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The Wholly Family<\/em> (2011, Terry Gilliam)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A rich tourist couple in Naples argue amongst themselves while their son swipes a masked statuette from a street vendor. That night after the boy is sent to bed without dinner, it comes to life and an army of masked Italians taunt him with food he’s never quite able to eat (plus the heads of his parents). The family has a happy reunion in the morning, but they’ve become figures at the street vendor’s stand.<\/p>\n

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Very good little movie, with masks out of Dr. Parnassus<\/a><\/em>, doll-parts out of Tideland<\/a><\/em> and who knows what else.<\/p>\n

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The Discipline of D.E.<\/em> (1978, Gus Van Sant)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This has been one of my favorite short stories for years (it’s by William Burroughs from Exterminator<\/em>) and despite the movie’s ranking on J. Rosenbaum’s list of favorite films, I figured a satisfactory adaptation would be near-impossible. It’s fun, but really just reading the story aloud and illustrating on film.<\/p>\n

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Carrots & Peas<\/em> (1969, Hollis Frampton)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A taster of the new Criterion set – I also rewatched parts of Zorns Lemma<\/a><\/em> (thanks for adding chapter stops) and played the great commentary track on Lemon<\/a><\/em>. Stop-motion carrots, cross-fade, stop-motion peas. Color filters, reversals and other craziness. Then around the one-minute mark it becomes a still life, barely changing for the next four. Meanwhile a lecture plays in reverse on the soundtrack. Some fiddling in quicktime reveals that it’s a fitness lesson of some sort.<\/p>\n

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The Town<\/em> (1944, Josef von Sternberg)<\/strong><\/p>\n

An advertisement for small-town USA, filmed in Madison, Indiana. Boring, flavorless little industrial film – no reason at all to ever watch this, besides to see the depths to which the once-glorious Sternberg had fallen.<\/p>\n

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Turen til squashland<\/em> (1967, Lars von Trier)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holy cow, an animated romp with happy bunnies. One is kidnapped, so the hot dog man and other two bunnies ride a friendly whale to the kidnappers’ castle, where the missing bunny rides down its water spew.<\/p>\n

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Revolution<\/em> (1967, Peter Greenaway)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A grim-looking leftist march of young men, not seemingly shot in any organized way, but edited to the Beatles’ Revolution<\/em>, which is kind of funny since it’s got a lyric about “carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,” and some marchers carry anti-capitalist posters.<\/p>\n

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