Shadey (1985)
Feb 12, 2009Psychic Photography
An incomprehensibly, baffling film about a psychic that leaves you wondering what people were thinking when they were making it, let alone how it obtained funding
Film Four International
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Apr 12, 2004The Nuclear Holocaust/Animation
Powerful and biting animated film from a Raymond Briggs book focused on an elderly couple and their wholly inadequate attempts to cope with the outbreak of nuclear war
The Sacrifice (1986)
Dec 3, 2003Praying Back the Nuclear Holocaust
Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, a slow and weighty meditation upon questions of faith as one man prays to turn back a nuclear holocaust
The Deceivers (1988)
Jun 7, 2001Indian Thuggee Cults
Little seen Merchant Ivory film directed by Nicholas Meyer set during the British Raj in India with Pierce Brosnan as a British officer who goes undercover to investigate the Thuggee cults
Alice (1988)
Aug 6, 1999Surreal Claymation Alice in Wonderland Adaptation
A work of bizarre genius from stop-motion animator Jan Svankmajer. A surrealist take on Alice in Wonderland that is more Eraserhead than Lewis Carroll, filled with Svankmajer's bizarre Claymation creatures
Prospero’s Books (1991)
Aug 3, 2000Shakespeare Adaptation
Peter Greenaway gets loose on Shakespeare's The Tempest, indulging his obsessions with lists and multimedia visuals while the costume department goes completely over-the-top
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
The Acid House (1998)
May 1, 1999Irvine Welsh Anthology/Bizarre Transformations
The success of Trainspotting gave birth to this anthology that adapts three Irvine Welsh stories, including episodes in which a man is transformed into a fly and a man swaps minds with a baby