I would love to hear other's recommendations for other films, especially older stuff from the 60s and 70s and 80s.
Thank you!
Chac: The Rain God (1975)a unique story about a mayan village and their quest to bring back the rain.
I Got Sunshine In My Stomach
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, along with the "End of Eva." movie. It is surreal, open to interpretation, and features plenty of religious imagery.
shareHere's a few more films I forgot!
Steppenwolf (1974)Fred Haines
The Wicker Man (1973) Robin Hardy
(There is only one Wicker Man, forget about the suck ass Hollywood PG-13 remake by Neil La Puke er I mean La Bute. This masterpiece shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole! It's already perfect!!!!!!!!)
Any of the Short Films by Jan Svankmajer (Already mentioned but worth repeating)
Titus (1999) Julie Taymor
Myra Breckinridge (1970) Michael Sarne
Kandahar (2001) Mohsen Makhmalbaf
2 WOODY ALLEN CLASSICS THAT ARE ABSURD FUN
Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex , But Were Afraid to Ask.
(1972) Woody Allen
Sleeper (1973) Woody Allen
Pernicky na Dne (aka. Pearls of the Deep) (1965)
Trans (1998) Julian Goldberger
Belle et a bete, La (1946) Jean Cocteau
Funny Games (1997) Michael Haneke
Wings of Desire (1987) Wim Wenders
Heavy Traffic (1973) Ralph Bakshi
Fatty Drives the Bus (1999) Nick Napier
Salo, o le 120 Giornate di sodama (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
(I can't believe this wasn't mentioned yet, for strong stomachs only)
Porcile (1969) Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) Pier Paolo Pasolini
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock
(Has a dream sequence created by Salvador Dali)
The Devil's Backbone (2001) Guillermo Del Toro
The Toy Box (1971) Ronald Victor Garcia
Velvet Goldmine (1998) Todd Haynes
Montenegro (1981) Dusan Makavejev
Highway 61 (1991) Bruce Mcdonald
Ano Mariano (2000)
Django, Kill if you live, Shoot! (1967) Guilo Questo
The Telephone Book (1971) Nelson Lyon
Perfect Blue (1998) Satoshi Kon
(Amazing anime, what might happen if David Lynch made an animated film)
Immoral Tales (1974) Walerian Borowczyk
The Acid House (1998)
Fata Morgana (1971) Werner Herzog
Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins
What have I done to deserve this? (1984) Pedro Almodovar
All About my Mother (1999) Pedro Almodovar
Yeah i know i sound off subject but i'll make a little post about the music that give me the same feeling as the films listed above. Give it a try even if you're not into music. these albums will make your head spin in a good way.
° Shpongle - Are you Shpongled? (1999)
° Shpongle - Tales Of The Inexpressible (2001)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=SHPONGLE&sql=11:dikmikvkbb89~T0
° Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001)
° Autechre - Tri Repetae++ (1995)
° Autechre - LP5 (1998)
° Merzbow - 1930 (1998) (Merzbow is a japanese noise maker and he's to listen VERY loudly)
° Any other album by Merzbow
° Any album by the Aphex Twin
if you listen properly to this(in the dark with good earphones), i guarantee you some really messed up time!!
if you liked those albums, just tell me and i'll send you other suggestions. Thanks for Reading.
"Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" Bob Dylan
takes notes!!!
Bullshyt MR han-man!!
Has anybody mentioned Singapore Sling yet?
shareYes, That film rules! One of the wierdest film noirs I've ever seen!
shareHow about Baraka(1992) or Yume(1990)? I have heard interesting things about them.
Let me ask you a question, what is so similar about movies like Salo, Battle Royale or Requiem for a Dream compared to The Holy Mountain?
Sorry. After a while, I started running out of titles that were the most similar. So those titles are runners up to the earliest recomendations. I think Jodorowsky's influence can be seen in some of these more contemparary flicks. Also, besides "Salo" Pasolini's other films have many similarities to Jodorowsky.
