down right weird
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SLEEPING BEAUTY
An emotionless Lucy seems bored with her life. She works two dead-end jobs, one as waitress in a cheap restaurant, and the other as a mailroom office temp whose main task is to collate duplicated papers. She also earns money by having a hose shoved down her throat for medical research. Somehow in between all…
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THE TREE OF LIFE
Its no easy feat collecting one’s thoughts after watching Terrence Malik’s latest confounding epic of a movie: it is truly mind-blowing. What little plot there is focuses on the O’Brien’s, a rather ordinary middle-class family in small town America in the 1950’s. Mr. O’Brien struggles with conflicting ideals: he is a strict disciplinarian of a…
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MELANCHOLIA
This movie starts out with a stunning long visual prologue played out to the sound of Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde that sets the tone of this powerfully dramatic story told in two parts named after two sisters. The first is Justine, who is a severely disturbed and melancholic bride, struggling to get through the lavish…
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LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA
In the intro to my Blog I state that my preferred choice of movies are the ones that are ‘as weird as possible’. And I do sit through a lot of them. However I have just come across one that may even stand out as the most bizarre to date. From 1989 comes this movie…
