Weird Movies

I have seen these so that's 11 from your list. And it is really hard for me to make a choice at this point.

"La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowsky

"El Topo" ("The Mole") by Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Eraserhead" by David Lynch

"Week End" by Jean-Luc Godard

"Zardoz" by John Boorman

"Naked Lunch" by David Cronenberg

"Repulsion" by Roman Polanski

"Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" ("The Discreet Charme of the Bourgeousie") by Luis Buñuel

"Le Fantôme de la liberté" ("The Phantom of Liberty") by Luis Buñuel

"Belle de Jour" by Luis Buñuel

"L'Année dernière à Marienbad" ("Last Year in Marienbad") by Alain Resnais

Not sure that I consider anything out there as "weird", although some films are very difficult to interpret and understand. For example, I just saw Jean-Luc Godard's "Notre Musique" and it is not exactly a film in that we are expecting some story and acting. It is, in some ways, more of a "personal documentary", and in many ways it is typical Godard. Totally original and making use of film to create something that is not quite done or seen in film. "Weekend", is only strange in the way that Godard does his thing and uses his thoughts, by changing things midstream, like going backwards to redo a scene. Very Godard, and I don't find it strange or weird ... just that I know many folks can not watch these things and get much out of them, because the way they are designed is way out there. Same thing for "Godard's King Lear", which would fit as a very weird film, specially with the cast.

"Naked Lunch" was going to be an issue right from the start as the book is very difficult, and I really think that it being done in the hands of an American Director was a bad idea and choice. I find the film not really that great and the book is way better to your imagination and mine.

Bunuel ... likely my favorite director of all, his material is very intuitive, up to his changing the script over night (and not telling the actors!), and then filming it with sight unseen dialogue which did wonders for a lot of his films, and only Catherine Deneuve has ever mentioned that I am aware of and discusses it in her book, when they did "Belle de Jour". "Discreet Charm" is a riot ... but you really have to feel like this film is inside the minds of everyone, not ours, thus, the ending is senseless for all of us, since we can not make right or left off anything else. But it is a wonderful thing, with great moments. "The Fantom of Liberty" is one of my favorite films, in that it really speaks to what art was at one time and then lecame nothing after Picasso with his "Guernica" when all art work became just lines and colors and lost its "story". 

Jodorowsky ... makes more sense when you see the special about him, and his work and him explaining some of the moments in his films and how it came about. A lot of it came out of his experimental theater in Mexico that apparently was shut down (eventually) because the members of the cast were openly having sex and what not on stage during the shows as a part of the play. But you can see is allowing the experimental side work itself in the films, as they tend to extend a scene a bit more than otherwise, specially when in most films these are done with a few lines of dialogue instead, which makes it easier for you and I to understand, but it takes away the visualness and the flow of the work, otherwise.

Resnais ... I'm still not sure how to talk about that film. I likely have to see it again, since I saw that way back when and it was likely way over my head.

Polanski ... not one of my favorite directors, but his camera use is almost second to none, and it is so vivid and scary so many times, as to make his films stronger. But, I really am not sure that his films are as weird as we think ... and perhaps they are bits and pieces of his memories each and every time, and sometimes he transposes it to a woman as is the case in this film mentioned.

Nice listing, btw ... I like it.

"My 20th Century" is a film that would qualify as strange and weird, but mostly it was different. 

"Delicatessen" and "The City of Lost Children" qualify as weird, although the first seems to love having alternative takes on Monty Python, and the 2nd one is far out and so true ... about the educational values and systems in many countries that take it all out of children ... 

I don't think anything gets weirder than John Waters' Pink Flamingos

I haven't seen most of your list

If i had to pick one that i have seen Eraserhead certainly is very strange

Voted Other - this ranks as one of the oddest movies I've ever seen.

Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)

"Něco z Alenky" ("Something from Alice") by Jan Švankmajer is by far the creepiest adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" I have ever seen. Kristýna Kohoutová, the girl who plays Alice, is absolutely brilliant in her role.

here a link to the movie:

extremely creepy, isn't it?

It should be "De vierde man" (just like the German "vierte", but we use a "d" instead of a "t")... Great film, indeed (one of his best, imo).

For once, I've seen all the films in a list... "Weird" is maybe not a notion I would use for some of them, but I see what you mean; at least, they're all rather unconventional and that is of course what makes them interesting. All of them.

Godard's Week-end is fun in its godardian way. Jos Stelling is special (maybe I prefer De illusionist - you can see it here; no dialogues so accessible to everyone, with its decent dose of weirdness!). Luis Buñuel, of course - maybe I prefer the subversive weirdness of Le Fantôme de la liberté... I very much like David Lynch's work but these two are not my favourite ones. Švankmajer's film is a jewel!

But for me, a film that is very high on my all time classics list is L'année dernière à Marienbad. I'm a fan in general of most of the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet (his novels and his films - he wrote the script for Marienbad) and this film is visually stunning (Sacha Vierny!) and of course the story, well, it's not just messed up, it is completely gone awry, impossible to reconstruct some kind of chronology, etc. An exceptional film, in my book.