“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it.”-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d …”–Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry
FEATURING: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, [...]
AKA Bram Stoker’s Dracula
DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
FEATURING: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Tom Waits
PLOT: Vlad Dracula, a defender of Christendom against invading Muslims, curses God
and becomes undead when his beloved bride throws herself from the castle walls due to false reports of his death sent by Turkish spies; centuries later, he [...]
DIRECTED BY: Paul Morrison
FEATURING: Robert Pattison, Javier Beltrán
PLOT: In Madrid in the 1920s, with Dadaism in full flourish and Surrealism in its infancy,
soon-to-be-famous poet Federico García Lorca flirts with soon-to-be-famous painter Salvador Dalí while soon-to-be-famous director Luis Buñuel hangs around.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s subject is Surrealism, but its style is conventional historical [...]
DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin
FEATURING: Alice Krige, Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin
PLOT: A prisoner returns to his childhood home on an ostrich farm in a
mythical northern land during the constant daylight of the summer season, where he becomes involved with two mysterious women.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is plenty weird enough to make [...]
