Good "surreal" movies

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:19 pm

i have never taken a single real film class in my life

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:22 pm

big fish or dark city.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:23 pm

big fish is a good call, underrated movie that would fit well with Dap's original picks

christopher walken · Post by **christopher walken** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:26 pm

well, you're clearly well-versed. and, being that i slept through three quarters of Battleship Potemkin and a good portion of Citizen Kane, and it was nearly twenty years ago, maybe i haven't either.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:29 pm

christopher walken wrote:well, you're clearly well-versed. and, being that i slept through three quarters of Battleship Potemkin and a good portion of Citizen Kane, and it was nearly twenty years ago, maybe i haven't either.

now that's pretty surreal

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:34 pm

brazil is one of my favorite movies.

you probably watched man ray/bunuel/coteau/dulac/tarkovsky/jodorowsky/greenaway/etc

so what I remember now (and won't be mentioned - probably):

→
the wayward cloud by ming-liang tsai
la perle by henri d' ursel
3-Iron by kim ki duk
yesterday girl by alexander kluge
pitfall by teshigahara
to die in the country by terayama
the devil by zulawski
the beautiful prisoner by robbe-grillet
temptation of st. tony by veiko ounpuu
flickorna by zetterling!
les vampires by feuillade
la cicatrice interieure by garrel
uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives by apichatpong
the spirit of the ceehive by victor erice
vengeance trilogy (sympathy for mr vengeance etc.) by park
last year at marienbad by resnais
fruit of paradise by chytilov

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:48 pm

brazil is a surreal movie now?

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:04 pm

^ lol

mike eagle · Post by **mike eagle** » Wed May 25, 2011 9:21 pm

just saw santa sangre...really enthused to check out el topo and holy mountain.

I feel like Dune altho its sci-fi could fit in this category as well

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:02 pm

I don't know if anyone has recommended any animated films, but this one fits the theme I think.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed May 25, 2011 11:16 pm

Tweak Da Leak wrote:brazil is a surreal movie now?

i don't want to post explicit spoilers but i could literally give you a laundry list of surrealist themes and images in brazil. consider what happens to deniro, as just one small example

if you don't want to take my word for it, google it. there are actually scholarly writings on this topic. not just this movie but guilliam's whole filmography, going back to python days, is full of it

Dap · Post by **Dap** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:51 pm

any new movies that fit this thread?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:54 pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686327/

haven't seen it yet but people tend to describe it as 'the entire movie happens inside the black lodge in twin peaks' so that's def a promising indicator of surrealist qualities

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:09 pm

Never even heard of The Oregonian

Kill List might fit this category.

Radio Raheem · Post by **Radio Raheem** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:15 pm

Best.
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Do Miike's movies fall in this category?
Gozu seems like a prime example of surrealism taken to it's extreme
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perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:01 am

and the movie that started me on my bottomless surrealist appetite:

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:20 am

The Bothersome Man is really dope. The movie is making fun of the overly polite and sterile Scandinavian society, which is pretty funny, but I think the artist-in-ivory-tower perspective is a bit offensive and crude.