Greatest WTF Films
You know the feeling - you invest 90-120 minutes in a movie and at the end you turn to your companion or ask yourself "WHAT DID I JUST SEE?" Best experienced in a theater with a full audience at a film festival premiere, complete with angry reactions, walkouts and awkward post-screening Q&A sessions.
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- DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.You too can make a mumblecore "sci-fi" fantasy for $50!
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMatthew ModineNicolas CageJohn HarkinsAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.This is not a bad film... it's the ending that earns the WTFery.
- DirectorTom KalinStarsJulianne MooreEddie RedmayneStephen DillaneA dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...It took me awhile before I could watch Julianne Moore in another film.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsRachel KorineBrian KotzurTravis NicholsonFollows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.WTFery from start to finish, yet oddly compelling, especially the catchphrases and songs.
- DirectorJulian GoldbergerStarsPaul GiamattiMichelle WilliamsMichael PittWhen stricken with a family tragedy, George becomes obsessed with taming a wild, red-tail hawk. In a tour-de-force performance he locks himself into a battle of wills with a fierce creature that would rather die than succumb.Moves at a snail's pace. Every character is unlikable and drenched in sweat. That poor bird!
- DirectorDeborah KampmeierStarsDakota FanningDavid MorsePiper LaurieA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.It's never a good harbinger of Things To Come when a panting, slobbering inbred guy wants to see a child sing Elvis songs in her underwear.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.Misogyny taken to undreamed-of-levels. Poor Willem Dafoe! Poor Charlotte Gainsbourg! Poor Clutch Cargo CGI talking fox!
- DirectorRick AlversonStarsTim HeideckerEric WareheimJames MurphyIndifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity and irreverence.Where?
- DirectorLewis HelferStarsLewis HelferMelissa SagemillerTovah FeldshuhBrian Leib, a thirty-two year old, ritualistic neurotic recluse who lives with his paranoid parents, only leaves his house to see his psychiatrist. His days are kept as simple as the loaf of bread he makes every morning; the first slice his breakfast, the last slice his dessert--this gives him a "sense of closure for the day." On the verge of jumping he finds a tumor on his neck. Through this new found bad news he gets the strength to talk to Claire, another patient of his psychiatrist's. Claire, a beautiful stripper with a badly stained childhood lets her male guard down and lets Brian in. In order to protect Claire, Brian gets involved with a motley crew of gangsters, faces his fears and gains the will to live... but is it too late?Jump!
- DirectorCrispin GloverStarsMichael BlevisCarlos RichardsonLisa FuscoWhat Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.Indeed.
- DirectorRobinson DevorStarsCoyoteJenny EdwardsJohn EdwardsA look at the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.If PETA is going to protest anything, this should be WAY at the top of the list.
- DirectorVincent GalloStarsVincent GalloChloë SevignyCheryl TiegsProfessional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.I can't with this one. Seriously.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Marc StehléAgatha CoutureMathias DomahidyThe passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.Granted, I was at the infamous TIFF screening where the subtitles didn't function, adding extra levels of confusion. Still haven't figured out what Patti Smith was supposed to be in the greater scheme of things. If only we'd known the cruise ship in the opening segment was the Costa Concordia, doomed to end up wrecked in two years...