Park Chan-Wook’s ‘Oldboy’ (2003): Reel to Real
The second of Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, ‘Oldboy’ combines beauty and perversion, horror and grace with unprecedented virtuosity.
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Zack Snyder’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (2004): Reel to Real
American mainstream cinema rarely strays into the Other Side’s territory – never mind American remakes of cult classics. That’s where Zack Snyder comes in.
Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Let the Right One In’ (2008): Reel to Real
Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Let the Right One In’ reimagines a modern vampire fable with great acting, endearing characters, and a contrapuntally hopeful score.
Shinya Tsukamoto’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ (1989): Reel to Real
Lovers of the dark, fans of industrial and all cyberpunks take note: Shinya Tsukamoto’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ is movie heaven.
Adrian Lyne’s ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (1990): Reel to Real
The guy who directed ‘Ghost’ somehow created an intricate, haunting puzzle. ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ is simply immune to the exhaustion of repeated viewing.
Ken Russell’s ‘Altered States’ (1980): Reel to Real
Director Ken Russell’s deliciously over-the-top movie follows a scientist’s increasingly precarious and otherworldly investigations into altered states.
Christopher Lee and ‘The Wicker Man’ (1973): Reel to Real
Grandmaster of magic and suspense Christopher Lee said his favorite role was a merry jaunt as Lord SummerIsle in ‘The Wicker Man.’
‘The Short Films of David Lynch’ (2002): Reel to Real
David Lynch is really a genre unto himself, immediately conjuring up those unhinged, paranoid, disturbingly beautiful fever-scapes so peculiar to him.
‘Fight Club’ + ‘Man on the Moon’ (1999): Reel to Real
This edition of Reel to Real returns to a pair of challenging, but always intriguing films released in 1999 by directors David Fincher and Milos Forman.
Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ (1997): Reel to Real
Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ arrived 25 years ago as an ingenious meditation on hyper-gratuitous violence in mainstream cinema.
