As a public service,
and entirely without regard to my own fiscal well being, I spend a fair amount
of time prowling the revival houses and museums of L.A. checking out movies
I’ve never seen. Some are well-known classics; others are wildly obscure.
Here are this year’s
favorites, in the order I saw them:
THE HEART OF THE WORLD (2000)
Winnipeg-based indie filmmaker Guy Maddin makes strange,
brooding, semi-abstract David Lynch-ian meditations, frequently and freely
mixing styles and techniques from...