NAQOYQATSI
The third film in director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass’s wordless, impressionistic “Qatsi” trilogy, following the legendary KOYAANISQATSI and POWAQQATSI
The third film in director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass’s wordless, impressionistic “Qatsi” trilogy, following the legendary KOYAANISQATSI and POWAQQATSI
The “masterpiece” of American indie film darling Michael Almereyda, a highly evocative and idiosyncratic (read: pretentious) black and white reverie set in mid-1990s NYC
A gotta-see-it-to-disbelieve-it product of the early seventies, when the production code governing film content had just been abolished, and American moviemakers responded by unleashing a veritable tsunami of sex and violence
This 1982 Franz Kafka adaptation is a nicely lensed 22-minute account that really captures the story’s surreal élan
More eighties trashola from Roger Corman, with plenty of gore, slime, cheesy sea monsters, gratuitous T&A and one of the cinema’s better mutant birth scenes
This, as you may recall, was the gross-out spectacle of 2010
A striking, though imperfect, film from Pupi Avati, one of the Italian horror film industry’s least-known talents
The first of Roger Corman’s stately and refined Edgar Allen Poe adaptations. An affecting film, but I prefer my Corman pictures down and dirty
A powerfully atmospheric 1983 entry in the giallo cycle with a clever script and strong performances
Heavily surreal horror from Argentina that’s confusing and incoherent