366 Weird Movies Guest Review: Amer (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)

My fifth Guest Review for the fine folks over at 366 Weird Movies has just been posted over at their site.  It is for a strange little thing called Amer - a movie I am still not really sure if I liked or not.  I know several fellow critics who actually despise the damned thing.  I originally posted a review (in a slightly altered state) of the film back in January over at my site, The Cinematheque.  So in case you missed that one, or just want to check out 366 Weird Movies (it is a fun review site full of all the requisite oddities - and some non-requisite ones) go on over now.

Read my guest review of Amer at 366 Weird Movies.

Future guest reviews for 366 Weird Movies will include Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun & A Noodle Shop and a series of pieces on Jess Franco.  See ya in the funny papers...

366 Weird Movies Guest Review: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Here is my latest guest review for the fine folks over at 366 Weird Movies.  It is for Apichatpong Weerasethakul's sublime Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.  I saw the film at last year's New York Festival and, at the time, heralded it as at least equal to my favourite Weerasethakul film, Tropical Malady.  Today, I step that up some, by heralding it as the Thai auteur's best work yet.  I will be posting a review of the film over at The Cinematheque a bit closer to its release date, which is March 2nd at Film Forum btw.  That review will more along the extended remix route, but the one over at 366 Weird Movies is nice too.  Anyway, enjoy it now and come back for the director's cut on or around March 1st. 

Read my review of Uncle Boonmee at 366 Weird Movies.

Next up on my 366 Movies guest reviewing gig will be a review on Zhang Yimou's Coen Brothers remix, A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, a new look at Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss (just out in a great new Criterion edition) and a "re-release" of my already published Amer review from a few weeks back.

366 Weird Movies Guest Review: The Temptation of St. Tony

I am doing some guest reviews for a site called 366 Weird Movies, a site that (obviously) specializes in weird movies.  I have already done pieces on Johnny Guitar (not so weird per se, as kitschy) and Dogtooth (the Greek weirdness that was just nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar) and now my third guest review is for an Estonian film called The Temptation of St. Tony.  I have already posted my (ever-so-slightly alternate) review of said film over at The Cinematheque, but the fine folks are just now posting the review at their site, so here it is.

Read my review of The Temptation of St. Tony at 366 Weird Movies.

366 Weird Movies Guest Review: Dogtooth

Here is a link to my second "Guest Review" over at 366 Weird Movies.  It is for Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, an odd little Greek film about a man and woman who keep their (now adult) children in a sort of experimental house arrest, never allowing them access to the outside world and warping their minds with twisted versions of the truth.

Read my review of Dogtooth at 366 Weird Movies.

BTW, an ever-so-slightly different version of this very same review can be seen at The Cinematheque.

366 Weird Movies Guest Review: Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 54)

Well, it would seem that I am branching out.  I have begun what hopefully will be a long and fruitful guest reviewing gig over at 366 Weird Movies.  It is a site dedicated to (obviously) weird movies.  From the slightly odd to the downright freakish - and everything in between.  My first piece for the site is on Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar.  Perhaps not the strangest film around, but its verging on camp ideals make it at least in the honourable mention category.

Read my review of Johnny Guitar at 366 Weird Movies.