share° Toto The Hero - Jaco Van Dormael - 2000
° Images - Robert Altman - 1972
° The American Astronaut - Cory McAbee - 2001
° The Cremator - Juraj Herz - 1968
° Johnnie Aquarius - Jan Jakub Kolski - 1993
° Trois vies & une seule mort - Raoul Ruiz - 1996
° Céline et Julie Vont en Bateau - Jacques Rivette - 1974
° Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki - 2002
° Garden - Derek Jarkman - 1990
° Rubin & ed - Trent Harris - 1992
° Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors - Aleksandr Rou - 1963
° L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé - Raoul Ruiz - 1978
° La Ville des Pirates - Raoul Ruiz - 1984
° Ce jour la - Raoul Ruiz - 2003
° Venus in Furs - Jesus Franco - 1969
° El Día de la bestia - Álex de la Iglesia - 1998
° The Enigma of Kaspard Hauser - Werner Herzog - 1974
° Heart of Glass - Werner Herzog - 1976 (everyone on the set was hypnotized by Herzog except the leading role and a few other)
Hey it's cool that you've mentionned Léolo Toxiepunk because i'm from Québec and it's always nice to see our not so famous film in the list of a foreign guy! (You're not from Québec are you?)
You're right from your side, I'm right from mine.
I'm not from Quebec, but I have wished I was Canadian many times. Free health care and a government that funds David Cronenberg films; that rules! I live in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. I collect lots of rare films because the video rentals in our area have nothing. If I want to find good films to rent, I have to drive a half hour. I accidentaly discovered "Leolo" on vhs. I instantly fell in love with the film. The intro had a similar feel to Jodorowsky with the Buddha like chants. Leolo's character reminded me of myself as a child. It has to be one of the most sad and haunting films I've ever seen.
shareI didn't even see it!! i've heard a lot about it and i'll go rent it right now! i'm "new" to films. I started to seriously watch movies last winter and i'm 16 years old. Because they are to much flix to watch, i didn't really had the time to watch Québecois movies. I think that this one is a good one to start ! And finally, is your copy of The Silver Globe subtitled? if so where did you found it?
i just saw that. i don't where you live in pensylvania but here's a screnning of a really weird film !!! you got to see that on big screen!
October 27th , 7:00 PM
Screening of BIPEDALISM (Pryamokhozhdenie)by
Yevgeny Yufit, Russia, 2005, 90 minutes, black & white
followed by Q&A with Director Yevgeny Yufit
The Bridge Cinema de Lux
Corner of 40th and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
it's free and open to the public.
You're right from your side, I'm right from mine.
Right now www.superhappyfun.com is working on a subtitled copy of "The Silver Globe". I have a good copy I got with German subtitles from www.pimpadelicwonderland.com ; so I had to guess what was going on. I live about 2 hours from Philly, I'll have to look into that film. Thanks!
shareCassandra Cat (1963) Vojtech Jasny
The Mutilation Man (1998)
(pretty cheesy and snuff like, but has some strange images)
The Tin Drum (1979) Volker Scholondorff (a classic)
Le Nain Rouge (aka. The Red Dwarf)(1998)
(Awesome Belgium arthouse movie about a dwarf who screws Anita Eckburg, kills her, craps on his boss's desk and joins the circus)(Not sure in which order)
Photographoi,Oi (aka. The Photographers) (1998) Nikos Koundouros
Kamikaze Girls (2004)Tetsuya Nakashima
Beyond Dreams Door (1989) (Extremely cheesy, but makes up for it with amazing creativity and surreal inventiveness)
Dark Waters (1994) Mariano Baino (Creepy Ukraine horror flick with nuns!)
Visions of Suffering (2006)
House with the Laughing Windows (1976) Pupi Avati
After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
(A must see) available at www.superhappyfun.com
Strange Circus (2005) Sion Sono
the short films of James Broughton director of "the Pleasure Garden" (1953)
(avoid his films he did in the 80's; unless you like graphic hairy male nudity)
Dortheas Rache (1974) Peter Fleischmann
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974) Shuji Terayama
Any of the short films or live performances of Otto Muhl and the "Vienna Aktionists" (Be warned for strong stomachs only. They use all their bodily fluids to create surreal works of art; also contains real sex.)
Morgiana (1972) Juraj Herz
Tideland (2005) Terry Gilliam
Hey Happy (2001) (Really wierd apocalpytic gay film)
Death by Hanging (1968) Nagisa Oshima
The Fountain (2006) Aronofsky (Rhymes with "The Holy Mountain")(I loved this movie. There was a wierd scene in which flowers errupt from Hugh Jackman's stomach wound. That kinda reminded me of Jodorowsky)
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Hey, boys ! Don't you think to have exaggerated a little ?
How can you start talking about Holy mountain and continue enumerating tons of lists of the films you have seen !
I think you have losen the initial track, but, nonetheless, it has been interesting reading your favourite filmography.
