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Logan 
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 Topic: Your favourite off-beat, strange filmsPosted: October 05 2020 at 13:41 |
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There are so many weird and wonderful/ unusual/ surrealistic films out there that I love, but I'll start with just four: Zardoz (director John Boorman), Videodrome (director David Cronenberg), A Zed & Two Noughts (director Peter Greenaway) and Eraserhead (director David Lynch).
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: October 05 2020 at 14:01 |
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^ Four of the weirdest films I've ever seen are David Lynch's "Eraserhead", David Cronenberg's "Videodrome", Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" and Sean Connery in "Zardoz", although I wouldn't call them favourites of mine.
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Posted: October 05 2020 at 14:09 |
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Lots of good ones out there:
Time Bandits Pan's Labyrinth The Gods Must Be Crazy 12 Monkeys A Clockwork Orange A Boy & His Dog |
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Posted: October 05 2020 at 14:12 |
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^^ 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 |
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Posted: October 05 2020 at 14:20 |
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^ I keep trying to catch Time Bandits, I want me daughter to see it but I can find it anywhere.
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Posted: October 25 2020 at 10:01 |
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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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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Free on YouTube) A Clockwork Orange Sult (Free on YouTube) A Woman Under the Influence (Free on YouTube) Buffalo '66
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Posted: October 25 2020 at 10:58 |
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A few quite modern ones that I adored and are quite strange are:
The Lobster The Bothersome Man Under the Skin 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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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! Edited by suitkees - October 25 2020 at 13:25 |
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Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:23 |
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Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:34 |
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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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Posted: October 25 2020 at 13:45 |
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^ 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 |
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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
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^ 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 |
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Posted: October 25 2020 at 14:06 |
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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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Posted: October 25 2020 at 14:11 |
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II is also a "freak of the horror cinema", and one of my favourites.
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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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Not quite a full movie (about 30 minutes) more like a short.
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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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In no particular order: Eraserhead Videodrome The 'burbs Blue Velvet Body Double Vanilla Sky ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
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