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.
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.
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Last edited by jaden101 on Oct 28th, 2009 at 05:55 PM
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)
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