Very Strange Flix?? (1 Viewer)

[DanielM]

looking for some...along the lines of: Eraserhead,Begotten
Un Chein Andolou,Liquid Sky, and to a lesser degree "Naked Lunch and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" "Brazil" may qualify..What are some other way off the beaten path non mainstream flix??

 

[Rich Malloy]

Go here for many excellent reviews of films that just might fit the bill: http://www.mondo-digital.com/

I'd recommend:
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
Whity (Fassbinder)
Careful (Madden)
Visitor Q (Miike)
Little Otik (Svankmajer)
Female Trouble (Waters)
Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky)--I prefer all his other films (particularly "El Topo" and "Sante Sangre"), but these are not currently available on acceptable R1 DVDs. Until rectified, these are worth tracking down on VHS, at least for rental.

And with any luck, "L'Age d'or" (Bunuel) will be coming out soon!

 

[Zen Butler]

City of Lost Children

 

[DanielM]

I forgot the J.Waters stuff seen all of it....
also cant believe I forgot Jodorowsky "Sante Sangre" is a great one have not seen anything else by him
this looks like a good un
THANX

 

[MartinTeller]

Some of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet (not all are available on DVD)...

Vertov:
The Man With the Movie Camera

Brakhage (all available on Criterion's by Brakhage):
Dog Star Man
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes
Window Water Baby Moving

Kusturica:
Underground
Time of the Gypsies

Haynes:
Safe

Hooper:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Linklater:
Waking Life
Slacker

Hardy:
The Wicker Man

Franju:
Eyes Without a Face

Ming Liang-tsai:
The Hole
The River
What Time Is It There?
Vive L'Amour

Cocteau:
La Belle et la Bete
Orpheus
Blood of a Poet

Greenaway:
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
A Zed and Two Noughts
Belly of an Architect
Drowning by Numbers

Von Trier:
Dancer in the Dark

Laloux:
Fantastic Planet


Noe:
I Stand Alone
Irreversible

Bunuel:
El

Lynch:
Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Dr

Herzog:
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Nosferatu
Cobra Verde
Fitzcarraldo
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

McNaughton:
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

Wenders:
Wings of Desire

Kobayashi:
Kwaidan

Ichikawa:
Fires on the Plain
An Actor's Revenge

Suzuki:
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter

Weir:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave

Lang:
Metropolis

Schrader:
Mishima

Anh Hung Tran:
Cyclo
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
The Scent of Green Papaya

 

[Rich Malloy]

Hell yeah! Actually, I'm not entirely sure if it fits Daniel's bill real well (not much like "Un Chien Andalou", for example), but this is one of my favorite, sorta-overlooked Bunuel films. I think it's fair to say it might have been one of Hitchcock's favorites, too.

 

[John Watson]

Boxing Helena

Eating Raoul

Harold and Maude

Maitresse (coming to DVD I believe)

Freaks

Man facing South East

Try Ken Russel films too; I remember one about the neo-romantics set, then there's Whore

Many not on DVD tho

 

[MarkMel]

The Butcher Boy

 

[soop.spoon]

Martin Teller's suggestions are excellent.

I would also recommend anything by Alejandro Jodorowsky... specifically Fando y Lis... Not only for the feature, but also for the intriguing documentary on Jodorowsky's life.

Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth are also quite odd.

 

[Rich Malloy]

I agree, except that I actually find "La Constellation Jodorowsky" to be the very best part of that disc. There's some wonderful imagery in "Fando" (not all of which was stolen from Bunuel!), but I don't think it's as good a film as (most) of his others. El Topo, Holy Mountain, and Sante Sangre, in particular.

Of Martin's Greenaway recommendations, I think "A Zed and Two Noughts (ZOO)" is probably closest to the sorta film Daniel's looking for. Of course, the perfect selection might be "The Baby of Macon", but no DVD for that one as yet...

And though I recommended Guy Madden's "Careful" (which is my favorite of his feature length films), I wonder if "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" might be closer to what Daniel's interested in?

 

[Arnie G]

Synapse released a great version of Blue Sunshine

From the back cover: At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of te brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre killings continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before. Soon, if Jerry can't stop it, the horror will become uncontrollable...the horror caused by Blue Sunshine!

 

[ChrisBEA]

Butcher Boy is fantastic! I wish it would hit DVD.

How about a new strange fave:
Six String Samurai

or:
City of Lost Souls

 

[Dan Lindley]

After Hours
Brother from Another Planet

 

[JasenP]

Richard Elfman's (yes it's his brother) Forbidden Zone finally hits DVD in February. Also look for Weasels Ripped My Flesh around the same time.

If you want truly bizarre, check out Katakuri-ke no kôfuku AKA: The Happiness of the Katakuris , it's an undescribable gem I recently discovered on IFC.

 

[Rich Malloy]

A fine, fine film, but actually quite tame by Miike's standards!

I recommended "Visitor Q" above, probably the most bizarro of all Miike's films. Don't watch it with granny.

(I think "Audition" is Miike's best film, and would probably be strange enough to make this list... but "Visitor Q" is just about as strange, offensive, scatologic, and perverse as they come. And oddly moving, when it's all said and done. Does it promote "family values"? Well, sorta.)

 

[Rob Gardiner]

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION William Peter Blatty
SCHIZOPOLIS Steven Soderberg
WILD AT HEART David Lynch
I'd love to see WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK? by our friend Fassbinder make it to DVD

 

[Mark Fontana]

Matador (Pedro Almodóvar)
Kika (Pedro Almodóvar)
Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

Any David Lynch film.
Donnie Darko
Fight Club

 

[Estevan Lapena]

Tetsuo
Akira
Wild at Heart
and for a laugh, a lot of the "Something Weird" horror films. IE: Blood Freak, Blood Feast ect...

 

[Jon Sheedy]

The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley)