Tagged: mood: quirky

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Rushmore

Rushmore is the second feature-length film in director Wes Anderson’s filmography, telling the story of Max Fischer, a very unlikeable, precocious, extracurricular overachieving teenager from a private school obsessively in “love” with Ms. Cross.

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Sound of Noise

Sound of Noise tells the story of a group of musicians that dream of a world with music that is free and available to all. Then, there’s the cop that hates music because he is tone deaf.

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Boy (New Zealand Film)

Boy is the story of Alamein. We follow him in the house he lives in with his grandmother, all of his cousins and his little brother. Boy loves Michael Jackson, the hotter older girl that attends his school and his cool dad that is off somewhere in the world.

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Luna Papa

Luna Papa tells the story of a 17-year-old named Mamlakat who is mysteriously seduced by a no-face man. Next thing she knows, she wakes up in the morning with her torn dress… no longer a virgin.

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Atami no Sousakan

Atami no Sousakan is an 8-episode mystery comedy written and directed by film director Satoshi Miki and starring Joe Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama as two special branch detectives arriving to the city of South Atami to solve the mysterious disappearance of a bus with four schoolgirls from a private school.

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Jónsi – Go

Melodic post-rock band Sigur Rós vocalist Jónsi releases his solo debut. Go starts off full of energy to finally tell the story of a life well-lived. Perfection.

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Kate Nash – My Best Friend is You

After the fresh Made of Bricks, Kate Nash comes back with an album that’s better produced, but loses the rawness of her debut. My Best Friend is You still sounds like Nash, but that bundle of quirky energy has now been contained.

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Juri Ueno and the Five Bags

Ueno Juri to Itsutsu no Kaban (上野樹里と5つの鞄) is the 5-episode mini-series produced by WOWOW, in which Japanese actress Juri Ueno alongside directors Hideta Takahata, Michael Arias, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Takuma Takasaki, and Koji Hagiuda tell five different stories surrounding five different bags.

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Giant (Uruguayan Film)

Gigante tells the story of Jara, a big security guard that works night shifts at a supermarket, who begins having feelings – maybe a bit of stalkery feelings – for the pretty floor cleaner.

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Brothers Bloom, The

The Brothers Bloom is a one of the funniest, most compelling movies I’ve seen this year. It may even bring you up a bit after brain dead fare such as Terminator Salvation.