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anyone have a suggestion for surreal movies. they need not be holly(shit)wood.

Looking at the dvds i have on the shelves next to me i'll pick some out.

Mullholland Drive
Bubba Ho-tep
Ichi the killer
Freeze frame
Dreamscape
A scanner darkly
Brick
The machinist
21 grams
Amors Perros
Crash
The Sun
Disco Pigs
Morvern Callar
Cashback
Requien for a dream
Dancer in the dark
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Versus
No country for old men
Das Experiment

Begotten
The City of Lost Children
Lost Highway
Waking Life
Mirrormask
Casshern
Un Chien Andalou - one of the most famous ones
Eraserhead
Performance

Anything by the artist/film maker Matthew Barney

Weekend - Jean Luc Goddard, not one of my favourites by the man but worth a shot if you like surreal.

AntiChrist is a very recent film with surreal elements.

Naked Lunch - I struggled with this, but you might enjoy it.

Oo Werckmeister Harmonies is amazing to see.

Try anything by the film maker Andrei Tarkovsky.

Also The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, I'm currently trying to watch this... I have it out on rent and so far it's taken me two times to try and watch it, I keep nodding off... don't know if that's a good recommendation then.

Looking at my dvds:

Most David Lynch movies, Donnie Darko, The Machinist, Vanilla Sky, Eternal Sunshine, Big Fish, Waking Life, American Psycho, Brick.

Originally posted by jaden101
Looking at the dvds i have on the shelves next to me i'll pick some out.

Mullholland Drive @
Bubba Ho-tep @
Ichi the killer @
Freeze frame
Dreamscape @
A scanner darkly @
Brick @
The machinist @
21 grams @
Amors Perros @
Crash @
The Sun
Disco Pigs
Morvern Callar
Cashback
Requien for a dream @
Dancer in the dark
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas @
Versus
No country for old men @
Das Experiment @

Good list of films to own. @ = I own

What is 'The Sun'? IMDB doesn't have it.

Originally posted by Robtard


What is 'The Sun'? IMDB doesn't have it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439817/

A lot of the one's that I was thinking have been mentioned.

Motorama (I would consider this surreal)
Solaris (1972 version)
The Navigator: A MedievalOdyssey (1988) < I Highly recommend this.

Originally posted by jaden101
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439817/

I think I'll be watching that. Are the first two films in the series worth it?

Haven't seen them. I just seen one that was a dramatisation about Hirohito. It was billed as being the Japanese equivalent of "Downfall" and so that caught my eye as Bruno Gantz's depiction of Hitler was astounding. The is a completely different tone of film though. It's already the case that Japan are defeated and it's about how a recluse and sheltered emperor interacts with his subjects and the conquering American army.

Very quiet movie to say the least. Issei Ogata's portrayal of such an important yet relatively little known figure and leader from WWII is fascinating.

All I know about the other 2 is that they're about Lenin and Hitler.

I've seen Tarkovsky's the mirror, and that's what got me into "surreal" cinema.
so far i've seen:
mirror
stalker
solaris
uzumaki
tetsuo
the andalusian dog
begotten
scanner darkly (although i'd consider that more postmodernist, as opposed to surreal)
american psycho (again, wouldn't really call it surreal)

although, that is in the last 3 days

thanks for the help guys!

Brazil!

Fight Club is pretty trippy.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Begotten
The City of Lost Children
Lost Highway
Waking Life
Mirrormask
Casshern
Un Chien Andalou - one of the most famous ones
Eraserhead
Performance



Very good list my two faves are Begotten and Eraserhead.

Others I would suggest:

Singapore Sling
Vase de noces (extremely difficult to find)
Sweet Movie
Ichi The Killer

Wristcutters: A Love Story was pretty surreal.

Oo yes, nice choice.

Classic films from Luis Bunuel, like 'That Obscure Object Of Desire' and others. He was maybe the first surrealist filmmaker.