Thomson, an avid, idiosyncratic movie critic, chases his subjects with free-associative license.
Played by the Icelandic pop singer Bjork, Selma escapes her life of drudgery with fantasies that place her at the center of an idiosyncratic movie musical.
Seen in fast forward, the career of David Thomson — the avid, idiosyncratic movie critic — looks more like a klatch session than a formal lesson in the history of film.
(Holden) ★ 'Letters From the Big Man' (No rating, 1 55) A contemporary neo-frontierswoman (Lily Rabe) makes an unexpected connection with a sasquatch (the Big Man) while off in the Oregon woods in Christopher Munch's lovely, delightfully idiosyncratic movie.
What might also serve the festival is to have juried awards for films by foreign directors, since the world cinema section has often spotlighted intensely idiosyncratic movies.
(It's actually one of Ford's most idiosyncratic movies, with Ward Bond playing a version of Ford himself, the director John Dodge — another make of automobile).
She is beautiful, but she is not twig-thin; she lives outside London rather than in Los Angeles; and most of all, she has turned down big-budget superstar roles in favor of idiosyncratic movies like "Holy Smoke," in which she played a woman under the sway of an Indian guru, or "Quills," her latest film, which opens on Nov. 22 and which chronicles the last days of the Marquis de Sade.
It veers off in directions that are as surprising as they are idiosyncratic; the movie's identity is distinctive and integral — it really is a unique experience.
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," Ang Lee's ambitious, uneven and heroically idiosyncratic new movie, follows a U.S. Army unit on a premature victory tour during the early days of the Iraq War.
But the movies people love — both the idiosyncratic, ambitious movies that spark passions and start arguments and the hugely popular, hugely expensive genre movies that are Hollywood's global cash crop — have become marginal.
There are full hearts all over town, as really cool, idiosyncratic little movies – "Capote," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Crash" – demonstrated not only that they can play with the Big Boys, but they can clobber them.
