SEVERED WAYS: THE NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
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Experimental
THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
Black and White, Capsules Blog, Drama, Experimental, FOUR STARS, Independent Cinema, sex, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema
Think, a cross between David Lynch and Woody Allen with a touch of Kubrick, and you’ll have an idea of…
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (”Dogville”) provokes his longtime mentor Jorgen Leth through a series of spontaneously created rules for…
Pi
Black and White, Capsules Blog, Experimental, Independent Cinema, Social Satire, Suspense, THREE STARS, Video Essay
Aronofsky relies too much on surreal nods to David Lynch’s “Eraserhead” when he could have explored more of the social…
BULLET IN THE HEAD — NYFF 2008
Glorified experimental student films don’t get anymore cheesy than Jaime Rosales’s movie. Cole Smithey.
MY WINNIPEG — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Art Film, Black and White, Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Experimental, FOUR STARS, Transgressive Cinema
Shot in his signature black-and-white, the highly personal “docu-fantasy” sustains a dreamlike quality that freely allows non sequitur ideas, historical…
MISTER LONELY — CANNES 2007
Think of it as a cinema-of-the-infantile and you’ll be better able to stomach the utter boredom that goes along with…
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! — CANNES 2006
Art Film, Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, Experimental, Fantasy, FOUR STARS, Transgressive Cinema
Guy Madden is a kind of lo-fi David Lynch, and “Brand Upon The Brain!” is a fitting evolutionary step for…
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
The Treadaway brothers give inspired performances as the joined-at-the-side brothers and their sincere efforts, in the face of the filmmakers’…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
