timespace coordinates: (retrofuturistic) Victorian London >Lisbon >Alexandria >Paris
Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara. It stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. Based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, (wiki)
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timespace coordinates: 1960s Massachusetts, the story trails the relationship between two women working at a juvenile detention facility
Eileen is a 2023 psychological thriller film directed by William Oldroyd, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Ottessa Moshfegh who co-wrote the screenplay with her husband Luke Goebel. It stars Thomasin McKenzie, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, and Anne Hathaway. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2006 (post-Katrina) New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Tom Bower, Jennifer Coolidge, Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner, Val Kilmer, and Brad Dourif.
Though the film’s title and story loosely resemble that of Abel Ferrara‘s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, according to Herzog, it is neither a sequel nor a remake; its only commonality is a corrupt policeman as the central character. Nonetheless, the director of the original Bad Lieutenant film, Abel Ferrara, expressed dismay that the Herzog film was being made. Both Bad Lieutenant films were produced by Edward R. Pressman. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1953 to 1980 / 2023 US
The Fall of the House of Usher is an American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. All eight episodes were released on Netflix on October 12, 2023, each directed by either Flanagan or Michael Fimognari, the latter also acting as cinematographer for the entire series.
Loosely based on various works by 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe (most prominently the eponymous 1840 short story), the series adapts otherwise-unrelated stories and characters by Poe into a single nonlinear narrative set from 1953 to 2023. It recounts both the rise to power of Roderick Usher, the powerful CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company and his sister Madeline Usher, the genius COO of the pharmaceutical company, and the events leading to the deaths of all six of Roderick’s children. It stars an ensemble cast led by Carla Gugino as a mysterious woman plaguing the Ushers, and Bruce Greenwood as an elderly Roderick. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1980s small-town Canada
My Animal is a 2023 Canadian supernatural horror romance film directed by Jacqueline Castel in her feature directorial debut. Starring Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg and Stephen McHattie, the film follows a young woman who is forced by her overbearing parents to keep her lycanthropy a secret, until she begins to fall in love with a figure skater. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2010 idyllic Southern California
Kaboom is a 2010 American/French comedy-drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki and starring Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Roxane Mesquida, Kelly Lynch, Chris Zylka, Nicole LaLiberte and James Duval.
A science fiction story centred on the sexual adventures of a group of college students and their investigation of a bizarre cult, the film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the first ever Queer Palm for its contribution to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues. (wiki)
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