Reply #91: what? no Bunuel? [View All]

Well ok I like to watch weird films, excuse me if I indulge with more than one!

Few things stranger than Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosis, or That Obscure Object of Desire...

The Maya Deren film that sticks in my mind is "Meshes of the Afternoon"...simply years ahead of its time, most haunting and unsettling

Anything by Ed Emschwiller (along the lines of Brakhage, James Broughton...)

Several Alexandro Jodoworosky films mentioned but El Topo is up there in terms of weirdness!

City of Women by Fellini is one of his later films and somewhat derivative but it's got some plenty surreal goings on in it, I smiled all the way through this one...

A Man is a Man But a Woman is a Woman...a neo-realist musical by Jean Luc Godard...

Providence by Alain Resnais...with John Gieguld, Dirk Bogarde...lots of weird flashbacks

Stroszek by Werner Herzog...Herzog's made in America film, more poignant than weird but it stars Bruno S.

Weirder low budget American fare...

Incubus...starring William Shatner, dialogue entirely in Esperanto!

Daughter of Horror (aka Dementia)...Weird 50s silent expressionistic thing narrated by Ed McMahon!

The Japanese Starman movies...(especially "Attack from Space" wher Starman helps earthlings fight off an invasion by a race of strangely Japanese looking space Nazis)

Wild Zero...2000 film starring Guitar Wolf, unfortunately this one diminishes after several viewings, but when I first saw it I thought Wow! But if you like zombie ufo punk rock movies, then you might like it! I still do...

Encounters of the Spooky Kind with Sammo Hung, the first kung fu/horror film, very entertaining!

Kekko Kamen...actually a few films about a Japanese superheroine who wears a cape and mask but nothing else, her weapon is her magic glowing....well, er, just do a search on her name if you want to find out more!

And of course just about all of the Mexican monster/horror/wrestling movies, including the films of Santo, the Wrestling Women, Ship of Monsters (a bona-fide classic!),and many of the K. Gordon Murray adaptations for US audiences (including kids, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters" is just about as weird as weird can get!)

Sorry for going on...