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| Blue Velvet (1986)
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| "Mommy!" My first real "out there" film, still holds the power to shock. |
| Memento (2000)
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| Backwards storytelling. |
| Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary Edition) (1992)
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| Back-and-forth storytelling |
| The City of Lost Children (1995)
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| Dreamlike storytelling, complete with a fairytale recitation (within the fairytale). |
| Time Bandits (Criterion Collection) (1981)
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| Pure fantasy. |
| Lost Highway (1997)
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| It's a dream, and a story told backwards ... or something. |
| Altered States (1980)
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| Drugs, dreams and sensory deprivation. A love story. |
| Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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| More drugs, less love. Harrowing. |
| Jacob's Ladder (1990)
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| Paranoid dream, deathbed flashback, or purgatorial redemption? You decide. |
| Un Chien Andalou (1928)
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| Surreal. Viscerally-unpleasant, but an undeniable proof of the power of images. |
| Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
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| Eight dreams. |
| Liquid Sky (1982)
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| So... you can get money to back films like this one? There *are* no films like this one! |
| Begotten (1991)
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| Still screwing up the courage to watch this one. |
| Eraserhead (1977)
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| The man in the planet? First time I noticed events at the beginning mirrored at the end. |
| Gummo (1997)
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| Never going there again. |
| The Qatsi Trilogy (Criterion) (Disc 1 of 3): Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance (1982)
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| I'll go here again and again. |
| Flesh Gordon (Collector's Edition) (1972)
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| Ray Harryhausen, eat your heart out! |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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| Yes, but what the hell is that watermelon for?!? |
| Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
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| "Okay, I get the picture: White Tigers, Lords of Death, guys in funny suits throwing plastic explosives while poison arrows fall from the sky and the pillars of heaven shake, huh?" |
| Natural Born Killers (1994)
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| pick a style, any style |
| Meet the Feebles (1989)
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| this is a stand-in for "Meet the Hollowheads," which is more gross and less humorous than Peter Jackson's Muppets-from-hell tale. |
| Magnolia (1999)
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| buncha stories come together on Magnolia Ave. random singing and a rain of frogs. |
| Open Your Eyes (1997)
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| Vanilla Sky. (Watch this one first.) |
| Brazil (Criterion Collection) (1985)
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| "I wonder which of these seven endings I should use for my movie. Hey, I've got an idea..." The Citizen Kane of surrealist fantasies. |
| Citizen Kane (1941)
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| Speaking of which... The breakfast scene is brilliant: one meal spanning ten years of a relationship. The master never exceeded his brilliance here. |
| F For Fake (Criterion Collection) (1973)
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| Not to say that he didn't remain the master 'til the very end! |
| Floundering (1994)
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| You've heard of fake endings? This one has a couple of fake middles. |
| Spider (2002)
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| Meshes past and present. Hallucinatory. |
| Videodrome (Criterion Collection) (1982)
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| "Long live the new flesh!" Cronenberg's most harrowing, hallucinatory work. You've been warned. |
| Man Bites Dog (Criterion Collection) (1991)
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| Fuck Jerry Springer AND Survivor. THIS is the last word on reality television.... |
| Visitor Q (2001)
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Not Rated
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| ...er, maybe not. Ick. |
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