films that challenges life's realism

so, then i was like -

Ive seen some amazing films these past few months (after slipping back into Dennis Hopper ville) and decided I'd give a very short, and i mean, brief, horrendous, un-cultural studies analysis rundown of why they rool. This should provoke a mass viewing on your part, good sir/madame.

Stranger Than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch
the same buddy who made Coffee and Cigarettes (sweet scene between Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, of all bloody people!). For genre sake I guess its a black comedy by most standards. Ultimately, its very minimalistic cinematography, vacant characters who simeltaneously seem to harbour alot of, well, character. !

Barton Fink - Cohen Brothers

John Turturro and John Goodman's characters really compliment each other in this movie. Although you have your prototype of a "neurotic jew" writer whos landed himself less than willingly in L.A, its far from cliche in its representation of the characters unmotivated actions which result in some pretty eerie and interesting ending, and the in-out of dream state aids its subtle ambiguity . (! -- )

Manhattan - Woody Allen
Luckily this turned out to be as good in most respects as Annie Hall, and nothing at all like Everything You wanted to know about sex but were afraid to Ask, cuz, dizzam, that was a ballcracker of a movie, whatever the fuck that means. Our Jewish buddy keeps his love for New York blantantly intact by representing relationships against the urban backdrop of impossibility! And he's too cute. Interstellar perversion ahead!

Short Cuts - Robert Altman
Saying anything too far reaching about this fucking crazy god damn movie might insight some serious debate, so, all i will say is, it moves along the lines of (3 hours worth) of the human condition as extremelyyyy unstable, and if anything, very much intune with nature and its slow decline as well. Humans + nature = leave you feeling likely quite uncomfortable, or wondering, okay, .. but WHYYYY?? Based on Raymond Carver short stories, Altman manges to intertwine everyones screwy shit into one ball of sheer ambiguity (because clearly thats what Altman does best, choose your own interpretation and run with it, then, come running back confused as hell)

Inland Empire - David Lynch
just see it, for the love of god. trying to create a glimpse of coherence of this movie is just as futile as trying to make sense of his short films that he made in film school , - you'll be working against the current hardcore. just indulge yourself while your ass flattens itself out (3 hours later) and try to take it all in. if the quick mis-en-scenes are too much, you always have the wonderful music to fall back on (much of which Lynch scores himself, beautifully so). Psychologically a twisting movie; likely a comment on Hollywood and the film industry, and the most RANDOM of scenes, like these bitches hauntingly dancing to the loco motion while laura dern has a bit of a breakdown. C'est bon... ;)



please note as an utmost postscript, that i fully intended for those images to land themselves in a nice mish-mash and not to align themselves prettily alongside their comments.