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Most Surreal Films You've Ever Seen?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#25re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:04pmOooooh. Eraserhead. Another one I haven't seen since college -- surreal must have been big in the 80s.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#26re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:05pm
Believe it or not, they are remaking Warriors. I think it's coming this fall. I hope they don't change a thing- The Baseball Furies are what a gang ought to be.
Or course, the Most Surreal film ever, Monkey lightbulb dishwasher! Copier, tugboat eggplant boomerang lightswitch lightswitch, on a dingy, poodle hairdryer ventricle. Walking, underpass, standing, yodel, jumprope monkey eggplant moon!
#27re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:06pm
Elephant
Gerry
His new film, Last Days, is also very surreal. I just saw it.
#28re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:08pm
joe that reminds me of one of my favorite old jokes:
q. how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
a. fish
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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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
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#29re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:14pmPapa that joke convulsed many a college party! Did you ever do the "No soap radio" joke-- that was another "Make you laugh till beer comes out your nose" joke!
mmajer
Understudy Joined: 4/12/04
#30re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:18pmDancer in the Dark......one of the most amazing films ever made
#31re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:18pm
MEF-
How was Last Days? I didn't like Gerry, but I liked Elephant
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#32re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:20pm
OOOH! I love the Angelika. The one in Dallas is EXCELLENT for a good indie movie.
You, I Love was pretty surreal.
#34re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:20pm
i was so busy trying to get that out that i failed to say? re-making the warriors??? i could take the dukes, i could take bewitched, charlie, the sepford wives, the manchurian and the italian job, but my warriors??? that film captured a time that doesn't exist anymore. i mean gang fights with bats and chains and knives instead of tec-9's, please. dammit they should not have done this!!
one of the highlights of my time in nyc was going to a party in the city one night after seeing 12th night at lincoln center with helen hunt and paul rudd et. al. when i got off the train i realized that the guy walking ahead of me was not only in the cast but he was the pivotal character from the warriors (david patrick kelly). now here he was kinda being followed by some stranger from the subway. as i got closer to the address i was going to i realized that he was going to the same place and he was a bit unnerved by the guy following him. i got a perverse pleasure out of that before explaining that i was going to a party at his neighbor's.
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#35re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 4:22pmMEF, you hated the Angelika or You, I Love?
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#36re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 5:07pmI <3 "The Warriors", I went with my cousin Mario to see the lick when it was first released. I became a Walter Hill fan because of it. I also remember Michael Beck and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. I remember laughing at it in later years because NYC gangs weren't really like that.
wink
Featured Actor Joined: 11/3/04
#37re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 5:55pm
Eve's Bayou.
Dancer in The Dark depressed me for days.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#38re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 5:59pm
OK OK I am passing along some bum info here! There IS apparently some folks interested in remaking The Warriors but it's still in preliminary discussions. What they ARE doing is putting out a VIDEO GAME version of the Warriors that ties into the DVD reissue of the film this Fall. I guess you get to play a Warrior or one of the other gangs and fight fight fight. Give me a baseball bat!
Coming October 4th will be a regular DVD reissue AND a special "ultimate directors cut." No idea if that means extra violence or more weird gangs or what.
And my Warriors memory was how cool it was that they cast Lynne Thigpen as the DJ on the radio station that gives updates on what's happened to the warriors. I knew her only from Godspell and freaked out to see her in such a violent movie. Any other director would have cast a bad-assed deep voiced man in that part.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#39re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 6:03pmDon't forget PERSONA...
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#40re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 6:33pm
I wouldn't necessarily call some of these films surreal. They have unconventional narratives, yes, but many of them have a pretty regular sense of reality.
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#41re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 7:12pm
I hated Last Days.
And Eve's Bayou isn't surreal.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#42re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/2/05 at 7:27pmIt would too easy to say "anything involving Charlie Kaufman," so my winner is the Pokémon movie. Though maybe "vast nightmare" would be a better descriptor than "surreal."
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#44re: most surreal films you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:08pm
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
What Dreams May Come
Elephant Parts (Mike Nesmith)
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