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RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 10:29AM - in reply to Wolfgang Grajonca Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Mrs. M
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 11:56AM - in reply to Wendell Gee Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I couldn't stand Brown Bunny - ended up fast forwarding through much of it.

I have seen many of these "weird" movies. Little Otik remains one of my favorites to this day. I have seen others by the same director that were not as successful (Fuast comes to mind).

I'd put the handful of Ken Russell movies I've seen right up there with the weirdest. My husband refuses to watch them with me anymore.

While Erasurehead is a classic, I couldn't stand it.

I'd also generally include Dario Argento movies, though I've only seen a couple.
Precious Roy
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 12:04PM - in reply to redux Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Drawing Restraint No. 9. Film by Bjork's husband, Matthew Barney. Total surrealism with a climatic scene where Bjork and Matthew Barney tear their legs off in a holding tank on a whaling ship to reveal whale fins underneath their skin.

Russian Ark: Filmed in a winter palace in Russia in one take (90 min and hundreds of castmembers). The film basically walks you from one room to another in the palace and concludes with a dance in a giant ballroom with a full orchestra.

Happiness: Todd Solondz's brutal look at the horrible lives of people who do awful things to find happiness.
Mrs. M
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 12:16PM - in reply to Precious Roy Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Here are a few in my Netflix queue - if anyone's seen them and want to weigh in.....

Salo

Cannibal Holocaust

and by the same director as Little Otik and Faust:
Alice
Lunacy
I <3 Tacos
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 1:59PM - in reply to Mrs. M Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Ok so we got a few David lynch films on this list already but did anyone see lost highway? It's a visually stunning film but it's from the point of view of a schizophrenic killer who may or may not be dreaming. There is no point, no moral, no good guy or bad guy and no real ending, pretty much my favorite kind of movie.
Ickk
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 2:38PM - in reply to I <3 Tacos Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Weirdest movie ever...

Teeth
Class of 73
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 3:04PM - in reply to Conundrum Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
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Wossamotta
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 3:10PM - in reply to Ickk Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I saw Teeth. Ouch
Somebody mentioned Ken Russell....yeah, "The Devils" is pretty weird.
RockyRococo
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 3:20PM - in reply to Ickk Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Gotta add a few more:

Gandahar (Light Years in U.S. release). 1980's Sci-Fi animated film - I can't remember the specifics of the plot but if I remember correctly it involves some type of hero who goes back into to time to save a species or planet from a "metamorphosis"....whatever it was it was just a really good 90 minutes of storytelling. The movie was directed by the same guy who made Fantastic Planet.

Antichrist - by Lars Von Trier - released two years ago. Amazing.
ryan foreman
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 4:36PM - in reply to Conundrum Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Crash.

The movie of that title from the 90s starring James Spader. Pretty good respectable class of actors. About people developing a sexual fetish around car crashes. It totally went over my head. Of course seeing Deborah Unger naked in a sexual frenzy didn't exactly steer me away.
neanderthal dream
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 4:52PM - in reply to ryan foreman Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Troll 2
Little Jerry Seinfeld
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 5:02PM - in reply to RockyRococo Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
RockyRococo wrote:
Antichrist - by Lars Von Trier - released two years ago. Amazing.


I thought Antichrist sucked. As far as Lars Von Trier movies go, I thought Melancholia was much better, albeit more 'mainstream.'

Anybody seen the documentary Knuckle?
Off the Grid
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 5:29PM - in reply to mcgato Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
mcgato wrote:

Liquid Sky is all sorts of weird.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085852/
[quote]Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird. Written by Marty Cassady
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One of my favorite movies. It is awesome.
Conundrum
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Pauline Kael
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 9:41PM - in reply to Cultured Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Cultured wrote:

Synechode, New York

Still not sure what it is about. Super pretensious.


Really liked that one, I actually thought they were making fun of pretension itself. The characters were just creating art that nobody cares about, that nobody will ever see, they become all-consumed by their own art.

Anyway, my contributions:

Brazil (most Terry Gilliam films)
Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle (or anything by Miyozaki)
Brother From Another Planet
the only answer
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 9:52PM - in reply to Pauline Kael Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
A Serbian Film
a female POV
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 9:52PM - in reply to Pauline Kael Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
you all are pretty tame. if you want some weird, f-ed up films, see these:

tideland
bully
the last circus
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RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 10:08PM - in reply to a female POV Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I've seen a lot of these movies and didn't find them odd. Here are some that I've found intriguing:

- Timecrimes, by Nacho Vigalondo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
clever and disturbing.
- Gummo, by Harmony Korine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/
The MonBRO Doctrine
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Kung Fu Hustle
bloob
RE: Odd movies that you have seen 3/5/2012 10:12PM - in reply to The MonBRO Doctrine Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The Stupids
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