TO KILL A MAN
A Chilean drama from 2014 that makes for an interesting companion-piece to 2013’s BLUE RUIN, being an artful reality-oriented look at a quiet man driven to madness and murder
TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
A visually fascinating but dramatically flawed Italian production from the seventies
THEY CAME BACK
THEY CAME BACK, the directorial debut of Robin Campillo, eschews the flesh eating and intestine pulling of traditional living dead flicks in favor of a more surreal, even satirical approach
TAXIDERMIA
This Hungarian freak-out isn’t really a horror movie, yet I believe it will be best appreciated by horror fans
REQUIEM
From Germany, a strikingly filmed fact-based account of possible demonic possession, driven by a superb performance by newcomer Sandra Hiller
DER TODESKING
An authentically post-modern horror film from Germany’s wildest wild man Jorg Buttgereit
DEAD LEAVES
This no-budgeter is uniquely stark and creepy but also excessively drawn out and monotonous, essentially a promising short stretched to feature length
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
Arguably the masterpiece of England’s Peter Greenaway, an unrestrained blast of grossness and bad behavior that was and remains a repellant yet undeniably beautiful mutant of a movie
THE CHEKIST
A blistering look at an executioner going about his work in the wake of the Russian Revolution that’s guaranteed to traumatize the most hardened viewers
I’M NOT SCARED
One of the most remarkable thrillers of recent years, and certainly one of the finest modern Italian films