DIRECTED BY: Gus Van Sant FEATURING: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon PLOT: Two young men become lost in a desert, and wander aimlessly in search of a way out. COMMENTS: The plot synopsis above may seem unhelpfully brief, but there’s the very real possibility that I’ve actually said too much. Describing Gerry is an almost futile … Continue reading CAPSULE: GERRY (2002)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): Clara Sola … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 7/1/2022
DIRECTED BY: Gus van Sant FEATURING: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert PLOT: A young, narcoleptic gay prostitute searches for his mother, with the help of a slumming fellow hustler who is heir to a fortune. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: My Own Private Idaho weaves two weird premises together: the story of a … Continue reading LIST CANDIDATE: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): The Forbidden Room (2015): Guy Maddin‘s latest (co-directed with Evan Johnson) is a series of absurd early-talkie, two-strip Technicolor shorts, set in … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 10/9/2015
DIRECTED BY: Gus van Sant FEATURING: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase PLOT: A moody boy with the ghost of a kamikaze pilot for a best friend and a hobby of attending funerals falls in love with a girl who’s dying of cancer. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Remaking Harold and Maude as a teen … Continue reading CAPSULE: RESTLESS (2011)