{"id":1889,"date":"2020-05-26T22:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T22:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2020-05-26T22:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T22:58:32","slug":"30-singular-films-to-watch-in-quarantine-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"30 Singular Films to Watch in Quarantine – The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You\u2019ve Seen Before<\/h1>\n
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These films, each unforgettable in its own way, are essential viewing.<\/p>\n

DAVID SIMS<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n

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The word unique<\/em>\u00a0has to be one of the most overused descriptors in show business; if every movie that got touted as one-of-a-kind by its marketing team actually was, there\u2019d be no further complaints about Hollywood creativity. But every once in a while, I\u2019ll have a cinematic experience that feels genuinely unprecedented, when a work plays with the medium and its modes of storytelling in ways I didn\u2019t think possible. The 30 movies I\u2019ve gathered below\u2014all of which are available to watch online\u2014are singular, whether they\u2019re experimental documentaries, visionary works of animation, or labyrinthine epics. Each is unforgettable, and a reminder of cinema\u2019s potential to flout narrative convention, subvert visual traditions, and find new ways to express timeless themes.<\/p>\n
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THE ACT OF KILLING<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2012, DIRECTED BY JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER)<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Joshua Oppenheimer\u2019s documentary focuses on Anwar Congo, an Indonesian gangster believed to have presided over the deaths of thousands during the country\u2019s horrifying anti-Communist purge in the 1960s. But within the film itself are more films\u2014bizarre and mesmerizing ones. That\u2019s because the director encourages Congo and his friends to make their own movies about their experiences, which they render as warped Westerns and musicals, surreal admissions of guilt filtered through their own memories and cultural obsessions. It\u2019s an emotional, sometimes beguiling, and more often horrifying watch, and a way of interrogating unimaginable subjects that I had never seen attempted in a documentary before.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n