hi! Reading all the list, I realized that there are great movies that are pretty bizarre. I have seen some of them and I´m downloading others.
I think you forgot to mention some films such as:
Magnolia
Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
They are not weird or odd, but they have some scenes that are.
Anyway, I consider Peter Greenaway the strangest kind of director on this genre...he is very crazy man...I suggest watching The cook,the thief,his wife and her lover, seriously it is his masterpiece.
According to Vainilla sky, I didn´t like it at all,it was awful.It was hard to understand it didn´t make any sense.
I loved the clockwork orange, it was flmed so long ago, but its plot is so gripping and up-to date...I don´t know if its bizarre,perhaps the part when he is going through the Ludovico test.
I loved the idea of this open space to talk about this foreign style of movies.
Bye
Maria*+*
as regards to literature, there are no better bizarre writters than Franz Kafka (metamorfosis is very odd) and Julio Cortazar.
And, on art I think Escher is rather strange,he is kind of obsessive and freak with his pieces of work.
well, it´s just that...if you like bizarre things you can visit my fotolog,which is QueMundoBizarro.
There are some funny and bizarre snaps, perhaps you won´t understand what´s written there, because it´s in spanish, but the pics are cool
see you =)
Maria*+*
A Really moody and intense film from the usually intense director. So over the top and intense that it is often classed (and sold) as a horror film, but isn't really. (It has a kind of supernatural sybolism there to express "Something" - but there is no terror or suspense intended.) Isabelle Adjani's performance is incredible. So good that you forget that there is no specific plot or anything in the film. It is really a heart wrenching account of a disintegrating marriage, fueling the characters into obsessive and maniacally cruel and selfish acts. Neither of them able to stand the sight of each other, nor be apart.
The film works precisely because it is over the top with hateful passion, and the strangeness underlying it all is the perfect implication of madness.
So if you have just had a REALLY bad relationship, have taken to wearing a long black coat and plan on drinking for the next 2 years, I recommend watching this. It will clear your sinuses.
Just been reading through all this - fantastic! I added a lot of interesting items to my amazon shopping basket thanks to this post! Heh. However - i dont think anyone has mentioned Sweet Movie, by Dusan Makavejev - a totally outrageous and very weird and anarchic Yugoslav film.
Another is the director Shozin Fukui, who did Rubber's Lover and 964 Pinocchio. Totally totally madcap hallucinatory and very underground films.
Both of those out-weird everything else that i have ever seen and leave such familiars as David Lynch et all totally in the dust, good though they are.
Finally, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is an amazing bit of surreal cinema by the Quay Brothers. Beautiful and very strange.
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marc
Mar 01, 2009 at 1:49 pm
EX-DRUMMER ....i got nothing else to say
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Ryan
Mar 08, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I dont know if anybody has said this yet, but Begotten is one of the most fucked up videos I have ever seen. The entire movie is watchable on google video. It starts out with god cutting open his stomach with a straight razor. Just the extremely grainy black and white way the film was made made it even creepier.
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PizzaBob
May 13, 2009 at 2:55 pm
^^Yes Begotten is indeed one weird fucking film.
I'd like to put forward a recommendation of my own. It is another miike film.
"Gozu" - Strange, funny, bizarre, outlandish, provocative, eccentric, wonderful...TAKASHI MIIKE!!
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276 - Bix Dugan
OK, in the spirit of the ORIGINAL INTENT of this thread....
The top 10 Weird movies in his current personal DVD collection....
I dont have 10 strong ones, but I offer these wierd movies in my collection...
ZARDOZ !!!!
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Tin Drum
Un Chien Andalou
Bad Taste
Man Who Fell To Earth
Spider Baby
Cemetary Man
277 - Chris Beaumont
Bad Taste is a good one! I remember the Man who fell to earth many years ago, looking forward to the upcoming Criterion release.
Cemetary Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) is one of the best zombie films ever made!
