From animation to epic sci-fi to intimate dramas, here’s our pick of the 50 finest foreign language films of the past ten years. GUMMO (1. 99. 7) 3. Weird Movies“When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo, it knocked me off my chair. ”–Werner Herzog. DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine. FEATURING: Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Reynolds, non- professionals chosen for their freakish looks. PLOT: A tornado devastated the town of Xenia, Ohio in the 1. Twenty years later, a teenager (Tummler) and a younger tagalong (Solomon) hunt feral cats, selling them to the local grocer for money they use to buy sniffing glue and trysts with a fat, mentally disabled prostitute. Meanwhile, other white- trash characters roam the landscape unsupervised, including two trashy teen girls who seem to be raising their kid sister and a shirtless mute boy who wears pink bunny ears. Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton (2017) Lucky (2017) A Question of Faith. Watch Superman and Batman: Apocalypse (2010 -) Online Full Movie. Watch and Dowload Free Cartoons for Kids on Kiss Cartoon. Watch Tom and Jerry and The Wizard of Oz (2011) full movie, Watch Tom and Jerry and The Wizard of Oz (2011) online free putlocker, Watch Tom and Jerry and The Wizard. Cast and crew credits, reviews, technical information, box office results, trivia, trailer, pictures and message board. Empire lists the best animated characters, from CGI, hand drawn and stop motion films, from the masters at Dinesy Pixar, DreamWorks and Aardman. BACKGROUND: Harmony Korine (who is male) had previously written script for Kids (1. He was given $1. 5 million and free reign by Fine Line Features (the now- defunct “independent” branch of New Line Pictures) to create exactly the picture he wanted to. A devastating tornado really did hit Xenia, OH in 1. Gummo was the fifth Marx brother, who left the group before they began their successful film career. Although critical reaction was largely negative (scoring a disappointing 2. Rotten Tomatoes tomatomer at press time), several established directors—Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean- Luc Godard, Gus Van Sant, and Erol Morris—expressed admiration and support for the picture. INDELIBLE IMAGE: No one forgets the scene of Solomon eating spaghetti and chocolate in the grimy bathtub with oily green water (with, as Werner Herzog marveled, bacon taped to the walls). The most illustrative image, however, may be when “Bunny Boy” (the shirtless waif wearing pink bunny ears) thrusts a dead cat at the camera. This vision brings to mind the act of this director presenting this work to his audience. WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Gummo looks a lot like what might result if someone took home movies from that embarrassing, welfare- addicted branch of the family no one likes to talk about and mixed them in a blender with the final project short films from the NYU Film School graduating class of ’9. Brief clip from Gummo. COMMENTS: Gummo is an exasperating film that compels the viewer mainly through the odd fascination of watching an avant- garde train wreck. There is the barest shred of a plot, in that three or four of the incidents depicted have a cause- and- effect relationship with scenes that occur later, but overwhelmingly it is an impressionistic series of shots, stills, sound clips and vignettes meant to evoke a feeling of hopelessness for the bottom- feeding strata of American society commonly known as “white trash. ” The folks of Xenia, OH, as depicted in Gummo, sport mullets and are forbidden to buy Big Gulps anywhere that a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” policy is strictly enforced. No one in town shows any ambition or passion, with the exception of one character who practices tennis diligently, thanks to Ritalin. No one seems to have a job, except for three boys who hunt cats and a well- spoken but perverted gossip columnist (who may come from the town next door; his purpose is to show how the middle class looks down on the residents of Xenia). Even the sex and the drugs in this backwater burgh are depressing and second rate (the rock ‘n roll, mostly Slayer and other grim heavy metal bands, is an acquired taste). There may be a sort of love there, but it’s twisted beyond recognition and made ugly: Solomon’s mother feeding him spaghetti in the bathtub, or threatening to shoot him if he won’t smile for her. Gummo is like the low- rent, bad taste America imagined by John Waters, if Waters envisioned that world as a tragedy rather than a comedy. This sort of half- existence, which millions of people actually endure, would be bleak enough if it were depicted with stark realism. Directorscripter Harmony Korine chooses to exaggerate the ugliness by casting his film with real- life freaks, including a macrocephalic dwarf (who is also ambiguously gay) and an albino making a dating video who proclaims she has webbed toes. Even the “normal” people were cast for their odd faces: with his angular features and untamable hair, Solomon is the weirdest looking kid you’re likely to see, and the two sisters have bleached their hair to an unnatural, trying- too- hard shade past the bounds of blond. Most of the extras are either emaciated or grotesquely obese, and at least one actress had Down’s Syndrome. The concoction of human oddities suggests that at least part of this town’s problems may stem from inbreeding. Korine’s more significant technique for nightmarizing this downbeat milieu is to fracture what little narrative there is. Most of the scenes involving the main characters depict purposeless meanderings: the two bleached- blond sisters wander the streets talking about boys and bulimia, Tummler and Solomon sniff glue and stare into space or ride around aimlessly on their bicycles. These scenes are interrupted by plotless, documentary- like sequences featuring minor characters: bored skinhead brothers who box with each other in an interminable bout, or a scene with Xenia’s supposed adults, who arm wrestle in a dingy kitchen during a Friday night beer- bash until they get bored and break the furniture to bits accompanied by hoots of encouragement. One of these scenes may be followed by an experimental sketch where a bored- sounding voice tells a story about being molested by her father while distressed Super- 8 films of the town play until her voice is drowned out by the electronically mutated chirps of insects and birds. Or, clips from an amateur Satanist production of heavy metal video may play, or Bunny Boy may be shown sitting on a toilet playing an accordion. There’s a careful nonsense to the order of the scenes. Even in a single scene, a line of dialogue will drift off casually into a non- sequitur, as when Tummler’s father begins telling the boy about his mother and shifts to an anecdote from his childhood about a neighbor’s wife who used to wander around the house in her underwear. (None of this is made more interesting by the fact that the non- actors in the movie deliver all their lines without a hint of recognizable human emotion). Korine amplifies and distorts the randomness of real life to make his characters’ existence seem even more absurd and pointless. While this nebulous narrative style may suit the half- formed themes Korine wants to explore, it doesn’t make for a pleasant viewing experience; Gummo is a picture to endure rather than to savor. I couldn’t help, while watching, to think that Tom Waits could have created a beautiful ballad about exactly these sorts of bizarre lowlifes. Of course, he would bring out the poetry, romance and humanity in these characters by channeling their tales into melody, verse and structure: basically, by making it into art. Such a “prettifying” of this world would ring false to Korine. A starightforward, coherent narrative would have given his characters a false sense of purpose, a false possibility of growth and escape. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important a. Bicycle bags, racks, fenders, lights, computers, pumps, helmets, shoes, and tools for sale at Bainbridge Island bike shop located near Seattle ferry dock. Discover Top Rated, Most Viewed, and Editorial Picked Kidnapping Movies on AllMovie. 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