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“[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) DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe Capotondi FEATURING: Ksenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Fausto Russo Alesi PLOT: After surviving a gunshot wound to the head, a woman is haunted by apparitions of the dead and visions from what seem to be an alternate, but parallel version of her life. WHY IT SHOULD . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: THE DOUBLE HOUR (2009) “When was the last time a gynecologist was in a movie, even as a figure of fun? There’s something taboo there; something strange and difficult.”–David Cronenberg DIRECTED BY: David Cronenberg FEATURING: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold PLOT: Elliot and Beverly Mantle are brilliant twin gynecologists, specializing in fertility, with a client base of rich women. . . . → Read More: 124. DEAD RINGERS (1988) DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin FEATURING: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Louis Negin, Brooke Palsson, David Wontner, Udo Kier PLOT: Gangster Ulysses journeys through his immense mansion searching for his wife who is hiding on the top floor; along the way he uncovers tragic family memories. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: It’s got Loius Negin . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: KEYHOLE (2011) 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 “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) “By the end, the real and imaginary fuse; for me they form the same thing.”–Luis Buñuel on Belle de Jour DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Pierre Clémenti, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page PLOT: Séverine is a wealthy young newlywed who proclaims she loves her husband, but refuses to sleep with him. Her . . . → Read More: 105. BELLE DE JOUR (1967) DIRECTED BY: Brad Anderson FEATURING: Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Josh Lucas, Stephen Gevedon, Brendan Sexton III PLOT: A hazmat crew removing asbestos from an abandoned asylum uncover secrets about the long-dead but deeply disturbed residents—and arguably more chilling secrets about each other. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: The weirdometer registers only trace amounts . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SESSION 9 (2001) “”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) “It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before—a weird fusion of live action, story-telling and of the surreal.”–Pink Floyd the Wall Director Alan Parker on the movie’s Cannes premiere DIRECTED BY: Alan Parker FEATURING: Bob Geldof, Kevin McKeon, Jenny Wright, Bob Hoskins PLOT: The movie begins with a man sitting motionless in a . . . → Read More: 94. PINK FLOYD THE WALL (1982) |
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