Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

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Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 1:51pm

Mine:

2001: A Space Odyssey

Brazil

City of Lost Children

Songs from the Second Floor

Natural Born Killers (Surreal, but in a very self concious, stupid way)

#2

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:06pm

Time Bandits

Buckaroo Bonzai

#3

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:09pm

Forbidden Zone
Un Chien Andalou
Alice (the Slavic Alice In Wonderland, not Woody Allen)
The Conspirators of Pleasure

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re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:12pm

AI
Donnie Darko
Mulholland Drive
The Life Aquatic
Punch-Drunk Love
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clockwork Orange
Eyes Wide Shut
Undertow

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re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:18pm

That slavic Alice is truly bizarre & quite obscure, too, borstalboy. I hardly know anyone who's seen it. I've always given credence to your posts, but my respect for you just shot up considerably.

I like Samuel Beckett's short, "Film", starring a very old Buster Keaton.

#6

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:23pm

NOVEMBER

#7

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:30pm

Lost Highway
A Zed and Two Naughts
Gothic
Aria
Songs From the Second Floor
Eraserhead
City of Lost Children
Tuvalu
Law of Desire
Pink Narcissus
Querelle
Salome's Last Dance
Salome/The Forbidden (Clive Barker)

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#8

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:42pm

I'm gonna go with Eraserhead.

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#9

re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:47pm

Naked Lunch

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re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:47pm

Metropolis
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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#11

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:48pm

ya'll have most of the ones i'd choose already, 'cept for track 29.

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#12

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:52pm

I had forgotten about Naked Lunch. Ick!

Also:

Videodrome
Body Double
Crimes of Passion

Weird movies.

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#13

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:53pm

The Day After Tomorrow. The special effects were amazing and it almost felt like I was there. A lot of people posted movies they think are weird, so is that what you meant by surreal movies?

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#14

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:02pm

Broadwaygirl22 - Uh, surreal means it has an intense irrationality or a dreamlike atmosphere or quality. So yes, that is what we meant. What did you think surreal means?

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#15

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:18pm

Most Ken Russell films, including Lair of the White Worm and Salome's Last Dance.

Also:
Liquid Sky (haven't seen it since college -- you have to be stoned to watch it)
Repo Man (another college movie)
The Warriors
The Man Who Fell To Earth

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Updated On: 8/2/05 at 03:18 PM

#16

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:27pm

which warriors, margo? hill's '79 one?

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#17

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:28pm

TOMMY
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

#18

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:31pm

A Clockwork Orange

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#19

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:40pm

Yeah, the '79 version with the various bizarre gangs roaming the streets of NY.

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#20

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:49pm

ok, yeah that's a goodie.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

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he was the gimmicky sort

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#21

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:50pm

Great choices, Margo. I haven't seen either Liquid Sky or Repo Man since their first run. I'll have to remedy that.

#22

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:55pm

Did any of you see Rhinoceros Eyes??? It starred Michael Pitt and Gale Harold. Went to the Angelica to see it with a friend and we simply didn't know what to make of it. It may be the only time I've ever walked out of a movie.

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#23

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:58pm

Pi, and to a lesser extent, Mulholland Drive.

#24

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:59pm

Requiem for a Dream
Elephant
Gerry

#25

re: most surreal films you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:59pm

Almost every David Lynch film is surreal.