down right weird

  • FRANK

    Frank is way beyond odd. He is the mentally ill front man of a Band who insist on creating such impossibly bad music that no-one will ever want to hear them. And to that end he/they are very successful.  He also insists on wearing a giant expressionless papermache head/mask at all times onstage and off :…

  • WRONG : a gem of an absurdist comedy that is so right

    WRONG : a gem of an absurdist comedy that is so right

    If you read this blog regularly then you will know what we really love are movies that are so far out there, and that my creed is actually the weirder the better. And this delightful absurdist surreal comedy called ‘WRONG’ is a perfect example. Written, directed, photographed and edited by Quentin Dupieux (who also did the…

  • NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

    NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

      Chilean Raul Rutz was a prolific experimental filmmaker who worked mainly in France, and is probably best known to US audiences for movies such as ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ and ‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’.   This is his very last film made when he was dying and I think is best described as his personal…

  • HOLY MOTORS

    There is always a trigger point as to why I select the movies that I go see. Either a favorite actor, or its the work of a revered auteur, or simply a recommendation from another cinephile.  When it comes to Leo Carax’s latest movie it was simply a critic’s review in the final clip of…