| Re: Best surrealistic directors / movies? |
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| Parry (parry@perfectOMITmail.com) |
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Subject: Re: Best surrealistic directors / movies?
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:09:09 -0500
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Andreas Moss wrote:
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> Thanks for a GREAT answer Parry.
> Well, surrealism or surrealistic.. I don't really care. To me its just a
> keyword to finding movies I seem to enjoy. (Even though I would argue on
> early Lynch not being surrealism.., but thats not important..)
>
> May I add some questions?
>
> 1. Why is Jean Cocteau a joke? I haven't seen anything with him, but I heard
> he's done some good movies? Could you elaborate?
> 2. Jacques Brunius.. all I could find on him(allmovie.com) was that he's an
> movies by himself as well?
(http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0116306/). I believe most of his work was
interesting.
> 3. How do you connect the movie Salo with the directors I listed? I know of
> its reputation, and in some ways I do want to see it, but isn't that just a
> gruesome gruesome movie with meaningless graphic violence and torture thats
> been banned everywhere for ages(and even killed the director eventually)?
> How is he connected with surrealism? Or with Lynch? Fellini?
the surrealist pantheon. The story concerns a group of the powerful who
can act out their most horrific desires with impunity.
> 4. Dario Areganto I could ask the same.. In what way are they similar to the
> movies I mentioned? Do you mention them because you like both, or is it
> something else as well?
The similarities are the explosiveness of his images and non-utilitarian
service the narrative, the familiar American approach). To repeat an
depending on whether his dreams, nightmares, even his illusions are
> 5. I am just as confused with Tex Avery and Fleichers?
surrealist moments as the animated cartoon. And no animationist has been
and the old Betty Boops -- is wildly imaginative, with the animate and
inanimate in constant metamorphosis.
> 6. And last but not least.. Top Gun???
confused more than amused its audience.
> But thanks, a lot of the movies seemed really interesting.
> These titles especially:
>
> The Tenant
> Paris Does Not Exist
> The Monk
> The Imitation Of The Cinema
> Fata Morgana
> Celine & Julie Go Boating
> Peter Ibbetson
> Suspuria
> Les Yeux sans visage
> Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
> Perhaps Salo
>
> So, thanks a whole bunch :)
No problem. Drop a line here if you discover anything else of interest.
-- Parry
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