Avant-garde / Experimental
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    People

    Gregg Araki

    One of the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent cinema,...

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    Movies

    Waltz with Bashir (2008)

    An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct...

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    Palindromes (2005)

    Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father,...

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    Last Days (2005)

    Addicted to drugs, a Seattle rock star (Michael Pitt) continues on a path of self-destruction.

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    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    In town for a motorcycle race, a sportswriter (Johnny Depp) and his attorney (Benicio Del Toro)...

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    Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)

    The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in...

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    Dogville (2004)

    On the run from gangsters, a woman (Nicole Kidman) agrees to work for residents of a small town in...

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    Mulholland Drive (2001)

    An actress (Naomi Watts) goes to Los Angeles to audition for a director (Justin Theroux) and falls...

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    Mister Lonely (2008)

    A Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) visits a commune where residents (Samantha Morton, Denis...

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    My Winnipeg (2008)

    Filmmaker Guy Maddin's whimsical portrait of his Manitoba hometown.

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    Manderlay (2006)

    In 1933 a young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live...

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    The Raspberry Reich (2004)

    A critique of terrorist chic from pop culture maverick Bruce LaBruce.

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    Waking Life (2001)

    A young vagabond (Wiley Wiggins) listens to such varied subjects as existentialism, evolution,...

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    Daisies

    The life of two girls, Marie I and Marie II, who try to understand the meaning of the world and of...

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    The Belly of an Architect (1989)

    A U.S. architect (Brian Dennehy) in Rome thinks his wife (Chloe Webb) is poisoning him to be with...

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    Tropical Malady (2005)

    A soldier (Banlop Lomnoi) courts a country boy (Sakda Kaewbuadee), then pursues a shape-shifting...

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    Aria (1988)

    Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Bruce Beresford, Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard and five other filmmakers...

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    Protagonist (2007)

    A former terrorist, an evangelist, a bank robber, and a martial artist discuss their personal...

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    Eraserhead (1978)

    Henry Spencer's (John Nance) hair sticks straight up, and his girlfriend's (Charlotte Stewart)...

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    Inland Empire (2006)

    Two actors (Laura Dern) star in a remake of a film which was originally unfinished because its leads...

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    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    Bizarre events frustrate an ambassador (Fernando Rey), his wife (Delphine Seyrig) and friends,...

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    People

    Toshio Matsumoto

    Toshio Matsumoto was a Writer for the movies Dogura Magura and Shura.

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    The Pillow Book (1997)

    Set in contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher...

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    4 (2006)

    Four episodes depiciting life in Moscow and in the country. The opening of the film sets the whole...

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    Southlander (2003)

    Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the...

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    Toto Who Lived Twice

    Three independent, but equally as cynical, stories are interwoven to explore the notion that God's...

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    Tokyo Fist (1998)

    Tsuda, a successful employee of a large insurance company, intends to marry his beautiful...

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    The Blue Villa (1995)

    The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by...

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    The Wayward Cloud (2007)

    Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city...

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    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, A Horse Drama

    In this opera about the death of 10 different composers, all from mysterious circumstances, the...

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    Alice (1988)

    Animated remake of "Alice in Wonderland."

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    71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (2006)

    Mystery involving a 19-year-old student who, on the day before Christmas 1993, senselessly murders...

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    Powaqqatsi (1988)

    Music by Philip Glass accompanies scenes of Third World exploitation.

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    Movies

    julien donkey-boy (1999)

    A teenager (Ewen Bremmer) struggles to exist amid a perverse and dysfunctional family.

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    The Saddest Music in the World (2004)

    During the Great Depression, a beer baroness (Isabella Rossellini) holds a competition to find the...

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    Herz aus Glas

    The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby...

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    Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

    The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was...

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    What Is It? (2006)

    What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of...

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    Faust (1994)

    Inventive, operatic presentation of the story of the German magician and astrologer held to have...

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    Naked Lunch (1991)

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally...

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    Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (2006)

    Slavoj Zizek is one of the most distinguished and politically engaged thinkers of our time. He...

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    I, a Man (1967)

    Tom Baker is a blonde bisexual and the only man in this experimental exploitation film directed by...

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    Prospero's Books (1991)

    Shakespeare's exiled duke (John Gielgud) tells his tale in calligraphy in this version of ``The...

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    Queen of Diamonds (1991)

    An alienated blackjack dealer mourns her missing husband.

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    My Hustler

    While Ed Hood and Dorothy Dean battle over Paul America, the Sugar Plum Fairy sneaks up for a piece...

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    Themroc (1972)

    This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal...

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    Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

    New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.

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    Cremaster 5 (1997)

    As an opera plays, the Queen of Chain sings and executes the grand gestures of romantic suffering...

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    Renaldo & Clara (1978)

    Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder...

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    Johanna

    Johanna is a young drug addict who falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously...