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DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina PLOT: A rich French businessman courts a beautiful young Spanish woman over the years, but although she sometimes professes to love him, she continually refuses to consummate the relationship. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Obscure Object is one of Buñuel’s best, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) 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) Rebelle DIRECTED BY: Kim Nguyen FEATURING: Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda PLOT: Rebels abduct a 12-year old girl from her African village and force her to become a soldier; when her military commanders decide she has magical powers, she is declared the army’s “war witch.” WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: The tiny dash . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: WAR WITCH (2012) “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;– Turn wheresoe’er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen . . . → Read More: 141. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1966) AKA “Things I Like, Things I Don’t Like”; “Things I Like, Things I Hate” DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet FEATURING: Dominique Pinon PLOT: A man lists things he likes, and things he doesn’t like, for about seven minutes. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s neither weird nor substantial enough, though its an eminently . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: FOUTAISES (1989) “This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge.”–Alonso, “The Tempest” [V,I] DIRECTED BY: Peter Greenaway FEATURING: John Gielgud PLOT: Prospero, a magician trapped on an island with his daughter and native spirits, conjures . . . → Read More: 140. PROSPERO’S BOOKS (1991) DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater FEATURING: The citizens of Austin, Texas PLOT: Slacker spies on the aimless exploits of the slackers of Austin, TX; the camera follows one character for a few minutes, then veers off to chase another through a series of comical, philosophical, and absurd vignettes involving hit-and-run drivers, elderly anarchists and video . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SLACKER (1991) DIRECTED BY: Abbas Kiarostami FEATURING: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase PLOT: Akiko is a young female student moonlighting as a call girl; her pimp sends her on an assignment in the suburbs, where her client, Takashi, is an elderly professor who doesn’t seem terribly interested in her carnal services. When he deigns to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (2012) “To take ‘Dogville’ primarily as the vehicle for this [anti-American political] view, however, is to make it a much less interesting movie than it is… Mr. Von Trier offered, ‘I think the point to the film is that evil can arise anywhere, as long as the situation is right.’ It is the pervasiveness of that . . . → Read More: 138. DOGVILLE (2003)  Leave a comment  Certifed Weird (The List)  2003, Allegory, Anti-American, Blair Brown, Chloë Sevigny, Cruelty, Drama, Experimental, International cast and crew, James Caan, John Hurt, Lars von Trier, Literary, Minimalist, Misanthropic, Nicole Kidman, Nihilistic, Parable, Patricia Clarkson, Provocative, Recommended, Revenge “[Günter Grass] called our [first draft] script ‘Protestant and Cartesian.’ It was lacking the irrational dimension of time, the nodal points where everything becomes confused and collapses in an illogical and tragicomic way. He wants more hard realism on the one hand, and on the other, more courage in the unreal. Imagination as a part . . . → Read More: 137. THE TIN DRUM [DIE BLECHTROMMEL] (1979) |
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