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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) DIRECTED BY: Chan-wook Park FEATURING: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman PLOT: A girl’s father dies on her 18th birthday; the uncle she never knew she had shows up soon thereafter and installs himself in the isolated house she lives in with her lonely mother. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s not weird . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: STOKER (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) “They are also cunning, humble and light, like flies. Liars, shy but strategic, sinuous, and very capable of weaving clever plots behind men’s backs.”–TV commentator describing red squirrels in a dream in The Red Squirrel DIRECTED BY: Julio Medem FEATURING: Nancho Novo, Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez PLOT: A despondent musician is working up the . . . → Read More: 126. THE RED SQUIRREL [LA ADRILLA ROJA] (1993) “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) “It’s a Polanski movie, and then it becomes a Dario Argento movie. And maybe a little bit of David Cronenberg too.”–Vincent Cassell DIRECTED BY: Darren Aronofsky FEATURING: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder PLOT: Nina, a goody two-shoes ballerina, wants to dance the lead role in a production of “Swan . . . → Read More: 90. BLACK SWAN (2010) DIRECTED BY: Omar Naim FEATURING: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart PLOT: Haunted by the memory of a car crash, a lonely funeral assistant fakes his own death. Tracking a mystery mourner, he finds himself tangled in intrigue while suffering from bizarre, piecemeal flashbacks from his discordant, seemingly supernaturally influenced past. WHY IT WON’T . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DEAD AWAKE (2010) This post was originally lost in the Great Server Crash of 2010; the article was partially recovered from Google cache, and the rest of the text was recreated. Sorry, original comments were irretrievably lost in cyberspace. DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Kasten FEATURING: Andras Jones, Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Beth Bates, Ted Raimi PLOT: Awakening from a . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS (2001) DIRECTED BY: Andrew Shortell FEATURING: Sara Foster, Cary Elwes, Michael Biehn, Gabriel Mann, Ryan James, Colleen Camp PLOT: A records clerk working the graveyard shift in a shut-down hospital has puzzling, ghastly visions that may or may not be connected to a string of murders and her own past. As she strives to interpret . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PSYCH: 9 (2010) DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo FEATURING: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long PLOT: A funeral director must convince an accident victim that she is really dead. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: I took a look at After.Life to determine its weird potential, but aside from the macabre story, I found it be a fairly . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: AFTER.LIFE (2009) |
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