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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):
Tiny Cinema: A six-film anthology of stories that promise to be absurd, shocking, and yes, weird. Expanded from a webseries, by the makers of Butt Boy. Playing somewhere or other this week, then to VOD on Sep. 6. Tiny Cinema official Facebook page.
IN DEVELOPMENT (pre-production):
Ash (202?): Updates emerge on Flying Lotus‘s sophomore film effort, as Tessa Thompson (Sorry to Bother You) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are now attached as leads. We also have a two sentence plot synopsis: “a woman (Thompson) wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, and must then decide if she can trust the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her. But as their investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events, he begins to wonder how innocent she really is.” Surely Lotus will throw a weird twist into that sci-fi scenario? More details at Deadline.
NEW ON HOME VIDEO:
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (2021): Bertrand Mandico‘s “erotic sci-fi acid western” is doubtlessly one of the weirdest releases of the year, now on VOD, Blu-ray coming in late September. Buy or rent After Blue (Dirty Paradise) on VOD.
Cat People (1982): Read Pamela De Graff’s review. Paul Schrader‘s weird-adjacent cult horror movie is an unexpected 4K Ultra release (with a Blu-ray included). Buy Cat People.
Lux Aeterna (2019): Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle are two actresses in a witch trial movie, and everything goes wrong in a psychedelic way typical of director Gaspar Noe. Although the feature is only 50 minutes long, Arrow’s release is spread across two Blu-rays, with the second disc housing some shorts that influenced Noe: Pasolini‘s “La Ricotta” (featuring Orson Welles); two experimental, epileptic-unfriendly strobe-light shorts; and Kenneth Anger‘s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (!) Buy Lux Aeterna.
The Oregonian (2011): Read the List Candidate review. Winner of the 2011 Weirdcademy Award for “Weirdest Scene” for the “rainbow pee” sequence, now on Blu-ray! Buy The Oregonian.
CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:
This section will no longer be updated regularly. Instead, we direct you to our new “Repertory Cinemas Near You” page. We will continue to mention exceptional events in this space from time to time, however.
This week, San Francisco’s Castro theater returns to the repertory list after a long post-pandemic absence, as they will be screening Vertigo (1958) on Saturday, September 3.
FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES ON YOUTUBE:
Cube (1997): Read the Canonically Weird entry! This low-budget ontological thriller about six characters trapped in an inexplicable giant cube tends to bounce around streaming services; at the moment, it’s free (with ads) on YouTube. Watch Cube on YouTube.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
There’s still over a week left to RSVP and/or nominate a movie for our September 10 Weird Watch Party. Current screening nominees are A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence on Amazon Prime, Runaway Nightmare (1982) on Tubi (via Discord), or Black Bear on Amazon Prime. Add your input, or simply RSVP, here. We would like two more RSVPs at least!
In reviews next week, Shane Wilson spends Labor Day in two Hotels (Mike Figgis, 2001 and Jessica Hausner, 2004); <Giles Edwards attends a Robot Carnival (1987); and, getting on in years, Gregory J. Smalley finds he needs a Walker (1987) (biopic). Onward and weirdward!
What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.