Post by RNL on Jan 14, 2006 16:54:30 GMT
Some more that have caught my eye:
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Paul Weitz
Lonely Hearts Todd Robinson
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Tommy Lee Jones
Anybody influenced by Béla Tarr gets my vote, so:
Krisana Fallen Fred Kelemen
And, lastly - o hosanna - it looks like Jodorowsky will actually make another film. Marilyn Manson (at whose wedding Jodorowsky recently officiated) has been quoted as saying that their long-gestating collaboration is back in the works. I'm going to be the starry-eyed optimist and hope that it gets made this year.
King Shot Alejandro Jodorowsky
I really, really hope this one gets off the ground. I heard April for a start date. I'd actually prefer to see this than a belated sequel to El topo.
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Paul Weitz
During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Lonely Hearts Todd Robinson
In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Ironically, Ray's initial introduction to Martha was as a prospective mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight, perhaps as a result of their penchant for kinky sex and their mutual love for duplicity and easy money. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and then viciously murdered them in a bloodbath of sexual frenzy. When they were arrested, Martha and Ray confessed to 12 killings, although it is believed the actual number is closer to 20. At their sensational trial, Martha and Ray cooed, held hands and seemed as though they could not get enough of each other. Their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected, and on August 22, 1949, the homicidal lovers were sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, they were electrocuted on March 8, 1951, side-by-side in Sing Sing prison. Writer-director Todd Robinson's grandfather, Elmer Robinson, was the detective who broke the case.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Tommy Lee Jones
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Anybody influenced by Béla Tarr gets my vote, so:
Krisana Fallen Fred Kelemen
Matiss Zelcs is a quiet archivist living in the Latvian capitol of Riga. On his way home from work one dark evening, Matiss spies a woman standing silently on a nearby bridge. When Matiss hears what sounds like a splash followed by muffled screaming, he returns to the bridge to find no evidence of foul play. Though a cynical detective is reluctant to devote time to the case due to general apathy and a lack of evidence, a local bartender offers a helpful lead when he unexpectedly produces the woman's purse. Compelled by the photographs contained in the purse and driven by the discovery of numerous unfinished love letters in a nearby garbage bin, Matiss sets out to question Alexi Mesetzkis - the man who, despite being photographed with the missing woman, does not appear to be her husband.
And, lastly - o hosanna - it looks like Jodorowsky will actually make another film. Marilyn Manson (at whose wedding Jodorowsky recently officiated) has been quoted as saying that their long-gestating collaboration is back in the works. I'm going to be the starry-eyed optimist and hope that it gets made this year.
King Shot Alejandro Jodorowsky
In the words of its creator: "A metaphysical spaghetti gangster film" about a "200 year-old carnivorous Pope" who lives in a pit like a trapdoor spider, eats ostriches, rapes women, and has teeth on his lips like thorns. ...Yes please.
I really, really hope this one gets off the ground. I heard April for a start date. I'd actually prefer to see this than a belated sequel to El topo.