Of The Best Mind- Bending Movies. The 2. 01. 3 Sundance Film Festival will likely go down in history as one of its finer years, with a nearly unparalleled programming slate of movies that got festival goers excited not just about the festival, but cinema in general. And perched at the top of the list of the festival’s best movies (one of the ones that got people excited about cinema as a whole) is easily Shane Carruth‘s lyrical mind- puzzler “Upstream Color” (review here). A film about inceptions, no wait, pig farmers, orchid thieves and dysfunctional relationships, or is it about the nature of love via the nature of all things? The interconnectedness of our daily lives? Walden?”. Carruth’s psychotropic, opaque picture is dense and dream- like, culminating in a masterful final act of only images and music and nary a word of dialogue. It’s a fascinating picture that has left some scratching their heads, but invited others to soak in repeat viewings, desperate to crack its hard- to- decipher code.

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And what’s more — it got us thinking about movies that left us similarly (invigoratingly) perplexed. These are movies that don’t just make you think, they change the way you think; movies that hit you on a visceral and intellectual level. They bruise your brain. It’s with this in mind (and these are nothing if not movies that you think about endlessly) that we compiled our list of 1. They might turn your mind into a soft pretzel they sell at the mall, but you’ll be all the better for it.

Upstream Color” is being released in theater tomorrow, so check it out and give us your thoughts on what made (or should have made) our mind- bending movies list.“Inland Empire” (2. Overflowing with the thematic preoccupations that seem to have haunted David Lynch for the last half of his career in films like “Mulholland Drive,” “Lost Highway” and even ” Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,” the director’s 2. Nearly 3 hours long and his first film not shot on celluloid (lensed on standard definition digital video instead), David Lynch‘s “Inland Empire” might not be, to some, the masterpiece that is “Mulholland Drive,” it is nevertheless still quintessentially weird, disturbing and genuinely unnerving — perhaps the closest Lynch has come to psychological horror since “Eraserhead.” Within the bewildering picture, a film crew is making a movie that they realize after the fact is a type of remake — a movie abandoned during production because the lead actress was murdered midway through filming (the rumor is that the movie is cursed). Laura Dern plays the lead actress in this unnamed film alongside Justin Theroux, a lothario actor known for bedding his co- stars, who has to deal with her extremely jealous and distrustful Eastern European husband. As the script she’s shooting becomes blurred with her reality, Dern’s character(s) becomes increasingly sucked into the picture’s surreal, feverish and authentically nightmarish- tone.

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Featuring Lynch regulars like Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton and co- starring Julia Ormond and Jeremy Irons (with cameos by Mary Steenburgen, Terry Crews, William H. Macy and more), “Inland Empire” is also known for its absurdist elements, like a recurring sitcom- y sequence with human- like rabbits replete with laugh track and all — taken straight from the filmmaker’s web- only video series, “Rabbits” — but Lynch’s picture is strangely coherent and one of his most chilling works.

Inland Empire” was shot without a script and took Lynch two and a half years to make. The filmmaker hasn’t directed a feature since, but ‘Inland’ is a masterful and frightening brainful that one can ruminate on (and revisit) over and over again.“Celine and Julie” (1. The most elliptically playful and joyfully absurd mindbender on this list, though itself not without its nightmarish qualities, Jacques Rivette‘s whimsical and strange “Celine & Julie” is the ‘pop goes the weasel’ meets Alice In Wonderland of brainbusters, albeit a long and winding one, with many contours and colors that runs for an exhausting three and a half hours.

Centering on two female friends (Dominique Labourier and Juliet Berto) who find themselves in a loop they cannot free themselves from, “Celine and Julie” is equal parts buddy travelogue, mystery and creepy ghost tale, which culminates in a haunted mansion with the two Scooby Doo- like detectives who try to help a dead girl discover who killed her. But it’s far less linear than it sounds, more of an opaque cycle of loosely connected themes that coalesce suddenly in the final act like a magic trick pulled off while in a state of hypnosis. Lots of films go down the rabbit hole, but many tend to take themselves too seriously and often don’t have as much fun.

Delirious, creepy and comical, there’s nothing like “Celine And Julie” out there and it’s unlikely this deeply idiosyncratic work will ever be quite matched in its sprawl, ambition and sense of humor.“Pi” (1. Everyone’s gotta start somewhere. And before more polished works like “Requiem For A Dream,” and “The Fountain,” Darren Aronofsky made the low- budget, 1. Pi.” Blending high- end mathematics, Jewish Kabbalah mysticism and numerology, “Pi” is a scrappy, high- energy look at obsessions and conspiracy theories revolving on the elusive and infinite number of Pi — 3. Mount Everest of numbers for mathematicians who have tried and failed to round the number off. The picture, scored to kinetic breakbeats and ’9.