In my opinion the only surrealistic film resembling to Holy mountain is Tommy (1975) by Ken Russell, even if i saw it only once, at 18 years !!! (good times gone !)
Returning to Holy mountain, we can't avoid to say that a lot of scenes do not have probably any meaning, having only the characteristic of being very odd and astonishing (what is the meaning of the animals here and there ? frogs, camels, and so on ? I don't think they have one).
By another point of view, think of the earthquake such a film would do today if it would aim to Muslims instead of Christians ... !!!
Speaking of cinematography more in general, what can you say about films like What? by Roman Polanski ? I've seen yesterday for the second time and i re-think it's simply wonderful !
Thanks for recommending "Che?"! I love Polanski; so I'll have to see it!
sharebeing a devoted Norwegian patriot I just have to point out that the book Sophie's World mentioned in this thread is in fact Norwegian, not Danish. This a great thread BTW
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Theorema by Pasolini
Not as obviously mystical and mythical as Holy Mountain, but I see a lot of similarities in structure and themes, stories of initiation, calls to authentic existence, etc.
Also, I have to say that I'm struck by how both Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the Life of Brian have remarkably similar twists at the ending (especially the Holy Grail).
Heres a shortlist cocktail
Tarkovsky’s Mirror (around the same time as Holy Mountain, more dramatic/human)
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (uncut version)
Woody Allens Stardust Memories (ode to Fallinis' 8 1/2 but better)
Crispin Glovers What is it? (Looks like it may be the next Holy Mountain {sic})
Pig (Nico B. Is going to collaborate with Alejandro Jodorowsky?)
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Robert Altman - 3 Women
David Cronenberg - Crash
The Hourglass Sanatorium sounds cool, but I can't locate it anywhere. Suggestions?
"The Hourglass Sanitorium" is available at www.superhappyfun.com
shareThe Puppet films of Jiri Trnka (Before there was Svankmajer, there was Trnka)
The Emporer's Nighingale (1967) Jiri Trnka
How to drown Dr. M (1974) Vaclav Vorlicek
(Absurd comedy about a family of water spirits. They live underwater and have magical powers. The mom gets mad at her daughter and turns her into a sausage, in one crazy scene. She changes her back to human when she almost gets eaten by the dog)
Roseland (1973) Fredric Hobbs
Dedictvi aneb Kurvahosigutntag (translated tiltle has obscenity) (1993) Vera Chytilova
Gemini (1999) Shinya Tsukamoto
The Last of England (1988) Derek Jarman
Bal-Can-Can (2005)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (I can't believe no one mentioned this. The wizard is similar to the alchemist)
Pan's Labrynth (2006)
Electric Dragon 80,000 V (2001)
The Apple (1980) (Cheesy, yet enjoyable)
Flaming Ears (1992)
Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981) Oldrich Lipsky
Time of the Gypsies (1988) Emir Kusturica
True Stories (1986) (absurd film from the 80's band Talking Heads; kinda annoying at times)
The Man who Fell to Earth (1976) Nicolas Roeg
Sileni (aka. Lunacy) (2005) (the latest from Svankmajer)
Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) (the latest from the Quay brothers)
Calvaire (2004) (Wierd horror flick from Belguim)
Cafe Flesh (1982) (Surrealist Porn)
Chatterbox (1977) (Hilarious comedy about a lady's singing vagina)
Ali Zouau: Prince of the Streets (A Morrocan City of God with magic realism)
Vidas Secas (1963) (Really depressing but beautiful. A Brazilian "Grapes of Wrath"; some of the scenery reminded me of El Topo and also the screaching push cart has a similar distorted sound like the beginning town massecre in El Topo)
Screwed (1998) Teruo Ishii
Haxan (1922)
Princess Racoon (2005) Seijun Suzuki
Desert Spirits (1994)
Operation Midnight Climax (2002)
Citizen Dog (2004)
Sins of the Fleshpoids (1965)
Onibaba (1964)
Shock Corridor(1963) Sam Fuller
Mad Cowgirl (2006)
How about the Ted Kotcheff classic "Wake in Fright" aka Outback???
shareHurrah for bringing up Sins of the Fleshpoids, George and Mike Kuchar are wonderful.....
Very surprised no one has brought up Jack Smith... Not all of his stuff but most certainly "Normal Love", which is perhaps one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Also what about Richard Kern's super 8 movies
or if you have ever had the rare pleaure Tessa Hughes Freeland, or Kembra Pfahler's super 8 movies from the 80's.
Try if you can to find documentation of painter Joe Coleman's performances they are also really incredible.