278 - Nick Jones
I have checked to see if these have been mentioned above, and I post them for your consideration:
Dead Alive - Peter Jackson
Lizstomania - Ken Russell
279 - Tan The Man
Tin Drum is pretty weird.
280 - Joshua Klein
I saw a real weird film at the Chicago Indiefest. It's called Girl in 3D and is one of the sickest yet fun films I've seen this year.
281 - Antti
two more for the list / / /
Bad Boy Bubby, 1993
Leningrad Cowboys Go America, 1989
282 - Maria*+*
hi! Reading all the list, I realized that there are great movies that are pretty bizarre. I have seen some of them and I´m downloading others.
I think you forgot to mention some films such as:
Magnolia
Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
They are not weird or odd, but they have some scenes that are.
Anyway, I consider Peter Greenaway the strangest kind of director on this genre...he is very crazy man...I suggest watching The cook,the thief,his wife and her lover, seriously it is his masterpiece.
According to Vainilla sky, I didn´t like it at all,it was awful.It was hard to understand it didn´t make any sense.
I loved the clockwork orange, it was flmed so long ago, but its plot is so gripping and up-to date...I don´t know if its bizarre,perhaps the part when he is going through the Ludovico test.
I loved the idea of this open space to talk about this foreign style of movies.
Bye
Maria*+*
283 - Maria*+*
as regards to literature, there are no better bizarre writters than Franz Kafka (metamorfosis is very odd) and Julio Cortazar.
And, on art I think Escher is rather strange,he is kind of obsessive and freak with his pieces of work.
well, it´s just that...if you like bizarre things you can visit my fotolog,which is QueMundoBizarro.
There are some funny and bizarre snaps, perhaps you won´t understand what´s written there, because it´s in spanish, but the pics are cool
see you =)
Maria*+*
284 - Christopher Rose
Las peliculas de Pedro Almodovar son las mas extrañas.
285 - Matt Largo
I agree with this post for the most part, but "bizarre" is totally subjective. I thought "Showgirls" starring Elizabeth Berkley was bizarre.
286 - Nick H
Possession (1981) Dir: Andrej Zulawski
A Really moody and intense film from the usually intense director. So over the top and intense that it is often classed (and sold) as a horror film, but isn't really. (It has a kind of supernatural sybolism there to express "Something" - but there is no terror or suspense intended.) Isabelle Adjani's performance is incredible. So good that you forget that there is no specific plot or anything in the film. It is really a heart wrenching account of a disintegrating marriage, fueling the characters into obsessive and maniacally cruel and selfish acts. Neither of them able to stand the sight of each other, nor be apart.
The film works precisely because it is over the top with hateful passion, and the strangeness underlying it all is the perfect implication of madness.
So if you have just had a REALLY bad relationship, have taken to wearing a long black coat and plan on drinking for the next 2 years, I recommend watching this. It will clear your sinuses.
287 - David Rix
Just been reading through all this - fantastic! I added a lot of interesting items to my amazon shopping basket thanks to this post! Heh. However - i dont think anyone has mentioned Sweet Movie, by Dusan Makavejev - a totally outrageous and very weird and anarchic Yugoslav film.
Another is the director Shozin Fukui, who did Rubber's Lover and 964 Pinocchio. Totally totally madcap hallucinatory and very underground films.
Both of those out-weird everything else that i have ever seen and leave such familiars as David Lynch et all totally in the dust, good though they are.
Finally, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is an amazing bit of surreal cinema by the Quay Brothers. Beautiful and very strange.
288 - marc
EX-DRUMMER ....i got nothing else to say
289 - Ryan
I dont know if anybody has said this yet, but Begotten is one of the most fucked up videos I have ever seen. The entire movie is watchable on google video. It starts out with god cutting open his stomach with a straight razor. Just the extremely grainy black and white way the film was made made it even creepier.
290 - PizzaBob
^^Yes Begotten is indeed one weird fucking film.
I'd like to put forward a recommendation of my own. It is another miike film.
"Gozu" - Strange, funny, bizarre, outlandish, provocative, eccentric, wonderful...TAKASHI MIIKE!!