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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990): Discussion begins. Read the Canonically Weird entry! The Criterion Collection upgrades Kurosawa‘s elegiac late masterpiece to 4K UHD. Buy Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (4K).

Everything Everywhere all at Once (2022): Discussion begins. Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review. Already out on Blu-ray, this is a collector’s edition 4K UHD release with special packaging and a number of collectable tchotchkes (a multiverse map, fake receipts, a new booklet etc.). This edition can be purchased exclusively through A24’s online storefront.

Popcorn Frights Film Festival (Aug 10-20):

Discussion begins. Excuse the near-pun, but Popcorn Frights popped up out of nowhere. This Miami Beach based festival has been in existence since 2015, but really stepped up this year with a number of curious, offbeat horror films, including a few premieres. This year’s notable revivals include Blood Feast, Nightbreed, a Kenneth Anger retrospective (probably including Lucifer Rising) and The Birds. 366 favorite Hundreds of Beavers will also be continuing its festival run here. Here are the other possibilities we discussed (along with some trailers that you can’t hear on the episode):

• Abruptio – A terrorist controls a man by implanting a bomb in his neck; everyone is portrayed by puppets.

• Agatha – A post-apocalyptic thriller with a unique visual style.
  

• Bloody Bridget – Bridget becomes a Haitian vampire Richard Elfman‘s latest B-horror-comedy.
• Brightwood – A couple deals with the breakup of their marriage in the midst of an ontological crisis.
• Eldritch USA – A Lovecraft musical.
  
• Perpetrator – Jennifer Reeder‘s latest surreal high-school set horror.
• Psychosis – A schizophrenic is hired by drug dealers to chase down zombies.
  

Popcorn Frights official home page.

New Quentin Dupieux projects: While reviewing Yannick (“an absurdist delight”) at the Locarno Film Festival, Peter Debruge mentions that Dupieux has another one in the can, set to debut at the Venice Film Festival next month: DAAAAAALI!, a “Salvador Dali satire.” We will, or course, be investigating both when the time comes. Variety review of Yannick.

Street Trash remake (202?): Ryan Kruger plans to make a South African-based remake of Street Trash, the 1987 classick about poisoned hooch melting homeless people. Kruger promises “new, exciting plot elements that give the film many bizarre twists and turns.” More from Variety.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

We have no guest currently scheduled for next week’s Pod 366. In a light week of written reviews, Shane Wilson handles another one that Came from the Reader-Suggested Queue with the “Black” comedy Svidd neger (2003), while Gregory J. Smalley gives a belated report on what may be Wes Anderson‘s weirdest movie yet,  Asteroid City (2023). Onward and weirdward!