cult films

touch of evil: rooney mara
a clockwork orange

a video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film.

+: playlist (including brad pitt, george clooney, gary oldman, kirsten dunst, glenn close, ryan gosling, amongst others)

the strange thing about the johnsons
a dark domestic melodrama/satire about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.
dir.: ari aster
2011 - 28 min.

the pig with the dragon tattoo trailer
(aka the girl with the dragon tattoo parody)
by the muppets 

walt disney + salvador dalí : destino
dir.: dominique monfery
2003

the film tells the story of chronos, the personification of time and the inability to realize his desire to love for a mortal. the scenes blend a series of surreal paintings of dali with dancing and metamorphosis. the target production began in 1945, 58 years before its completion and was a collaboration between walt disney and the american spanish surrealist painter, salvador dalí. salvador dali and walt disney destiny was produced by dali and john hench for 8 months between 1945 and 1946. dali, at the time, hench described as a “ghostly figure” who knew better than dali or the secrets of the disney film. for some time, the project remained a secret. the work of painter salvador dali was to prepare a six-minute sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects for a movie in the same format of “fantasia.” dali in the studio working on the disney characters are fighting against time, the giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of jupiter and that determines the fate of all human novels. dalí and hench were creating a new animation technique, the cinematic equivalent of “paranoid critique” of dali. method inspired by the work of freud on the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images. 

dalí said: “entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are endless.” the plot of the film was described by. dalí as “a magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time.” 

walt disney said it was “a simple story about a young girl in search of true love.”

25 greatest unscripted scenes in films by mewlists

keep the annotations on for the explanation of the scene

i touch a red button man
a short film collaboration by david lynch and interpol
song: lights
album: interpol

movie bridge explosions!

list of films used:
00:06 - a fistful of dynamite (aka ‘duck, you sucker!’) (1971)
00:26 - the bridge on the river kwai (1957)
00:32 - the bridges at toko-ri (1954)
00:33 - the bridge on the river kwai (“madness”) (1957)
00:35 - true lies (1994)
00:43 - the good, the bad and the ugly (1966)
00:45 - hogan’s heroes (1965)
00:47 - the wild bunch (1969)
00:52 - monsters vs aliens (2009)
00:56 - the core (2003)
00:58 - tropic thunder (2008)
01:06 - mission: impossible iii (2006)
01:11 - i am legend (2007)
01:18 - a bridge too far (1977)
01:21 - the long kiss goodnight (1996)

music:
tchaikovsky - 1812 overture, op. 49
(by bernard haitink, royal concertgebouw orchestra)

the 100 greatest movie threats of all time

here is a list of the movies being quoted from:

0’04 - the limey, law abiding citizen, cape fear (1962)
0’33 - fargo, scarface, back to the future part iii, tombstone
1’02 - coogan’s bluff, they live, laughing policeman, the dead pool, casino
1’33 - full metal jacket, major payne, in the loop, good morning vietnam
2’05 - midnight run, the departed, the big lebowski, the blues brothers
2’33 - coming to america, punch-drunk love, goodfellas, casino
3’03 - carlito’s way, kill bill, sudden impact
3’30 - pulp fiction, way of the gun, scream, trading places, the running man, full metal jacket 
3’59 - a few good men, smokey and the bandit, robin hood: prince of thieves, speed, gangs of new york, miller’s crossing, blue velvet
4’31 - wild at heart, the wizard of oz, the long kiss goodnight, the shining
5’00 - anchorman, the man, tank girl, diner, mulan, the goonies, in the loop
5’31 - team america: world police, new jack city, training day, robocop, animal house, harvey, talladega nights
6’01 - the warriors, rocky iv, matchstick men, way of the gun, the big lebowski
6’38 - stand by me, commando, the shawshank redemption, welcome to collinwood
6’57 - the long kiss goodnight, anchorman, step brothers
7’30 - tommy boy, home alone, sexy beast, robocop, monty python and the holy grail, the breakfast club
8’00 - from dusk till dawn, the untouchables, unforgiven, the prophecy
8’32 - true romance, casino, payback, inglourious basterds
9’01 - ripley’s game, way of the gun, pulp fiction
9’28 - home alone, con air, american history x, man on fire
10’05 - taken, patriot games, tropic thunder
10’35 - there will be blood, dead man’s shoes, robocop
10’57 - rambo: first blood, predator, hard to kill 

the royal tenenbaums
song: needle in the hay
artist: elliot smith