Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Most 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)
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: 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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#3re: 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
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#4re: 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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: 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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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#7re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:42pmI'm gonna go with Eraserhead.
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#8re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:47pmNaked Lunch
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#9re: Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:47pm
Metropolis
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#10re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:48pmya'll have most of the ones i'd choose already, 'cept for track 29.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
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#11re: 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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#12re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 2:53pmThe 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?
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."
#13re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:02pmBroadwaygirl22 - 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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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: 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
#15re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:27pmwhich warriors, margo? hill's '79 one?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#16re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:28pm
TOMMY
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
#17re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:31pmA Clockwork Orange
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#18re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:40pmYeah, the '79 version with the various bizarre gangs roaming the streets of NY.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#19re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:49pmok, yeah that's a goodie.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#20re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:50pmGreat choices, Margo. I haven't seen either Liquid Sky or Repo Man since their first run. I'll have to remedy that.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#21re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:55pmDid 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.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#22re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:58pmPi, and to a lesser extent, Mulholland Drive.
#23re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:59pm
Requiem for a Dream
Elephant
Gerry
#24re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 3:59pmAlmost every David Lynch film is surreal.
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