when he leaves they come to strange, mostly tragic ends. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Mainly on the strength and . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: TEOREMA (1968) DIRECTED BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder FEATURING: Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau PLOT: A computer programmer assigned to run a virtual reality world after his superior goes insane finds himself paranoid about the motives of his government bosses, and wonders if someone else might ultimately be behind the project. WHY IT MIGHT . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: WORLD ON A WIRE (1973) DIRECTED BY: Hollis Frampton FEATURING: N/A PLOT: The prologue is a reading from the “Bay State Primer.” The main body of the film cycles through one second shots of signs each beginning with a successive letter of the Roman alphabet; each letter is gradually removed and replaced by a scene of waves or grain or . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ZORNS LEMMA (1970) 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) Note: In the third reader’s choice poll, 366 readers voted to make La Jetée a candidate for the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies ever made; we’ve upgraded its status accordingly. DIRECTED BY: Chris Marker FEATURING: Jean Négroni (narrator), Davos Hanich, Hélène Chatelain (models) PLOT: After World War III, a man is trained . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LA JETÉE (1962) “I fear that in the speech which I am about to make, instead of others laughing with me, which is to the manner born of our muse and would be all the better, I shall only be laughed at by them… the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were . . . → Read More: 107. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) “If the cosmic astronaut god-baby at the end of ’2001′ could come back to Earth and make a movie? It would pretty much be ‘Tree of Life.’”–Film critic Andrew O’Hehir after the Cannes screening of Tree of Life (via Twitter) “If you didn’t care for Tree of Life then genetically you are not a human . . . → Read More: 99. THE TREE OF LIFE (2011) Heart of a Dog[1] The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Michail Bulgakov gave birth to a new biological species: the “dog-man” Sharikov[2]. The Internet revolution of the 21st century gave birth to the “Anonymous Man.” The Anonymous Man is a crafty creature who is almost as clever as a dog. The Anonymous Man has . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ELENA (2011) “”This exploration of the unreliability of reality and the power of the human unconscious, this great examination of the limits of rationalism and the perverse power of even the most ill-fated love, needs to be seen as widely as possible before it’s transformed by Steven Soderbergh and James Cameron into what they ludicrously threaten will . . . → Read More: 95. SOLARIS [SOLYARIS] (1972) |
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