Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,

Death, Excessive, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Perverse, Profane, Queer, Rebel, Sensual, Tragic, Visceral

Errol Morris may be always be known as the man who inspired director Warner Herzog to eat his own shoe, but the storied career of the Academy Award winning documentarian has done its own part to establish him as an artist who can surely walk on his own two feet.

Born in New York in 1948, M

Absurd, Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Clever, Collage, Conceptual, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Deconstructive, Dense, Distorted, Dramatic, Dreamy, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Excessive, Expansive, Experimental, Functional, Grand, Gritty, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Improvised, Intense, Ironic, Layered, Manic, Melancholy, Moody, Neurotic, Perceptual, Perverse, Pioneering, Political, Power, Primal, Profane, Psychological, Quirky, Rebel, Rough, Serial, Severe, Smart, Sophisticated, Tense, Tragic, Urban, Violent, Witty

David Lynch has been charged with making incomprehensible films. In fact, they make perfect sense, but not necessarily to us. An exemplary scene in "Fire Walk with Me" (1992) shows this: Two investigators are to receive their assignment from a very odd-looking woman named Lil. What they receive from

Anxiety, Dreamy, Enigmatic, Hallucinatory, Perverse, Quirky, Surreal, Surrealist film

In "Performance," Roeg's first feature film as director, Mick Jagger plays a reclusive rock star who, amid a hedonistic tangle of sex and drugs, insinuates his identity into that of a small-time gangster taking refuge in his home. Making use of his skills as a cinematographer, Roeg splices in images

Avant-garde film, Fantastic, Perceptual, Perverse, Pioneering, Psychological