Film Recommendations

[Mut]

bad boy bubby....very disturbing, great film. on another note meet the feebles (peter jackson) is great... best sex scene eve... between a walrus and a cat....

[Michael]

Meet the Feebles is hilarious, but IMO, just weird and not symbolic of anything that I could pick up on. Then again, muppet sex always clouds the higher learning centers of my brain.

[qiphlow]

Tetsuo the Ironman?

I don't know if any of those are close...

tetsuo is definitely in the strange category.

^^ Some of my favorite films ever. Haven't seen Twin Peaks yet.

Edit: actually, I'd say David Lynch's films are not so much surreal as eerie, twisted, and confusing, but you can still figure them out.

twin peaks is weird as fuck. i only caught the last half-hour or so, but it was enough.

[kenneth delves]

Touch of Evil Welles
M Lang
Lift to the scaffold[with the incomparable

[emre]

I like the films by Caro and Jeunet (Delicatessen and City of Lost Children were collaboration efforts by two directors, not one).

If you like surreal comedy, you should check out Spiklenci slasti, aka Conspirators of Pleasure, by Jan Švankmajer. Being an Eastern European film from the 90s, it doesn't have the visual polish and production qualities of the Jeunet and Caro films, but it's pretty cool nevertheless.

[Andy_S]

As you may know by now, I am the last bloke who ever sees a film - and last night I caught "V For Vendetta:" Compelling stuff, a superior version of

Lots going on: Facism in Britain, issues of consensual government, personal identity....I don't really agree with the political message, but it is a good film with some great thesps. Great thesps - esp John Hurt does a brilliant English Adolf, Steven Frears is the copper - much better than Rutger Hauer in "Fatherland" (A similar plot: investigators in a fascist society looking into shadowy allegations of something nasty in the past).

Also, the closest thing I have yet seen to an English MA movie: The mysterious main character does Bagua with knives at the end.

Has two of the grimmest lines in cinema history. The investigators are looking into shadowy allegations about a secret, long-destroyed interment camp, and one asks the other:

"Why would they have so many doctors in an internment camp? And why was the priest the best paid staffer?"

[Ian]

Thanks a lot, guys.

I've seen about 80% of the films listed here, but I'll check those other ones out for sure.

Cheers.

[kreese]

The Machinist

For pure fun: Deathproof

[Ian]

Oh yeah, totally forgot The Machinist! Great film and exactly the type of thing I'm talking about.

Deathproof sucked ass, though.

[Franklin]

Underground
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/

Public Access
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107895/

Angel-A
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473753/




edit
not really surreal but a good film
La Haine (Hate)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

[Josealb]

I enjoyed Deathproof ALLOT. Its just pure entertainment, nothing fancy to think about.

Im currently looking into yakuza themed movies...and trying to get my hands on Ichy The Killer. Seems to be a mix of Sin City with Tarantino.

[Jed]

Cube
Four Rooms - not really horror, but definitely surreal...
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Pacte Des Loupes) (French)
Happiness of the Katakuris - very surreal (Japanese)
Battle Royale (Japanese)
Uzumaki - live action movie based on the comic books (Japanese)
Burning Paradise (aka Rape of the Red Temple) - if Edgar Allen Poe wrote king fu movies, this would be it...

[qiphlow]

Cube

ah, yes! that, and it's sequel, were good. surprisingly good. the 3rd one sucked, however.

[cerebus]

Cube. Yeah, that was an odd one. "Brotherhood of the Wolf" was fun, as long as you don't get too hung up on the historical inaccuracies (it was "loosely" based on actual events, with which I've been familiar since I was a kid, but it takes quite a bit of "artistic license" with those events, even though the real story was even stranger and more fascinating).

[Snow]

Not exactly in the style you're looking for maybe, but Melville's "Le Samourai" with Alain Delon as a hitman really hits a mood.