THE ANGEL AND THE WOMAN
A Canadian art film from the seventies with supernatural overtones, pornographic interludes and a stern message about the downside of free will and the futility of violence…or something
UNDER THE SKIN
A visual stunner whose technical brilliance can’t mask the fact that the proceedings are rambling and fatally undernourished from a narrative standpoint
THE JUNIPER TREE
A very good film that deals with witchcraft in the middle ages and stars Bjork in her first film role
JONATHAN
A most unique German made take on DRACULA that twists the material into a metaphor for the Nazi era. Stylish and audacious this film is, but it’s also obnoxiously pretentious
THE GREEN ELEPHANT
A fitfully vile bit of arty sleaze that fits in well with high-minded sickies like VIVA LA MUERTE and SALO with its abundance of gore, scatology and general unpleasantness
THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
Mixing acute social observation with psychological angst, this Wim Wenders film emerges as one of the most interesting films of a very interesting filmmaker
L’ANGE
A stunningly visualized, wordless exercise in dreamlike strangeness that’s an altogether remarkable example of impressionistic razzle-dazzle
TWILIGHT (1990)
Definitely a love it or hate it experience, a Hungarian made black-and-white adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s THE PLEDGE done in the highly artistic, ultra slow paced style of Bela Tarr
TROUBLE EVERY DAY
From France , a sexy, gruesome, wildly unconventional vampire movie
TRIGGER MAN
From THE ROOST’S Ti West comes this provocative throwback to the wilderness thrillers of the seventies