What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Willkommen, bienvenue and welcome to the Kit Kat Club, home of outsiders in 1930s Berlin - if you're queer, Jewish or Liza Minelli on the cusp of superstardom, it's the place to be.  Especially, old chum, if you want to ignore the rising brutality of the Nazis, or who tomorrow might belong to. A masterpiece of editing, distraction and distortion. 

“Are you that much of a narcissist?” asks Signe’s boyfriend Thomas, and he doesn’t know the half of it.  Threatened by Thomas’s growing reputation as an artist, Signe becomes ever more desperate for attention....
Bleak and hilarious, which is another way of saying it's a Scandinavian comedy.  

For 59 episodes, we've discussed weirdly wonderful films. For episode 60, we finally answer the question: what the hell do we mean by weird?
How does a film earn the What's Wrong with this Picture stamp of approval? What's the weirdest film we've talked about? What's the film that seemed weird at the time but is now oddly (and sadly) normal? Learn all of this and more as we pull back the curtain on What's Wrong with This Picture: Behind the Music.

Orson Welles' 1959 noir masterpiece sees his racist cop Hank Quinlan dispense his own kind of justice in a one-horse border town. But there's a new type of policeman in Charlton Heston's Vargas, a straight-shooter who's not going to stand for frame-ups and rough handling. Top-notch script, non-stop brilliant camera work and added Marlene Dietrich. Unbeatable. 

Sex and cake and rock'n'roll in Sofia Coppola's post-punk take on the pleasures and perils of being a queen in18th century France. Gorgeous to look at, and another of Kirsten Dunst's masterful performances, ably supported by almost everyone you can think of. Head off to watch this immediately. 

What's bugging them? Mostly alone in a  desert motel room, Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon fall headlong into madness and paranoia. Are they under surveillance? Are insects living under their skin? Is any of it real? And where did that microscope come from?  A true one-off from director William Friedkin. 

A ripe slice of British 80s horror - daddies, daughters, dogs, driving and a date with destiny. Don't miss it.  

Mads Mikkelsen (army guy, taciturn and traumatised) meets three socially-awkward nerds (equally traumatised but far from taciturn) who persuade him they can help him get revenge for the death of his wife. Action/comedy/all the feels ensue. 

"The bleakest film ever made" according to one critic. And he wasn't wrong. Wrongly accused of robbery, Jim Allen (Paul Muni) endures degradation and violence on a depression-era Southern chain gang. Escape offers brief hope but it can't last... Made in 1932 and still packing an enormous and brutal punch to the gut almost 100 years later. 

Director Brian de Palma is known for his understated pastoral films, evoking emotion through silence and the quiet passing of time  ....ha ha, just kidding, his films are crazy and this one's even more bonkers than the rest. 
Margot Kidder brings her usual greatness playing twins Dominique and Danielle, and everyone else is fab too. There's copious nods to Hitchcock, maybe the best use of split-screen anywhere in cinema and lashings of 1970s movie splatter. One for all the family.