The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Feb 12, 2001Miraculous Child/Meta-Fiction
Peter Greenaway film about a woman claiming her baby is divinely conceived. As fascinating for Greenaway's constant visual games as for the film's brutal taboo-defying impact
Julia Ormond
Nostradamus (1994)
Oct 28, 2001Historical Biopic of a Clairvoyant
Biopic of the so-called prophet Nostradamus, although this seems more interested in depicting him as a progressive thinker of his era than as a prophet. Directed by Roger Christian who next went on to make Battlefield Earth
First Knight (1995)
May 27, 2002Arthurian Legends
A version of the Arthurian legends that has essentially stripped out Merlin and all of the magic and mounted it as an historical romance. With Sean Connery as King Arthur and Richard Gere as Lancelot
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Oct 31, 2005Scandanavian Murder Mystery/SF Twist
Adapted from an acclaimed book, Julia Ormond stars as an Icelandic heroine in a detective story with an SF twist
Inland Empire (2006)
Aug 17, 2007Surrealism
Probably the most divided of David Lynch's films, another delve into cryptic surrealism that arrives at no clear plot destinations or clues about what is going on
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Jan 1, 2009Twin Psycho-Thriller
Widely ridiculed psycho-thriller starring Lindsay Lohan, at the height of her tabloid headline party girl phase and giving a zero effort performance, as twins. But quite what is going on in the confused screenplay is anybody's guess
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Dec 30, 2008Man Ages in Reverse
David Fincher makes a surprisingly positive and upbeat Academy Awards crowd-aimed film in which Brad Pitt is a man who ages in reverse, born as an old man and progressively getting younger as he goes through life
Chained (2012)
Jun 30, 2013Serial Killer and His Young Companion
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David, makes an extraordinary work about the relationship between a serial killer and his young male companion. A film that eschews big dramatics with startling effect. Vincent D'Onofrio gives one of his best performances
Rememory (2017)
Sep 18, 2017Memory Recording Device
Film about a device that can record and play back memory. This comes with a reasonable cast and received some theatrical play. The great disappointment is the idea is never used for anything more than a mundane murder mystery