Directed by Wim Wenders • 2000 • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Starring Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies
Based on a story by Bono and featuring a soundtrack by U2, Wim Wenders’s dreamy, surreally stylized vision of life on the margins unfolds in a rundown Los Angeles hotel populated by a coterie of misfits, drifters, and eccentrics. When the death of a resident (Tim Roth) draws an FBI agent (Mel Gibson) into their strange, insular world, truth and delusion begin to blur. Told through the eyes of the tender-hearted Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), who is hopelessly in love with the enigmatic Eloise (Milla Jovovich), THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL finds strange poetry in a world of decaying beauty.
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Barton Fink
Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy DavisThe Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictu...
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Mystery Train
Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1989 • United States
Starring Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Nicoletta BraschiAloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in MYSTERY TRAIN, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made...
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Hôtel du Nord
Directed by Marcel Carné • 1938 • France
Hotel Du Nord isn't as well known as the two movies Marcel Carné made before and after, Port Of Shadows and Le Jour Se Lève. But any Carné, especially pre-war Carné (and doubly so with Arletty in the cast), is worth seeing. Annabella is the star of this d...
