Posts Tagged ‘surrealism’

Fantastic Planet, The (1973)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Drake, Jennifer | Baugin, Eric | Topart, Jean | Valmont, Jean | Lenoir, Sylvie | Chahan, Michèle | Barsacq, Yves | de Lapparent, Hubert | Hernandez, Gérard | Joseph, Claude | Ogouz, Philippe | Ruisseau, Jacques | Bostwick, Barry | Gruner, Mark | Miller, Marvin
Directors: Laloux, René
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Tideland (2005)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Ferland, Jodelle | McTeer, Janet | Fletcher, Brendan | Tilly, Jennifer | Bridges, Jeff | Taylor, Dylan | Anderson, Wendy | Crooks, Sally | Adair, Alden | Gilliam, Harry | Wolkowski, Kent
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.

Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Gambon, Michael | Mirren, Helen | Howard, Alan | Roth, Tim | Hinds, Ciarán | Olsen, Gary | Stewart, Ewan | Ashton-Griffiths, Roger | Cook, Ron | Smith, Liz | Gillespie, Emer | Henfrey, Janet | Breeveld, Arnie | Alleff, Tony
Directors: Greenaway, Peter
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Fountain, The (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | Weisz, Rachel | Burstyn, Ellen | Margolis, Mark | McHattie, Stephen | Hernandez, Fernando | Curtis, Cliff | Thomas, Sean Patrick | Murphy, Donna | Suplee, Ethan | McMillan, Richard | Brass, Lorne | Aronofsky, Abraham | Asofsky, Renee | Majumdar, Anish
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Harring, Laura | Miller, Ann | Hedaya, Dan | Theroux, Justin | Briscoe, Brent | Forster, Robert | Towne, Katharine | Grant, Lee | Coffey, Scott | Cyrus, Billy Ray | Everett, Chad | Taggart, Rita | Karen, James | Heuring, Lori | Pellegrino, Mark
Directors: Lynch, David
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Del Toro, Benicio | Maguire, Tobey | Barkin, Ellen | Busey, Gary | Ricci, Christina | Harmon, Mark | Diaz, Cameron | Helmond, Katherine | Jeter, Michael | Jillette, Penn | Bierko, Craig | Lovett, Lyle | Flea | Newman, Laraine
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the “American dream”… they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Malone, Jena | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Osborne, Holmes | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Chase, Daveigh | McDonnell, Mary | Duval, James | Taxier, Arthur | Swayze, Patrick | Hoffman, Mark | St. James, David | Tangen, Tom | Mahannah, Jazzie | Purdy, Jolene | Stone, Stuart | Lundy, Gary
Directors: Kelly, Richard
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Burstyn, Ellen | Leto, Jared | Connelly, Jennifer | Wayans, Marlon | McDonald, Christopher | Lasser, Louise | Kurtz, Marcia Jean | Sarno, Janet | Shepherd, Suzanne | Gordon, Joanne | Aronofsky, Charlotte | Margolis, Mark | Kaycheck, Michael | O'Connell, Jack | Mastin, Chas
Directors: Aronofsky, Darren
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Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sizemore, Tom | Jones, Tommy Lee | Harrelson, Woody | Lewis, Juliette | Quinton, Everett | Dangerfield, Rodney | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | McClurg, Edie | Means, Russell | Jones, O-Lan | Flaherty, Lanny | Lineback, Richard | Downey Jr., Robert | White, Ed | Baltz, Kirk | Terrylene | Pitillo, Maria
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.

Wild at Heart (1990)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Dern, Laura | Dafoe, Willem | Freeman, J. E. | Glover, Crispin | Ladd, Diane | Lockhart, Calvin | Rossellini, Isabella | Stanton, Harry Dean | Zabriskie, Grace | Fenn, Sherilyn | Kaplan, Marvin | Sheppard, William Morgan | Kelly, David Patrick | Jones, Freddie
Directors: Lynch, David
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Lula’s psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor’s probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together… until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.