RE: "Weird" movies you will admit to liking
August 27, 2014 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2014 at 5:16 pm by ManMachine.)
(August 26, 2014 at 11:26 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
Weird movies I like ...
Primer - top drawer independent time-travel sci-fi with dialogue almost entirely in technobabble.
Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi - Godfrey Reggio's trilogy of remarkable visual tone poems each with its own sublime soundtrack by my favourite composer, Phillip Glass
Tideland - misunderstood and much maligned masterpiece by Terry Gilliam in which a small child learns how to live around the bodies of her dead parents ... actually, any film by Terry Gilliam, he's a genius.
The Machinist - Christian Bale goes the extra mile to play an emaciated machinist who has not slept for over a year due to dark shadows in his past.
Cat People (remake) - a Paul Schrader directed erotic horror from the 80's about an incestuous race of , yep you guessed it, cat people
The Company of Wolves - coming-of-age gothic fantasy horror from 1984.
Labyrinth - muppets and David Bowie, what's not to love.
The Dark Crystal - muppets without David Bowie in a twisted fantasy saga
Decalogue - Krzysztof Kieślowski's ten part series of muted art-house shorts
One Night on Earth - 5 part movies about 5 taxi journeys with an extraordinary soundtrack by Tom Waits
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Nagisa Oshima's strange, haunting story set during WWII where the commander of a Japanese POW camp (the simply awesome Ryuichi Sakamoto) finds himself falling in love with one of his trouble-making Australian prisoners (the ubiquitous Mr Bowie) and to cope with it he becomes violently aggressive toward the object of his affection, meeting out grim punishments to all who get in his way, leaving the second-in-command of the British prisoners (Tom Conti) to try and keep the peace. Also has one of the best songs ever to come out of the 80's, Forbidden Colours by Sylvian and Sakamoto.
Kung Fu Hustle - Stephen Chow's comedy, martial art masterpiece
I could go on and on (I normally do) but I'll leave it there for now...
MM
(August 27, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: Lost Highway - another David Lynch movie.
Brazil - Terry Gilliam
12 Monkeys - also Terry Gilliam
Have you seen The Zero Theorem yet? I loved it.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
