|
Title: January @366 Weird Movies: WILLY WONKA, Weirdcademy Nominees, REDLINE, more! Post by: Rev. Powell on January 06, 2012, 02:14:18 PM I neglected to post the end of December reviews (mostly the top 10s/awards posts), so I'm including them here.
LUCIFER RISING (1981) (http://366weirdmovies.com/102-lucifer-rising-1981): Certified weird! "Egyptian gods and goddesses frolicking through a magickal psychedelic landscape, summoning Lucifer and flying saucers." THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER, VOL. 2 (1963-1981) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-the-films-of-kenneth-anger-vol-2): "Kenneth Anger is one strange dude." THE TERROR (1963) (http://366weirdmovies.com/roger-cormans-the-terror-1963): "...the legend behind this film is just plain fun, even if it’s more myth than fact, even it’s more product than art, even if it’s more entrepreneur Corman than craftsman Corman. And, hell there is Karloff!"-AE A SERBIAN FILM (2010) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-a-serbian-film-2011): "Sporting a chic visual signature and structured with a non-linear, temporally shifting plot, this sensational shocker fires off images that range from bizarre and salacious to astounding and stupefying."-PD TOP 10 WEIRD MOVIES OF 2011 (http://366weirdmovies.com/top-10-weird-movies-of-2011): "We’re such whiners. Last year at this time, we were complaining that 2010 was 'two or three weird movies shy of being a great year.' We didn’t know how good we had it back then, frankly." TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2011: THE "MAINSTREAM" EDITION (http://366weirdmovies.com/top-10-movies-of-2011-the-mainstream-edition): "...gathering that 'baseline of normality' has made me appreciate the weird all the more." Title: Re: January @366 Weird Movies: EVANGELION 2.22, BUNNY & THE BULL, EUROPEAN SHORT Post by: Rev. Powell on January 13, 2012, 01:51:19 PM EVANGELION 2.22: YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (2009) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-evangelion-2-22-you-can-not-advance): "The fight scenes are psychedelically beautiful; but the overall plot is about as muddled as an Eva/Angel smackdown."
BUNNY AND THE BULL (2009) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-bunny-and-the-bull-2009): "The different visual signatures each look great on their own, but the schizophrenic hopping about from one to another makes you wonder if they switched art directors halfway through film, then ran out of money in the special effects budget." CINEMA 16: EUROPEAN SORT FILMS (2007) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-cinema-16-european-short-films-u-s-edition-2007): "...no matter what direction your tastes run, rest assured there is something here to delight, and to bore, every film fan." BUNUEL'S NAZARIN (1959) (http://366weirdmovies.com/bunuels-nazarin-1959):"The saturnine Fr. Nazario lives in a phantasmagoric haze, imagining that he is following the commandment of Christ to “take up one’s cross,” but only disaster lies in the stations Nazrio visits." -AE Title: Re: January @366 Weird Movies: PULSE, SESSION 9, AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, more! Post by: Rev. Powell on January 20, 2012, 06:39:53 PM PULSE (2001) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-pulse-2001): "Pulse slips so quietly from reality to strangeness that you hardly recognize the transition; one minute, you’re watching its characters going about their daily lives, dealing with unexpected suicides and alarming computer viruses, and the next minute the world is almost deserted and ruled by ghosts."
SESSION 9 (2001) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-session-9-2001): "Disdaining shock violence and other teen horror tropes, Session 9 hoes a tougher row by creating its suspense through characterization, hidden secrets, and (for the most part) by encouraging the audience to imagine unspeakable carnage rather than to get off on seeing it laid out in splattery crimson glory." LA CASA DEL TERROR (1960)/FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF (1964) (http://366weirdmovies.com/la-casa-del-terror-1960-and-face-of-the-screaming-werewolf-1964): "Oddly, deciphering the foreign language film is an easier task than deciphering the English language atrocity. There is endless footage of a hypnotized woman in a pyramid and an aztec mummy that is the result of exchanged body fluids with the 'other' mummy. Or something like that."-AE THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT (2001) (http://366weirdmovies.com/list-candidate-the-american-astronaut-2001): How many movies can boast a line like 'gentlemen, the Boy Who Saw a Woman’s Breast has left our planet' or a musical number like 'The Girl with a Vagina Made of Glass'?" You also may want to check out our preview of what's weird at Sundance 2012 (http://366weirdmovies.com/weird-horizon-for-the-week-of-1202012)---you very well may end up watching a couple of those flicks by the end of the year. Title: Re: January @366 Weird Movies: BLOOD TEA & RED STRING, TOP 10 WEIRDEST, more! Post by: Rev. Powell on January 27, 2012, 02:48:56 PM BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING (2006) (http://366weirdmovies.com/blood-tea-and-red-string-2006): Certified Weird! "..., things are at the weirdest when we climb inside the dark mouse hole and watch the well-dressed vermin pour bloody tea onto the lips of the lifeless doll while their skull-headed pet raven looks on."
TOP 10 WEIRD MOVIE LIST(S): THE SECOND PASS (http://366weirdmovies.com/366weirdmovies-top-10-weird-movie-lists-the-second-pass): "Recognizing that 'weirdest' and 'best' aren’t always the same thing, we’ve actually created two top ten lists here: one for the best movies that fall into the weird genre (these are the ones to start your timid friends off with), and one for the absolute weirdest movies we’ve seen (these are the ones to put on at a party when you want to clear the room)." FILM SOCIALISME (2010) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-film-socialisme-2010-2): "It offers us actors but no characters, situations but no drama, incidents but no story, ideas but no argument, and challenges but no rewards." FEAR CHAMBER (1968) (http://366weirdmovies.com/fear-chamber-1968): "When Baron Boris von Frankenstein hooks the rock up to his giant office computer, he discovers that the alien desires the 'pure' blood of frightened young women, which will enable it to impart priceless information, mathematical formulae, and secrets of the universe!"-AE Title: Re: January @366 Weird Movies: WILLY WONKA, Weirdcademy Nominees, REDLINE, more! Post by: Rev. Powell on February 03, 2012, 01:40:22 PM Finishing up January and sneaking a little into February:
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) (http://366weirdmovies.com/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-1971): Certified Weird! "Wonka's sugar-rush produces the kind of candy-coated hallucinations that stick with you for a lifetime. Face it, if you saw this as a kid, a Greek chorus of Oompah Loompahs are forever bobbing up and down in your memory, warning you about the dangers of greed, gluttony, and gum-chewing every time you even think about climbing out on the precarious banks of a chocolate river." HOUSE OF EVIL (1968) (http://366weirdmovies.com/house-of-evil-1968): "...filtered through such bizarre ineptness that it would be an incredulous stretch to claim House of Evil is a film bordering on coherency."-AE REDLINE (2010) (http://366weirdmovies.com/capsule-redline-2010): "...just a very cool movie all around, rarely letting up for a moment in its quest to assault the senses with psychedelic imagery and revving engines."-AK And don't forget to vote for the Weirdcademy Awards (http://366weirdmovies.com/the-2012-weirdcademy-awards), and for your favorite weird short of 2011 (http://366weirdmovies.com/vote-for-the-weirdest-short-of-2011)! |