Similarly to the latest list by this writer, a few short and animated films worthy of wider recognition are included as well, for some fun and diversity. With a career stuffed full of classics, it’s always inevitable that one or two of the Coen Brothers films were going to slip through the net. In some kind of an underground tunnel, we see an old man in black who sits on a chair, holding a huge shell in his right hand.

1. They are trapped in a ramshackle hospital room – she wants to escape and he seems to be reconciled with the current situation. Much more than just another rom-com, 13 Going On 30 is that rarest of films – a sentimental love story which is full of smarts, and genuinely funny too. The casting is pitch perfect, and while it may be a little unfair to say Keanu Reeves is great as an undercover cop so strung out he’s lost his personality, Reeves sells the desperation and heartbreak well. I’ve never been able to quite understand why Lemony Snicket didn’t explode in the way it should, and get a run of films. The very best of the decade that just was. If a dream could last for infinity, what would happen to the dreamer?
Oh, and it’s easily Val Kilmer’s best ever performance too. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. Disenchanted with the state (of things) and assured of his talents, Ilya Khrzhanovsky is unsparing towards his potential audience, as he fires a continuous barrage of powerful, mostly not so pleasant images from which a somber, fragmented and (almost) surreal tale emerges. Well, the answer is simple – eleven is a bit weirder than ten or twenty and you’ll agree it’s about time one of these weird lists got an odd number of entries. Like the best of modern animation, Treasure Planet excels in both heart and edge-of-the-seat action sequences, while also telling the heart-warming story of a young boy without a father bonding with a murderous space pirate cyborg. Not just a thrilling boy’s own adventure of chasing a French ship across the world during the Napoleonic Wars, but a brilliant character study and look into human nature and the depths of true friendship. Filmed over four years and visiting over 20 countries (including India, Namibia, Italy and Indonesia), it’s like the best looking travelogue you’ve ever seen. comedy that will make you chuckle just because it is so flat. A low-budget affair, “Long Dream (Nagai Yume)” is set in a hospital during the course of a few nights.

A vicious little horror film from 2008, Wolf Creek gained a fearsome and deserved reputation, and provided a nice antidote to somewhat stale franchise offerings. As far as “epic” is concerned, you can expect unearthly shrieks, gore in abundance, some gratuitous nudity and finely choreographed hack ’n’ slash scenes. The Fountain is simply astonishing, an epic romance across the ages which takes in elements of sci-fi, fantasy, historical swashbuckler, and religion, and blends them with acceptance of death as a part of life, while all the time pushing an incredible and moving love story. Accompanied by the fittingly eclectic score, they are intertwined with the “atrocious” stock footage of (orgasmic?) But terrible weird movies … Viggo Mortensen is Tom Stall, a small town restaurant owner who becomes a local celebrity after killing two robbers who threatened the life of one of his waitresses. And why wouldn’t they? Loosely revolving around the comeback of an actress and the filming of her new film, like all of Lynch’s best work, this is as much a riddle to be solved as a piece of entertainment to enjoy. The weird movies of the '90s will live on forever. The fans of Guy Maddin’s oeuvre should definitely check this one out. The Tale of the Floating World (Alain Escalle, 2002) / France | UK | Japan, A boy fishes in the bluest of waters. Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas Day to find her boyfriend has committed suicide. However, the shortage of brain food is compensated by visually inspired animation coming from six directors and their teams. Believe it or not, there are only three of them, but there’s also a narcoleptic bartender serving in an all-night Moscow bar where they encounter each other. With frank discussions about their injuries, sex lives, families and personal lives, this was a documentary that proved the form was every bit as compelling as fictional narratives, and many times more enlightening and rewarding. 5.

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Hell, there are even noirish moments and comic-book-like villains thrown in for good measure! Wish granted, she sets about finding her life has become everything she didn’t want it to be. Capturing the same sense of fun as Big, 13 Going On 30 knows that, as a light hearted fantasy film, it’s not going to change the world, but it can certainly entertain. Proving to the world what his fans had long held to be undoubted (and were probably shocked to discover they were right about), PTA unleashed Adam Sandler’s acting talent, and in a dramatic role too. As long as you don’t take the film seriously as a dark thriller in the same vein as something like Seven, then I guarantee you’ll have a blast with it – piecing together the ludicrous mystery is half the fun, and working out just how it all fits in is a melodramatic delight. Charting the pair’s quirky relationship, the film takes in a beautifully shot trip to Hawaii, and a sub-plot about a sex-line exhortation racket run by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Falling in love over their epic trip, and faced with impossible odds, it’s melodrama in the best tradition, coupled with some stand-out sequences – I defy anyone to name a more intense war scene than the Japanese bombing of Darwin that Luhrmann recreates. The battles are broadcasted in the wee hours and therefore, his popularity has drastically plummeted. Amongst the unlikely heroes and persistent freeloaders, a hooded figure who might be a personification of death and Bulcsú’s love interest who wears a bear suit and fights for justice stand out as the most intriguing (and puzzling). As we learn more than twenty minutes later, he is able to transform into a tattooed CGI giant who wears nothing but underpants, sports Don King meets Spencer of “Eraserhead” haircut and fights similarly sized, building-destroying monsters with a short stick. World War Three as a Conceptual Act The casting of Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris is inspired, with Rockwell giving a performance which is in turns magnetic, unhinged and ultimately believable despite the incredible claims. 6. What's yours? Deeper in the past, a flaming samurai battle occurs…. Who doesn’t want to see dragons fighting apache helicopters? See also: The top 10 underappreciated kids’ films of the past 20 years. Which is a shame, as Inland Empire deserves far more than to be a curiosity in Lynch’s filmography.

And in case you also wonder why weird again, the answer is even simpler – why not?

Its deranged, decidedly artificial atmosphere is established primarily through the twisted sequences composed of brutally fascinating imagery in which the steel and concrete constructions of modern architecture serve as the Playground of Benign Madness. The main characters’ anxiety, mounting dread and doubt of rescue is reflected in the audience, who are all silently thinking, “That could be me…”. On the other hand, there’s a good chance the bizarre monster design and the Ultraman-styled climax will leave you rubbing your eyes in disbelief. Shūkō Murase of “Ergo Proxy” fame provides the most gothic of segments and the most ethereal version of Beatrice in Limbo, and the others follow with their own darkly imaginative renderings of the sinners’ agony, infernal creatures and grotesquely fantastical setting. Proving that he knows how to adapt King’s work, no matter what the genre, Darabont gave us this fantastic sci-fi horror about a group of townsfolk trapped in a supermarket by an otherworldly mist and attacked by fearsome creatures. For those willing to make the effort and get a bunch of friends over, Grindhouse is some of best cinematic fun you can have. Developed at the tail end of the Disney renaissance (the period between The Little Mermaid and Tarzan, where Disney’s hand drawn animation was both a critical and commercial success) Atlantis was harshly judged due both to a post ‘fall of the empire’ malaise and the film-going public’s thirst for CG animation. .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}.