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From: elag <elag@cloud8.net>
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Subject: Re: Best surrealistic directors / movies?
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:37:19 -0500
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Parry wrote:
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> Andreas Moss wrote:
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> > Hey people.
> > I'm looking for tips on great surrealistic directors..
> >
> > Jodorowsky..
> >
> > Is there anyone else that do equal great movies?
>
> Jean Cocteau.
>
> problems with your very question. A director like Fellini may have
> affinities with surrealism, but is not a surrealist. Lynch even less so.
> A semantic distinction can be made, as Elag likes to point out, between
> mistakenly thinks surrealism is the use of a certain type of imagery.
Yes, my main argument is that popular usage has transformed the word
"surreal" into litle more than a synonym for "weird", and so rendered it
useless. I'll use "surrealistic" if a film exhibits mannered mimicking
of superficial aspects of the visual style of the original Surrealists
between the wars (commonly, cribs from Dali, Magritte, Chirico, Bunuel
or Cocteau). In all other cases I prefer more specific terms, like
"dreamlike", "Nightmarish" or "Bunuelesque". I'd reserve "surrealist"
for the output of members of recognized Surrealist groups.
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