Surreal - "having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic". Does anyone have any recommendations? Short films and foreign films would be o.k. too.
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Southland Tales... Oh wait, that was just sh*tty.
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Luis Bunuel movies
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
Carnival of Souls
Spellbound (dream sequences by Salvador Dali)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Seventh Seal
Oh, What a Lovely War
El Topo
Heavy Metal
2001 A Space Odessy
The Trial (1962)
Last Year At Marienbad
The Tin Drum
The Lathe of Heaven (TV)
Vampyr (1931)
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The Red Balloon
Incident at Owl Creek
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
Carnival of Souls
Spellbound (dream sequences by Salvador Dali)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Seventh Seal
Oh, What a Lovely War
El Topo
Heavy Metal
2001 A Space Odessy
The Trial (1962)
Last Year At Marienbad
The Tin Drum
The Lathe of Heaven (TV)
Vampyr (1931)
Shorts:
The Red Balloon
Incident at Owl Creek
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Most people don't think of it that way, but The Conversation contains almost equal parts of "documentary" and surrealism. The original A Nightmare on Elm Street is almost pure surrealism. Movies with drugs also fall into surrealism sometimes, and my fave acid trip is in Easy Rider. The grandaddy of surrealism for me is Alice in Wonderland and Disney's version is the ultimate surrealistic flick to me, far exceeding Yellow Submarine. However, I'd definitely say that Buñuel is the master of surrealism. Even his "straightest" movies (say, Robinson Crusoe) are awash with surrealistic flourishes.
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awesome, awesome, awesome! I've needed new movies to look into and you guys have given me a bunch. Thanks for the recommendations and if you think of anymore let me know.
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Every David Lynch movie..yes, even the Elephant Man has surreal scenes in it, in my eyes.
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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i don't know about "surreal", but the straight story definitely has some weird, disturbing things happening.
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How could i foget one of my all time favorite movies (see Fave Movie list )...funny i never considered it a surreal movie though...anyways...great choices..anyone who reccomends this movie in any thread deserves a million thumbs up
cheers then!
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Bunuel's and Dali's "Andalusian dog". It's around 16 minutes long and damn, you need to watch it with a walk trough or something.
Also, "Clockwork orange". I watched it with Czech subtitles (I'm Polish) and it is even more surreal when you don't understand half of the dialogue.
Also, "Clockwork orange". I watched it with Czech subtitles (I'm Polish) and it is even more surreal when you don't understand half of the dialogue.
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The Straight Story?
....yep...all his movies..the master of surreal cinema...
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It's been a long time since I last saw The Straight Story, probably back when it first came out on video. Personally, I wouldn't use the word surreal to describe it. I wouldn't call Lynch a "Master" either, but that's just me.
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