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Surrealism (I mean going back to the 20's)

posted 9 years ago by MisterWhiplash
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Of course there's Bunuel & Dali's Un chien Andalou, but what about Man-Ray, the Seashell & the Clergyman, Antonin Artaud? What are your top 5? I certainly put Entracte up there, and then, though it goes into the 1940's, Meshes of an Afternoon.

I did a discussion on surrealism in movies on this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/wagesofcinema/surrealism/

iTunes podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wages-of-cinema/id977881387?mt=2/

[–] SherlockVonEinstein 9 years ago

Let's not forget the Polish filmmakers of yesteryear such as Wadja and Zulwawski!

[–] dreaming (43) 8 years ago

Here's my top 5 surrealist films:
Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet
Carl Dreyer's Vampyr (which was actually made bwt 1930-1932,but it's still an excellent surrealist horror near-masterpiece worth checking out.)
Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon
and Rituals of Transfiguration (both are excellent at capturing that hazy, languid, unreal feeling one has when you're not sure whether you're awake or dreaming just before you wake up.)
Can't think of a fifth, so I'll just go with these four,lol. Forgot to mention that Barry Jenkins' Moonlight has a number of surrealist elements in it,too.