• House
  • The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Poor Things
  • The Twentieth Century

fabricated reality (matte painting, miniatures, stagecraft, greenscreen)

Live-action films that blend reality and matte painting/backdrops/greenscreen or feel like they're in an elevated stage-play environment. The kind of…

  • Relaxer
  • Sada
  • Mandy
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Twentieth Century

composure & chaos

films that are paradoxically both ruminative and bombastic.

and/or

films that have very composed shots, but contain chaos.

and/or

films…

  • Death Proof
  • The Twentieth Century
  • Mandy
  • The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
  • The Man Who Wasn't There

forgery cinema (or: the art of imitation)

Films with a heightened reality that imitate the texture and style of older movies in a way that feels like…

  • Sorry to Bother You
  • L'Argent
  • Greener Grass
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • House

MAXIMALIST/minimalist

Double feature with a maximalist film followed by a palate cleansing minimalist film. Each shares a common theme, but with…