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CAPSULE: THE WHITE RIBBON [DAS WEISSE BAND: EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE]...
DIRECTED BY: Michael Haneke FEATURING: Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner, Leonie Benesch, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Leonard Proxauf PLOT: A doctor’s horse is tripped by a wire strung between two...
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THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004): MEL’S LETHAL JESUS AND THE MOST...
This Thanksgiving, we here at 366 Weird Movies are thankful that we were able to recover content lost in the Great Crash of 2010, even if we do have to re-enter much of it by hand. We’re also thankful...
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RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: MEEK’S CUTOFF (2010)
DIRECTED BY: Kelly Reichardt FEATURING: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson PLOT: A small group of settlers faces an indefinite fate when they...
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145. MARQUIS (1989)
“This is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. I found it to be discomforting and just weird… This movie gives me the chills. However, I would watch it again just because it is so...
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LA LONTANANZA NOSTALGICA UTOPICA FUTURA (2014)
A new short film by Alfred Eaker and James Mannan Director’s statement: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (trans: Nostalgia for a Distant Future Utopia) takes its title from a work by Italian...
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LIST CANDIDATE: THE DEVIL (1972)
Diabel DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Zulawski FEATURING: Leszak Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Monika Niemczyk, Wiktor Sadecki, Iga Mayr, Anna Parzonka, Maciej Englert, Bozena Miefiodow...
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238. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)
AKA Sayat Nova “Besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein… cinema has not discovered anything revolutionarily new until The Color of Pomegranates, not counting the generally...
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CINEMATIC CONTROVERSIES: THE CONQUEROR (1956)
Weirder (and ultimately more lethal) casting than Elvis Presley as a frogman doing a yoga number with the Bride of Frankenstein is casting John Wayne as… Genghis Khan! Not only is The Conqueror...
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317. MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001)
Sennen joyû; AKA Chiyoko: Millennium Actress “I find memories and dreams belong to the same category of artifacts. In other words, if we want to make a contrast, we have reality on one side, which is...
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CARL THEODORE DREYER’S DAY OF WRATH (1943)
Carl Theodor Dreyer‘s Day of Wrath (1943) is an undeniable masterpiece that should be required viewing. It’s bleak as hell; a kind of synthesis of Rembrandt and Nathanel Hawthorne filtered through a...
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ANDREI RUBLEV (1966)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev (originally titled The Passion According to Andrei ) is a 1966 film about a painter whom we never see painting. Furthermore, it’s about a 15th century artist who we...
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NOVEMBER (2017)
DIRECTED BY: Rainer Sarnet FEATURING: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik PLOT: Aided by witchcraft, a love triangle unfolds in an Estonian village in the 19th Century. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: It’s only...
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PRE-CODE HEAVEN: BLONDE VENUS (1932) AND THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
Among the most influential and potent of all director/actor collaborations is that of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. They made seven films together, beginning with 1930’s infamous The Blue...
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341. UNDERGROUND (1995)
“If you saw what I see for the future in Yugoslavia, it would scare you.”–Marshall Tito, 1971 “I think that this current conflict is the result of tectonic moves that last for a whole century. If there...
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CAPSULE: MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)
DIRECTED BY: Paul Schrader CAST: Ken Ogata, Yasosuke Bando, Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima PLOT: The life and works of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima are portrayed through a triptych...
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CAPSULE: BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001)
Le pacte des loups DIRECTED BY: Christophe Gans FEATURING: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Jérémie Renier PLOT: It’s 1764 and a vicious monster is terrorizing the...
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356. NOVEMBER (2017)
“They’re the sort of old legends that are made up just to find a simple reason for every complicated thing. No one wants to admit that they’re foolish. The Frog of the North appeared in the sky from...
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CAPSULE: ZAMA (2017)
DIRECTED BY: Lucrecia Martel FEATURING: Daniel Giménez Cacho PLOT: A Spanish magistrate at an Amazonian outpost in Argentina longs for a transfer so he can return to his family. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE...
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362. THE DEVILS (1971)
“There was no better director to learn from. He would always take the adventurous path even at the expense of coherence.”–Derek Jarman on Ken Russell DIRECTED BY: Ken Russell FEATURING: Oliver Reed,...
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CAPSULE: USED AND BORROWED TIME (2020)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Sophia Romma FEATURING: Cam Kornman, Emily Seibert, Clas Duncan, Alice Bahlke, Grant Morenz, Gavin Roher,...
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