Aphex Twin, Orbital, Autechre and more, follows Max (Sean Gullette) a recluse mathematician trying to break Wall Street’s “code” with his until- then unsuccessful formulas, who is being hounded by a mysterious company who wants him to come work for them. Meanwhile, he meets a number- obsessed Hassid (Ben Shenkman) who ropes him into a new numeric challenge, but is warned by his retired professor (Mark Margolis), that chasing a solution for Pi is a fool’s errand. Max, however, is convinced his teacher fell to a stroke because the exhausting probabilities broke him and in order to discover the deeper mysteries of the number, one has to dance past the edge of madness. Reality bends (as it is wont to do in these movies) and Max finds himself at the nexus of a conspiracy where all parties want the knowledge in his head that’s driving him insane. Pi” is to Aronofsky what “Primer” is to Carruth, and while to compare them does a disservice to both, “Pi” is ultimately still the more successful low- budget debut, if only because it burrows in the head more profoundly in the end.“Last Year at Marienbad” (1. Alain Resnais’ seminal and enigmatic 1. Last Year at Marienbad” is one of the early proto touchstones in the “mind- bending” genre (if we wanna call it that, though for these purposes we will) and while chilly and aloof for many, it’s also tremendously melancholy and haunting; at its core a stylishly lavish and mysterious look at our eternal and existential loneliness.

Perhaps a collection of choreographed moments that exist outside of time, Resnais’ picture centers on a social gathering in an elegant chateau wherein one of the guests, a nameless man (Giorgio Albertazzi) meets a nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) and insists they have met before and she has been waiting for him all along. She knows nothing of this (or is it a game?) and another man (Sacha Pitoëff) might be her husband. Like an eerie and slow- motion game of mathematical nim, the characters in this story slowly pirouette around one another in an emotional and provocatively opaque game of memory, love and longing.

Baffling, dream- like, disorienting and ambiguous, with its flashbacks and sequences and conversations that repeat over and over again like in maddening loop, “Last Year at Marienbad” is usually viewed as either impenetrable nonsense (the nee plus ultra of icy, glacially paced foreign films Americans liked to mock in the ‘7.

Deirdre Mc. Closkey: Articles. Statistics as of February 2. About 3. 70 articles, of which. About 1. 19 full- length scientific pieces, of which 1. And: about 2. 15 short scientific (replies, reviews, and the like; 8 of these co- authored) and 3.

Of all these, 3. 8 were reprinted in English (excluding self- reprinting, so to speak, in my own books) and 2. Dutch, German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese. Note from Mc. Closkey: "The categories in sequence below reflect the rough chronology of my developing interests, 1. I continue to have an interest in, and continue to write in, earlier fields, such as economic history (categories 1–6)—my recent book, for example, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World, 2. Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, and the third and final volume of this series, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World, 2.

British Enterprise in the 1. Century "Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1. Quarterly Journal of Economics 8. May 1. 96. 8): 2.

Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 2. Dec 1. 97. 0): 4. Reprinted 2. 01. 0 in Lars Magnusson, ed. Twentieth- Century Economic History: Critical Concepts in Economics (Oxford: Routledge). International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in Mc. Closkey, ed., Essays on a Mature Economy (1.

Chapter 8, pp. 2. L. G. Sandberg] "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur," Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1. Review of Sandberg's Lancashire in Decline, Journal of Political Economy 8.

Feb 1. 97. 6): 1. Review of Hannah's The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience, American Historical Review 8. Watch Hand 2 Hand Download Full.

Dec, 1. 97. 7): 1. Review of Matthews, Feinstein, and Odling- Smee's British Economic Growth 1. Times Literary Supplement 4. May 6, 1. 98. 3): . Review of Kennedy's Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline, Economic History Review 4. Feb 1. 98. 9): 1. Is America in Decline?" Des Moines Register, Sept 1.

A revised version in The Key Reporter, 6. Winter 1. 99. 4- 1. Trans. and distributed by United States Information Service in Bangladesh. Review of Thurow's The Zero- Sum Solution, Des Moines Register, Jan 9, 1. Competitiveness and the Anti- Economics of Decline," pp. Mc. Closkey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U. S. Economic History (Oxford 1.

British Foreign Trade in the 1. Centuries "Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate," Explorations in Economic History 8 (Winter 1. Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1. Explorations in Economic History 1. July, 1. 98. 0): 3. Forrest Capie, ed. Protectionism in the World Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1.

