Surreal Movie Directors

From what I've seen Bunuel is the most consistent.

David Lynch, because he's the loony psycho who directed eraserhead, blue velvet, lost highway and my favorite and unfairly trashed Dune.

I watched Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal yesterday. Wow, are any of his other films as spectacularly good? If the other movies he directed are similar even in the slightest to this one, he has a rightful place among the directors listed in the poll.

Jeunet is brilliant, I think. I love City of Lost Children, Delicatessen and Amelie. I don't know that I'd call him a surrealist, but he certainly delves into surrealism, and worth mentioning for those looking to discover more surrealist film works. Well worth checking out, I think, but I'm a fan of his....

A favourite scene of mine from City of Lost Children:



I showed my kids this at Christmas when they were small. I guess I'm kind of a bad dad.

Edited by Logan - May 02 2017 at 13:07

^Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Amelie

Does Jean-Pierre Jeunet count? He is a little more dystopian-retro-future-fantasy and tends to be more linear in approach than the above. But the textures created with Caro's designs are pretty surreal.

BaldFriede wrote: Logan wrote: I don't think I could choose either, but at his moment I might go for Jodorowsky or Fellini. I'd add Jean Cocteau and Jan Švankmajer. And for ones with a surrealistic edge, Cronenberg and many others. How about adding Alain Resnais?

For some of his films, sure, such as Last Year at Marienbad, I'd say. And I guess lots of his short films. He was certianly very interested in surrealism.

Anyway, there are a tonne of filmmakers who have explored surrealism to some extent including favourites of mine such as Jeunet et Caro, von Trier, Gilliam and Peter Greenway, though that is not to say that they specialized in surrealism.

Several of my favourite films of the last decade have surrealistic qualities: High-Rise, Under the Skin, the Lobster and The Bothersome Man. EDIT: And Pan's Laybrinth.

As for the poll choices, I wasn't sure who to go for, but David has swayed me to vote for Jodorowsky (was leaning that way anyway). I watched Holy Mountain not that that long ago and mentioned it one of my polls under fantasy as a surreal fantasy film.

Edited by Logan - May 02 2017 at 10:13

Master of surrealisme is Clive Barker auther and creator of Hellraiser and Abarat, hes in the level of Gaiman, Pratchett and Adams in surrelist fantasy fiction

Edited by Icarium - May 02 2017 at 05:16

Logan wrote: I don't think I could choose either, but at his moment I might go for Jodorowsky or Fellini. I'd add Jean Cocteau and Jan Švankmajer. And for ones with a surrealistic edge, Cronenberg and many others.

How about adding Alain Resnais?

Jesus, that's a hell of a lineup. I'm abstaining as well...