Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’

The Fantastic Planet (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Jennifer Drake | Eric Baugin | Jean Topart | Jean Valmont | Sylvie Lenoir | Michèle Chahan | Yves Barsacq | Hubert de Lapparent | Gérard Hernandez | Claude Joseph | Philippe Ogouz | Jacques Ruisseau | Barry Bostwick | Mark Gruner | Marvin Miller
Directors: René Laloux
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Gummo (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jacob Reynolds | Nick Sutton | Lara Tosh | Jacob Sewell | Darby Dougherty | Chloë Sevigny | Carisa Glucksman | Jason Guzak | Casey Guzak | Wendall Carr | James Lawhorn | James Glass | Ellen M. Smith | Charles Matthew Coatney
Directors: Harmony Korine
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Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jeff Bridges | John Goodman | Julianne Moore | Steve Buscemi | David Huddleston | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Tara Reid | Philip Moon | Mark Pellegrino | Peter Stormare | Flea | Torsten Voges | Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Jack Kehler | John Turturro
Directors: Joel Coen
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When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Drew Barrymore | Jena Malone | Jake Gyllenhaal | Holmes Osborne | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Daveigh Chase | Mary McDonnell | James Duval | Arthur Taxier | Patrick Swayze | Mark Hoffman | David St. James | Tom Tangen | Jazzie Mahannah | Jolene Purdy | Stuart Stone | Gary Lundy
Directors: Richard Kelly
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

The Evil Dead (1981)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Ellen Sandweiss | Richard DeManincor | Betsy Baker | Theresa Tilly | Philip A. Gillis | Dorothy Tapert | Cheryl Guttridge | Barbara Carey | David Horton | Wendall Thomas | Don Long | Stu Smith
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Sarah Berry | Dan Hicks | Kassie DePaiva | Ted Raimi | Denise Bixler | Richard Domeier | John Peaks | Lou Hancock | Snowy Winters | Sid Abrams | Josh Becker | Scott Spiegel | Thomas Kidd | Mitch Cantor
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!