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Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi (2013)
Witching and Bitching (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi) is another madness from the spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, after films like Balada Triste de Trompeta or El Dia de la Bestia. A gang of jewellery thieves dressed up as street performers try to get away with a sack of gold rings. By ill fortune they drive…
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The Swimmer (1968)
ned merrill is what you would call an american suburbanite. athletic and well played by burt lancaster. who decides one day to swim his way back home through his neighbors’ private pools. it is a strange journey that seems to have its own dreamlike, almost cartoonish reality. but as ned stops to speak with each…
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
dumping reality in favor of a quirky apocalyptic vision that involves no cannibalism, the nine lives of tomas katz is ben hopkins’s low budget endeavor to deliver spectral horror. a tall extra-terrestrial materializes from a sewer only to witness the last day of the universe and cause general chaos. changing his identity with the persons…
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Long Weekend (1978, Australia)
So good to have the planet back! And providential to have it on biserika.ro (the church), a truly ecumenical place to be. I feel indebted to many movie diggers that have gone faster, further and deeper than me – and who continue to nourish me with the most exquisite pieces of their rarest fruits.…
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The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears (2013)
The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears is the latest movie from the creators of Amer, Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani. Following the disappearance of his wife, a man finds himself on a dark and twisted trail of discovery through the labyrinthine halls of his apartment building. Led on a wild goose chase by cryptic messages from…
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Vanishing Waves (Aurora) (2012)
lithuanian feature written and directed by kristina buozyte. visually powerful, beautifully captured but without a great storyline. depicting an artificially induced neural connection between an awake scientist and a comatose woman. dwelling upon violent mental landscapes that escape the constant monitoring delivered by computer screens. showing that altered forms of consciousness can easily elude any…
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Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Being a Frank Herbert’s Dune fan I always thought that a sci-fi masterpiece like this, so complex and rich, deserves a glorious visual adaptation. If someone was cut for the job, then the person couldn’t be anyone else but Jodorowsky. “Jodorowsky’s Dune” is a documentary by Frank Pavich. It tells the story about Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful…
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Under the Skin (2013)
Under the Skin is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Jonathan Glazer, and written by Glazer and Walter Campbell as a loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 novel of the same name. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien seductress who preys on men in Scotland