Favorite surreal films?

By "surreal" I'm not particularly snobby. What are your favorite film with surreal elements - and why?

 

Yellow Submarine. It had some fantastic colours in odd combinations. The creatures were surreal, and the actual artwork was, as well as surreal, fantastic.

 

Mine is natural born killers liked it because it's a crosslink between comics and a paperback action thriller the caracters were nicely played....

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Head

 

Fear and Loathing is up there. The Warriors is one of my favorite movies of all-time.

 

My films are my favorite...

the one dubbed "The Milk Movie" for making a Milk2Go bottle walk around my school, but before that, a bunch of random images and playing with effects to change the colour and shape of the picture...and

one called "The Making of Absolutly Nothing" which eventually became known coloquially as "The Movie That Never Happened". It was an attempt to make a Monkees type episode, but for some reason i never really tried to do that, and it is just my friends dressed in paisley vests, talking about stupid things, really bad benny hil chases, kinks music, and backwards video


this really means nothing cause none of you wil ever see them, but its awesome none the less

oh yeah, and i made one recently a minute and a half long about my making a piece of toast and putting cheese-whiz on it...THE END

 

no one mentioning a burton flick?

or lynch?

 

eraserhead

 

gummo...

the hen goes cluck cluck, and the rooster goes cock a doodle doo, doodle doo, doodle doo.

plus the rabbit kid getting "pretend" shot at, the brothers punching each other. and the mentally handicapped prostitute.

bizarre...

 

another good surreal flick is a Canadian movie called 'High' from 1968. Lots of weird effects, colours and sounds.

 

Rather than name films I would say that my favourite directors of surreal films are:

David Lynch, Tim Burton, David Cronenburg, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway and Jean Cocteau.

Did anyone ever see that very small film Scorsese made of someone shaving his face off? I think it was before he became famous, but it was gruesome.

 

True Stories


It's kind of a musical comedy. Done mostly by David Byrne, was in the Talking Heads. It's bizarre, but very interesting, and it's got a young John Goodman in it. I highly recommend seeing it if you can.

 

Anyone seen "Un Chien Andalou" or The Analouan Dog.
It was written by Salvador Dali made in France in 1927 or so.
Probbably the most surreal film ever, and maybe the first too.
Dali's goal was to have "nothing make sense, no logic between any two events"
It is only like 20 minutes, but worth the watch if you can find it.

 

i've tried watching un chien andalou a few times. my brain simply refuses to stay focused on the film.

 

I saw this at the 'Scala' in King's Cross something like 14 years ago, before it was closed down for showing 'A Clockwork Orange' (Kubric was still alive then and he wouldn't have none of it).

You've probably chosen the most surreal film in existence. 17 minutes of... who knows what. I vaguely remember it for that scene in the beginning. The director of the film, Luis Bunuel, appears on screen and slits a woman's eyeball, for no reason. Though Dali is credited in the film, many cinephiles believe that his involvement was sheerly a marketing ploy. Bunuel deserves all the credit on this one.

The film was made in 1929 and is still banned in Finland.

 

dus cabinets de dr caligari

 

i saw the dali film in an art class before, i think it is pretty much the definition of "surreal film"

has anyone seen "vincent" by burton? its a short film and included on the nightmare before christmas DVD...this is one of my favorite burton movies, its great.

i also think pee wee's big adventure qualifies

cinematic brilliance!

 

Caligari is good, but really hard to sit through.
Basically the best film to watch if you like German expressionism I think.

Anyone seen the "Flex" video by Chris Cunningham? Another really good one, surreal deffinitly, a good modern example I think.

 

anyone seen Chris Cunninghams new movie called Rubber Johnny? It looks pretty mental.

 

I've got this on DVD from a magazine. You really have to be a film buff to enjoy it, but what I liked about it most were the sets. They're very cheap and yet they're mindblowingly surreal.

Would 'Reefer Madness' fall in the surreal category?