Welcome to 2012! We’ll get in the swing of the new year by rededicating ourselves to that long-neglected reader-suggested review queue. First off, on Monday we’ll belatedly weigh in on the Serbian Movie controversy, with a long discussion/analysis from the always-opinionated Pamela De Graff. Next off, we’ll finally welcome seminal weird filmmaker Kenneth Anger to the 366 discussion with a survey of The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2, and in-depth coverage of one of the five films on that set (but which one?) Finally, we’ll take a look at Roger Corman‘s The Terror (1963), made in 24 hours, with Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff wandering around on leftover castle sets trying to think up a plot on the spur of the moment.
It was an anemic week in weird search terms; people were likely staying indoors and celebrating the holidays with loved ones instead of typing randomly deranged search strings into Google. Looking for Weirdest Search Term of the Week candidates, we’re forced to fall back on old standbys like “women breastfeeding horse” (believe it or not, we field requests for ladies breastfeeding various types of livestock at least once a week). A bit more unusual is the search for “mustard disturbing weird movies.” “How to intimidate your paranoid schizophrenic weird creepy sleezy neighbour so they leave” was a phrase that made perfect logical sense, yet still struck us as peculiar advice to seek from a search engine. We’ll give our vote for Weirdest of the Week to “pornographic movies in the celebrations, in fact,”: it was a weird enough query anyway, but adding the superfluous “in fact” at the end pushes it over the edge of oddness.
Speaking of the reader-suggested review queue (which we’ll be cutting down by three items next week!) here’s how it currently stands: A Serbian Film (next week!); The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II (for Lucifer Rising, among others—next week!); The Terror (next week!); Kairo [AKA Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
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Art critic Waldemar Januszczak attempts to set the record straight. “What’s to like about this man?,” Januszczak asks. “First of all, there is the art, which needs no defense. Gauguin painted some of the world’s most alluring woman and put them into several of the world’s most gorgeous pictures, but what I really like about him is that he did it for big and noble reasons.” And then, most aptly, he says, “There is always more to a Gauguin than meets the eye.” Januszczak covers 
Stunning cinematography, sacred music, the birth of the universe, graceful dinosaurs, childhood hallucinations and a glimpse of the afterlife all mixed together in the most ambitious movie of the past decade. We dare the Academy to nominate this for Best Picture.