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DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel PLOT: Six friends attempt to have dinner together, but repeatedly fail for increasingly bizarre reasons. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A plot so simple it’s barely a plot at all starts out small . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) Tôkyô Zankoku Keisatsu “She is the only actress in the world who can look so beautiful just standing in the midst of a gushing spray of blood.”–Yoshihiro Nishimura on Eihi Shiina “I wouldn’t say I liked being covered in blood… [but] I really love the surrealism and beauty of these scenes, while I’m getting covered . . . → Read More: 142. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) 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: 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: Peter Orton FEATURING: David Soul, David Bedella, Leon Craig PLOT: Jerry Springer hosts a typical episode of his show, in which the usual horrible people desperate for one moment of fame bare their sordid lives to the world. In the ensuing mayhem, Jerry is shot. He finds himself in Hell, where Satan makes . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA (2005) “What a rotten film, all we meet are crazy people.”–Roland DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard FEATURING: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne PLOT: Corrine and Roland are a married couple who are cheating on each other and who hope to inherit money from Corrine’s dying father. They set off on a weekend trip to travel to the father’s . . . → Read More: 130. WEEKEND (1967) Ai no Mukidashi “Nothing is more important than love.”–Shion Sono on the theme of Love Exposure DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Atsurô Watabe, Makiko Watanabe PLOT: Yu Honda, the son of a Catholic priest, falls in with a gang of upskirt photographers in an attempt to generate sins . . . → Read More: 129. LOVE EXPOSURE (2008) DIRECTED BY: Dusan Makavejev FEATURING: Carole Laure, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, John Vernon PLOT: Two alternating stories: in one a virgin beauty queen escapes from her millionaire husband and his solid gold penis, while in the other a Socialist sea captain sails down an Amsterdam canal with a hold full of sugar and . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SWEET MOVIE (1974) DIRECTED BY: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson FEATURING: Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson PLOT: A music-hating, tone deaf detective from a family of musical prodigies tracks down a gang of musical terrorists staging disruptive avant-garde percussion performances across Malmö, Sweden. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: If David Lynch directed the Swedish cast of STOMP in . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SOUND OF NOISE (2010) DIRECTED BY: Robert Downey, Sr. FEATURING: Arnold Johnson, Robert Downey, Sr. (voice), Pepi Hermine, Antonio Fargas PLOT: Putney Swope, the token African American on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising firm, is accidentally elected Chairman of the Board on a secret ballot; he renames the agency “Truth and Soul Advertising,” fires most . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PUTNEY SWOPE (1969) |
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