From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth." Pp. Mc. Closkey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain (1. R. P. Thomas] "Overseas Trade and Empire, 1. Chapter 4 in Floud and Mc. Closkey, The Economic History of Britain, 1. Present (1. 98. 1), Vol.

C. K. Harley] "Foreign Trade: Competition and the Expanding International Economy, 1. Chapter 1. 7 in Floud and Mc. Closkey, The Economic History of Britain, 1. Present (1. 98. 1), Vol. The History of International Finance [co- authored with J. Richard Zecher] "How the Gold Standard Worked, 1.

J. A. Frenkel and H. G. Johnson, eds., The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments (Allen and Unwin, 1. B. Eichengreen, ed., The Gold Standard in Theory and History (Methuen, 1. J. Richard Zecher] "The Success of Purchasing Power Parity: Historical Evidence and Its Implications for Macroeconomics," in Michael Bordo and Anna J.

Schwartz, eds., A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard 1. Watch Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Online Mic. NBER, University of Chicago Press, 1.

Mars Collides with Earth," review of Volcker and Gyohten's Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership, Reason 2. Mar 1. 99. 3): 6. The Extent of the Market: Market Integration in World History." For Lerici Conference on the Market in History, Apr 1. The Gulliver Effect," Scientific American (Sept 1. Used as a text in the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT).

Review of Gray's False Dawn and Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 9(1), Winter 2. On the Money Trail," review of Niall Ferguson's The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1. The American Scholar, Spring 2.

Brief preface, "Globalization and the Money Market," for an edited volume of the Athenian Policy Forum Conference (N. Lash, ed.), 2. 00. Open Fields and Enclosure in England. Note from Mc. Closkey: "I intend, beginning in 2. The Prudent and Faithful Peasant." "The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 3.

Mar 1. 97. 2): 1. The Persistence of English Common Fields," in E.

L. Jones and William Parker (eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History (Princeton University Press, 1. The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis," in Jones and Parker, as cited, pp. English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk," Research in Economic History 1 (Fall 1. Fenoaltea on Open Fields: A Comment," Explorations in Economic History 1. Oct 1. 97. 7): 4.

A Reply to Professor Charles Wilson," Journal of European Economic History 8 (Spring 1. Another Way of Observing Open Fields: A Reply to A. R. H. Baker," Journal of Historical Geography 5 (Oct 1. Scattering in Open Fields: A Comment on Michael Mazur's Article," Journal of European Economic History 9 (Spring, 1. Review of Popkin's The Rational Peasant and Macfarlane's The Origins of English Individualism, Journal of Political Economy, 8. August 1. 98. 1): 8. Reprinted in UCLA Writing Program and in Ellen Strenski, ed., Cross- Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St.

Martin's Press, 1. Comment on Petras and Havens's 'Peasant Behavior and Social Change—Cooperatives and Individual Holdings.'" Pp. Clifford S. Russell and N. K. Nicholson, eds., Public Choice and Rural Development, Washington, D. C., 1. 98. 1. "Theses on Enclosure," pp.

Papers Presented to the Economic History Society Conference at Canterbury, 1. Agricultural History Society. John Nash] "Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England," American Economic Review 7.

Mar 1. 98. 4): 1. Conditional Economic History: A Reply to Komlos and Landes," Economic History Review 4. Feb 1. 99. 1): 1. Review of Turner's English Enclosures, Journal of Economic History 1. Open Field System," brief entry in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan UK, 1.

The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1. David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1. The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields." Journal of Economic History 5. June 1. 99. 1): 3. Allen's Enclosure and the Yeoman: The View from Tory Fundamentalism."}. Other draft chapters in a long unfinished book on the subject, begun in the 1. The Industrial Revolution and the Great Enrichment.

Review of Hohenberg's Economic History of Europe, Kyklos (Nov 1. Review of Hawke's Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1. Economic History Review 2.

Aug 1. 97. 1): 4. Review of Hughes's Industrialization and Economic History: Theses and Conjectures, Journal of Modern History 4.

Mar 1. 97. 2): 9. Review of Davis, Easterlin, Parker et al., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States, Journal of Economic History 3. Dec 1. 97. 2): 9. Review of Williamson's Late Nineteenth- Century American Development, Times Literary Supplement (Dec 1. Review of David's Technology and Nineteenth- Century Growth, Economic History Review 2.

May 1. 97. 6): 3. Review of Reed's Investment in Railways in Britain, American Historical Review 8. Feb 1. 97. 7): 1.