Surreal and Strange movies
 

Ive fallen in love with really strange movies. Eraserhead and Naked Lunch are just awesome. doesn anyone have any suggestions as for movies to watch that are way out of the ordinary, and are kind of like the two i mentioned before?

- Tetsuo - iron man
- Un chien andalou

Lisztomania all the way, baby

good list. keep them coming.

Uzumaki

Also, try some Jan Svankmajer films.

Izo
Jacob's Ladder
The Wall
Brazil (WATCH THIS)
The Happiness of the Katakuris

Some of these more surreal than others.

Definately what Pressure said, Begotten. If your looking for something surreal and just down weird and different than this is the movie for you, especially the 1st 10 minutes, freaky stuff.

Get stoned and watch Breakfast of Champions.


Oldboy
Dark Crystal
Funny Games
3 Extremes
I dunno that those are neccesarily in the same vein, but they are pretty odd in their own rights.

Little Otik is wonderful and he has a cool collection of shorts

seek out Chris Cunningham's music videos and shorts

Anything by Alejandro Jodorowsky, especially El Topo and Santa Sangre

Umm... Fantasia!

The Nutcracker Suite portion. I like the music....


Honestly, i dont care for a lot of surreal movies. I have found most of the ones i have seen to be more style over substance, blah blah blah.

However, if we are counting just about naything Terry Gilliam has made, I lOVE 12 Monkeys. It has my #1 favorite Brad Pitt character ever, Jeffery Goines.

Nacho Cerdà's The Awakening and Genesis. Aftermath gets the most discussion but both of those flicks were fun and surreal.

Videodrome
Big Lebowski (maybe not for some)
Tetsuo
Spider
Pi was pretty good...

pan's labyrinth.........i got more interested in the whole political thing

requiem for a dream... its not surreal, its just too real for comfort.

and don't forget Jacob's Ladder...trippy

donnie darko (a must have)
pi
mulholand drive
waking life

Here's a silly movie that I liked despite its silliness...

"T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous"

Mixes surreality with education. Also in a weird way captures the dreamlike, netherworldly quality of museums.

it was pretty cool ... short movie though - an imax feature wasnt it ?

Yes, it was an IMAX film, and I actually saw it in 3D when it was in the IMAX theatres--not bad! And I rented it later and watched it flat. And it still was pretty okay! I think it's only 45 minutes or something like that. But I think the idea was that when you wander around inside a dark quiet museum, time sorta dissolves and everything becomes dreamlike. If that was the concept, I thought the film realized it very well.

I already have Alice on my amazon cart. which is the best of his films?

I really dig Little Otik. I know Rod would back me up on that one.

ya i heard someone tell me about it once...something about a raising a tree stump.

Yeah, but it's somehow totally engrossing. It isn't just the "wierdness" either, the story is told with a real pathos and a real sense of impending dread. The effects are unnerving and the story feels like the creepiest kind of fairy tale.

Ugh I hated it.... Thought it was just a weird, random piece of crap. And darkness/light/darkness...


Those kinds of things just dont appeal to me.....

It reminds me of a story that would be presented in Struwwelpeter or a Gorey book.

i guess ill take it off the cart
so how about his film, 'faust'?

my cousin saw his new film at a film festival. named 'lunacy'. said it was pretty damn wierd. stop animation with meat and all.

how about this one?
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...122566327_.jpg
lol

Disney + Bunuel... YIKES! I'll have to get that one heh. I think I've only seen Alice, when I was younger, it's in my netflix que to see again because I liked it back then.

how is "Delicatessen"? supposed to be pretty damn good.

it is !

i wouldnt call it surreal though ...

darn. what would you consider it then?

anyone seen this one?http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...056709255_.jpg

futuristic comedy fantasy (black humor)

it has a linear story line ..

speaking of surrealism, ive been making a very strange stop animation/claymation film. il post a youtube link on here when im done with it.

If you liked Eraserhead, check out Lynch's early short films. They're in the same vein, but not quite as deep, I'd say. Otherwise, you could try finding Woman in the Dunes. It's a very strange little film, and very hard to find. Also, maybe some shorts by the Brothers Quay?

Lynch's "Six Men Getting Sick" plays like a nightmare - it's amazingly abrasive

Pink Floyd The Wall

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

A fantastic epic into the surreal, and the greatest score to a motion picture ever. Bizarre, trippy, frightening, and complex.

An absolute classic masterpiece.

where can i find it?

The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)

it contains the following shorts and each film is preceded by an introduction from the director.

Six Men Getting Sick
The Alphabet
The Grandmother
The Amputee
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Lumiere

not all brilliant, but all of them are revealing