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Reality (2015)

March 22, 2016

Réalité (2015) is the latest film of director Quentin Dupieux. A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Telegrams for the Little Sea Winds [Makunouchi Bento/ Santiago J. Franzani music video 2015]

October 14, 2015 Respond

Nothing is better with this sudden chill and pre-Halloween trepidation than this long-in-the-making music video. Well worth all the effort because this is how a new island is born out of the primordial animation ocean! It features the dreamquest of an shipwrecked soul on unfamiliar shores, where collapsed megalithic heads of a long lost…
The Secret Glory of Otto Rahn [Richard Stanley 2001]

April 18, 2015 Respond

This is an immersive biographic documentary about Otto Rahn – SS Obersturmführer, medievalist, Ariosophist, charged by Himmler to find the Holy Grail. Otto Rahn ended being discharged as homosexual and being asked to commit suicide as a honourable death in 1939. I never had the nerve to explore and sift trough the occult tentacles of the…
FAULTS [Riley Stearns 2014]

April 17, 2015 Respond

File under: impeccable retro eerie black comedy, weird motel theophany, hypnosis binds us all, exit counsellor discovering the fierce truth about himself. This is definitely one of those movies I fear I will keep watching for decades to come again and again. It is a movie that thrives in a twilight region of deprogramming and…
Enemy (2014)

January 8, 2015 Respond

Enemy is a 2013 Canadian-Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve; it was loosely adapted by Javier Gullón from José Saramago‘s 2002 novel The Double.[4] The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two characters, and co-stars Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, and Jane Moffat. It was screened in the Special Presentation…
The Swimmer (1968)

December 20, 2014 Respond

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…
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)

December 14, 2014 Respond

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…
Vanishing Waves (Aurora) (2012)

December 8, 2014 Respond

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…