Hear, hear. I'll play along, but how could anyone pin down such a thing for good?Originally Posted by Brice
For sure. "Strange" can be good, bad, or indifferent. For the sake of conversation, though, here's one of each--
House (Steve Miner, 1986)
The Dark Backward (Adam Rifkin ,1991)
Pecker (John Waters, 1998 )
Will add Inland Empire to my list of DVDs to grab next time I order.
I hope it's not like The French Lieutenant's Woman, because honestly, I hated that movie. Meryl.. please take note, just because you have an accent - that's not acting!!!
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Brice you haven't seen it yet!Now I MUST see Inland Empire. I doubt the Mullholland Drive on acid thing though. Trust someone who knows.
All this talk is really making me want to rewatch it now. If netflix still has it up online I just might do that this weekend.
And Woofer, I don't recall it being anything like The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
You know what? David Lynch sure has a lot of films on this thread. Wonder why that might be?
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I know I'm still trying to think of a third, and I was hesitant to put another Lynch film on my list. But no one really does come close to him on the strange factor.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
The first one that comes to mind, and that is the version of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" that had Val Kilmer in it. Imagine flipping through the channels and you hit one with a realistic human-kangaroo thing in the throes of labor. Also, can't forget about that little burned/skinless dwarf-thing. That is truly something to give ya nightmares.
Next up would have to be The Dark Crystal; when I was a kid that movie was like unleaded nightmare fuel. Now I really love it though. Finally, John Carpenter's version of The Thing makes my list, just because of all the crazy stuff--the dog thing, the belly that om-nom'd the guy's hand and the head that sprouted the spider legs. Likewise, I really enjoy this one now as well.
Yeah, the movie is fucked up in WHATEVA version you watch!
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Cronenberg?
Tim Burton?
The Coens?
Gilliam?
Alex Cox?
Oh, I agree. Cronenberg definitely has some bizarre films, as do some of the others, but I just think Lynch's films are on a whole other strangeness levelCronenberg?
Tim Burton?
The Coens?
Gilliam?
Alex Cox?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I have a Cronenberg film on my list (Naked Lunch). While his films are most certainly strange, they follow , albeit very loosely, a structured plot. Lynch's films are just all over the place. Such is the case when you tinker with , amongst other things, the notion of time folding in on itself , a la Inland Empire.
You know when/if they get around to making The Dark Tower movie, I imagine a really good director will pay tons of homage to westerns.
El Topo is one movie I hope the DT movie references. Pretty much cuz it's one of those westerns that's not quite a western or fits in the same lines as one.
Here's an example of what Brice and I mean:
The hermaphoditism is a shape-shifting kind of thing where she can wield a ginormous, teethed penis that can eat its way through its rape victim or transmogrify that into a giant, discharge-oozing monstrosity of a vagina that can drown a man with its fluids.Bijo no harawata (aka Entrails of a Beautiful Woman) (1986)
This is a story about a pretty psychologist (Megumi Ozawa) who is raped, murdered, and dismembered while trying to avenge the suicide of a patient who was raped by a Yakuza gangster. Buried along with the remains of a rival gangster, Ozawa somehow melds with his corpse and comes back from the grave as a hermaphrodite zombie. A bloody and sadistic revenge is ahead.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
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Awesome, I MUST see this now.
Update: I've got Inland Empire so I can see how it compares to Mullholland Drive on acid.Unfortunately I can't watch it on acid.
Brice, don't forget to watch it's predecessor Entrails of a Virgin.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
Hahaha!
I see the 2 that came to mind for me have both named already!
The Dark Backward and Naked Lunch were my first two that I thought of.
Also eXistenZ with Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh is a weird one.
Eraserhead is uncomfortably strange...I didn't like this one at all either. shrug
Videodrome with "Blondie" was a strange one.
A Clockwork Orange for Kubrick was a classic
Blue Velvet for David Lynch (and pretty much every other one too by him!)
Brazil was a classic too.
Those are the ones that come to mind.....
Malice....
that movie had so many red herrings....it was all over the damn place
and it had an entire sub-plot about a killer in it, which wasn't even part of the main storyline...pretty good though
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Fire Walk with me - David Lynch. who the fuck is Judy? and why is David Bowie in it?
Code Unknown - Micheal Haneke
Far North - Asif Kapadia
I watched Far North last night, it's strange but not because it is inpenetrable but because the ending comes right out of left field i think. I nearly put Cache on put I think it's just me who finds it strange I am not sure what happended in the end?
There are a few on here that I've got on my list, too. I never saw any of the Twin Peaks stuff (TV or movie) as it wasn't Mr. Woofer's bag. I've seen a lot of other Lynch of course. Just as you can't do William Blake without studying the songs of innocence and experience, you can't do weird movies without watching Lynch (and Cronenberg).
5 pts each:
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It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
ditto!
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