{Calvaire}
This is a re-post of a few films just released on DVD. If you've seen this already, look away...
Marc Stevens’ world goes profoundly and utterly wrong. When his car breaks down in the middle of the isolated backcountry, he’s forced to seek refuge in a rural inn. Marc is taken in by Bartel, a lonely and psychologically fragile innkeeper who promises to help. But when Marc catches him dismantling his car, he realizes that the innkeeper has other plans for him. Fabrice Du Welz directs this gruesome French horror.
View the trailer here.
{The Puffy Chair}
The Puffy Chair is a simple yet strangely elegant story of a man trying to get his father the perfect birthday gift and the strange events that he, his girlfriend and his tag-along brother encounter along the way.
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The indie-heavy soundtrack features music from: Death Cab, Decibully, Spoon, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Matt Pond PA, and Of Montreal. Stream the tracks from The Puffy Chair's MySpace.
Here's a couple of tracks:
Matt Pond PA - "Closer" (Courtesy of bands' site)
Of Montreal - "Disconnect The Dots" (Courtesy of Polyvinyl Records)
{Art School Confidential}
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him. The film is directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of Ghost World) and written by Daniel Clowes (author of Ghost World).
View the trailer here.
