David Lynch DVD Collection
Has David Lynch just become a friendly caricature of American oddness? I mean, once you turn sixty, start evangelising about meditation, and release your own brand of coffee - how strange can you really be?
A new five-disc DVD collection gives a before-and-after glimpse of Lynch's career. You can start with the industrial nightmare of fatherhood that is Eraserhead, and then wash your mind clean afterwards with his early short films like the adorable The Frenchman and The Cowboy.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Sergio Leone has been a punchline for too long. Half the time someone faces off with an enemy - whether in comedy, soap opera, or sci-fi - suddenly we'll see close-up squinting and hear Morricone's whistled woo-WEE-woo-WEE-woooooo.
Yeah. They're like cowboys. We get it.
Cult-auteur Takashi Miike knows better, and his latest film is one long love letter to Leone.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed some gear from the local TV station where he worked and went down to the sports arena before the big Judas Priest show.
The rest is heavy metal history.
Trash Video
If you're ever pondering a move to the more fashionable, more southern cities of Australia, you should first ask yourself this question: “If I ever grow an interest in some obscure aspect of cinema that I wish to devour wholeheartedly but still only have the bank balance of a coughed-up hairball, will I become depressed that I didn't stay in Brisbane and hire all those films from Trash Video for an extremely cheap price?” The answer most certainly, is yes.
Southland Tales
Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, Donnie Darko. Now the long-delayed, much-maligned Southland Tales finally arrives, and brings with it this question:
Uh, what the fuck?
Southland Tales is a sprawling, semi-satirical apocalypse flick, populated by visionary porn stars, amnesiac celebrities, giant dirigibles, and other Warhol wet dreams.
Gozu
There seems to be an unspoken law that says every film festival must feature a new Takashi Miike film. Luckily, he churns out multiple features a year without a care for genre, taste, or traditional three-act structure. This unpredictable output ensures he has his share of misses, but when he hits, he hits hard.
The Aura
Remember Nine Queens, the con-man caper flick from Argentina that lingered in small cinemasback in the early ‘00s? Director Fabian Bielinsky followed this debut with The Aura, receiving a handful of glowing reviews and sweeping the local awards before he suffered a fatal heart attack in 2006.
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