Next week, we’ll feature reviews of the wordless, mystical experiment Le Quattro Volte (2010), Ingmar Bergman’s medieval death poem The Seventh Seal (1957), and Alfred will cover a couple more avant-garde Mozart stagings with The Dream of Scipione and Ascanio in Alba. To fill things out, we’ll also post an essay in praise of the pretentious movie (the publication date is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with the movies chosen for review this week).
Looking for our weekly catalog of weird search terms for the week? Look no further. A couple of old friends came back this week: somebody out there is still looking for something “like necrophilia but weirder,” and of course, we still have the lonely searcher seeking that “wierd lumpy movie short.” We’ll focus on a trio of newcomers to select our Weirdest Search Term of the Week, however. Second runner up goes to the philosophical question “is it okay to love an object?” (We think if its strictly Platonic, then yes; if you’re talking carnally, it depends on how hot the object is). We were impressed enough by the simple search for “absurdism in perfume” to make it our first runner up. But the Weirdest Search term of the Week, by a unanimous vote, was “hapy valentine guillotine sex,” which took last week’s honorable mention search for “guillotine women art” and upped the weirdness ante to championship levels. Congratulations to all who competed, and for the losers, weirder luck next week!
NEPOTISM CORNER: Yes, there are people out there making YouTube videos with the stated aim of being featured on 366 Weird Movies. Unfortunately, they are related by blood to the owners and operators of this website, and therefore it would be unfair to spotlight them without full disclosure. Still, how can you look at the following footage and not be thrilled at the prospect of the upcoming generation of burgeoning absurdists?
Remember, with proper guidance you too can twist and pervert inspire your sons and daughters, nieces and nephews to make their own short films about egg-laying beatniks!
Here’s the massive reader suggested review queue, for those of you who follow such things: The Seventh Seal (next week!); Kairo [AKA Pulse]; Primer; 200 Motels; Private Parts (1972); Saddest Music in the World; Mulholland Drive; The American Astronaut; Blood Tea Continue reading WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE
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For his Salzburg production, Claus Guth’s intertwines Mozart’s neglected, unfinished work with Adama (Earth in Hebrew), by 21st century Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, commissioned especially for this project. During Mozart’s brief lifetime, he worked with traditional forms and then, especially later in his career, defied those forms. It is one of the great tragedies of music that Mozart did not live another ten to twenty years. His late works (such as the Symphony in G 
The thesis of Nightmares in Red, White and Blue, the 2009 examination of the American horror film, is that particular social conditions and historical anxieties shape the nature of the shock genre from decade to decade.