Your favourite off-beat, strange films

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   Not a favorite for sure but 'A Serbian Film' is pretty... shocking.
Apart from that, I like 'Pi' (not the one with the tiger), 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Raw' from 2016, I think.

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A Crimson Mellotron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 10 2020 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Status: Offline Points: 5690	Post Options Post Reply Quote A Crimson Mellotron Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: December 28 2020 at 13:28
	Not a favorite for sure but 'A Serbian Film' is pretty... shocking. Apart from that, I like 'Pi' (not the one with the tiger), 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Raw' from 2016, I think.

Shadowyzard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 24 2020 Location: Davutlar Status: Offline Points: 4506	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shadowyzard Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: December 28 2020 at 13:24
	I've just watched The Snow Queen (2005 - TV Movie). It might be too scary for kids, but good for teenagers I think. I love the story, and the movie's duration is short (about 56 minutes); that's why I've given it a try. Not disappointed at all, despite some ridiculous and flawed aspects of it. And it is Christmas!!! If you have teenagers at home, you can find and watch the movie on Youtube, together! And it can be counted amongst the "strange" movies. Edited by Shadowyzard - December 28 2020 at 13:37

Shadowyzard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 24 2020 Location: Davutlar Status: Offline Points: 4506	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shadowyzard Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: December 26 2020 at 09:39
	A couple of hours ago I watched Arventur (2015). A Russian movie, divided into two independent plots. Arventur is a place where a real and imaginary world exist at the same time. It was invented by the Russian writer Alexander Grin. A visually mesmerizing art movie; where there's some impressive effort and imagination exerted. The first part of the film is "Fandango", but I liked its second part "Secret of a Sea Landscape" better. (Did I ever say that I'm very much interested in the Chinese culture?) It was quite a nuisance to find it and provide proper English subtitles, though.

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	Some of mine have already be named by Logan; here a few more of mine. Alejandro Jodorowsky - El Topo (The Mole) Alejandro Jodorowsky - La montaña sagrada (The Holy Mountain) Jos Stelling - De Wisselwachter (The Pointsman) (could find no trailer for that one. The full movie is available on YouTube, but unfortunately only with annoying Russian overdubs). Fernando Arrabal - Viva la muerte Paul Verhoeven - De vierde man (The Fourth Man) Edited by BaldFriede - October 26 2020 at 05:11
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	Not quite a full movie (about 30 minutes) more like a short.

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	Antother short film. Saw this one, I think back in 1990, at the Rotterdam Film Festival. I'm not sure how to qualify it... it's about hair, maybe: Alison MacLean - Kitchen Sink:
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Shadowyzard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 24 2020 Location: Davutlar Status: Offline Points: 4506	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shadowyzard Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 14:11
	Hellbound: Hellraiser II is also a "freak of the horror cinema", and one of my favourites.

dr wu23 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20660	Post Options Post Reply Quote dr wu23 Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 14:06
	I've seen many of those..some great weird ones there...I really liked Altered States...not all that weird compared to some but a good one. Another one I liked but I like all of Lynch's films...
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Shadowyzard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 24 2020 Location: Davutlar Status: Offline Points: 4506	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shadowyzard Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:53
	^ The City of Lost Children includes the most sadistic murder I've ever seen. ---SPOILER ALERT--- Plugging your robotic eye cable into the person's socket, whom you're gonna strangle... And that person sees his own strangulation, as if he was strangling another person... At the same time, he is being strangled to death... This is literally the imagination of a twisted f**k!.. ---SPOILER ALERT--- Edited by Shadowyzard - October 25 2020 at 14:21

suitkees Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2020 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 9050	Post Options Post Reply Quote suitkees Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:50
	Welles' film made me also think of Dali and Bunuel's classic L'age d'or... But undoubtedly less known and completely off-beat, but not less intriguing is Salvador Dali's Impressions de la Haute-Mongolie / Impressions from Upper Mongolia (English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJk-DzMvVzE Edited by suitkees - October 25 2020 at 13:50
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Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37232	Post Options Post Reply Quote Logan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:45
	^ Delicatessan (and City of Lost Children) are favourites of mine (big fan of Jeunet and Caro). I have seen Alain Resnais' L'année dernière à Marienbad and must have seen Alain Robbe-Grillet work. For a modern one, High-Rise was good. Swiss Army Man was unusual. A very strange film is the Japanese Funky Forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFVC_Ktge7Y Edited by Logan - October 25 2020 at 13:52

suitkees Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2020 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 9050	Post Options Post Reply Quote suitkees Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:34
	Orson Welles' first (and originally silent) film The Hearts of Age of 1934 might fit the criteria: Edited by suitkees - October 25 2020 at 13:36
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suitkees Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2020 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 9050	Post Options Post Reply Quote suitkees Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:10
	I would suggest several films of Alain Robbe-Grillet (who was also the script-writer for Alain Resnais' L'année dernière à Marienbad). He plays with narrative structures and cinematographic conventions (sometimes in a more radical way than did Godard...). Found two films on YT: Trans-Europ-Express (with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSeyBNIOKmQ L'Homme qui ment (no subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QND3niQcKk More of the absurd kind: Delicatessen, by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Trailer: Most films of the Dutch Alex van Warmerdam are quite unusual, surreal or have some magical realism over them, but I don't think they exported well... But if you want a Czech burlesque musical western parody (for or against alcohol, that's the question...), then I warmly recommend Lemonade Joe, a Horse Opera by Oldrich Lipsky (1964). You will have a good laugh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzuTQWrjh2o Edited by suitkees - October 25 2020 at 13:25
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Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37232	Post Options Post Reply Quote Logan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 25 2020 at 10:58
	A few quite modern ones that I adored and are quite strange are: The Lobster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_NcqD-Gfs The Bothersome Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49DNGtWhTdo Under the Skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR5KHjoc-0 The first two are sort of black comedies, and the third is more horror. The Reflecting Skin and Baxter are older ones that come to mind. There are so many.

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	The little known work of the famous Soviet director Eldar Ryazanov, The Man From Nowhere, contained absurdist, surreal stuff. The dance of the protagonist directly refers to a Marx brother's movie, as far as I can see:
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	^ I keep trying to catch Time Bandits, I want me daughter to see it but I can find it anywhere.

Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37232	Post Options Post Reply Quote Logan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 05 2020 at 14:12
	^^ Especially when I was a teenager, a Clockwork and Brazil were my absolute favorited films. A couple other favourites of mine have been Delicatessen and City of Lost Children( Jeunet et Caro) and Juzo Itami’s Tampopo. And various Almodovar and Bigas Luna films. ^ love all of those. Good to see another admirer of A Boy and His Dog. And Time Bandits is one of those films I can watch again and again and again. I tried to get my kids into it unsuccessfully. Pan’s Labyrinth is one of my favourite “modern” films, and another favourite modern film that certainly fits is Under the Skin. Edited by Logan - October 05 2020 at 14:18