February 2, 2010
dear clusterflock
What’s the strangest movie you’d recommend?
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I keeping wanting to say The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, but I feel like I still have something weirder in my pocket.
mine is probably something by Harmony Korine. Julian Donkey Boy, perhaps.
Uncorked, maybe.
El Topo.
yeah! Holy Mountain has gotten lots of weird reactions when I hand it out.
Altered States with William Hurt.
That’s good. I like it like that.
Something weirder in my pocket.
[...] strangest movie I’d [...]
Happiness of the Katakuris
“Incident at Loch Ness.” Werner Herzog is charming.
The wikipedia and IMDB entries don’t do it justice but the 1925 documentary Grass is a deeply strange movie. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, Haidar Khan, and Marguerite Harrison are all interesting characters.There’s a 50k member Bakhtiari cast, plenty of, um, live death, inflated goat bladders and, of course, Stalin.
Eraserhead.
Miami Blues
This is getting good.
Oh, SC, thank you–that sounds right up my alley.
Gummo
Any of Kenneth Anger’s films.
I second Miami Blues. What an odd flick.
I was and still am bafflled by M Gibson’s “Apocalypto”, I’ll never watch it again though.
The animated “Tekkon Kinkreet” is a strange weird movie that’s immensely watchable.
Oh, I forgot to mention “After Hours”.
Motorama
House
http://www.janusfilms.com/house/
always been partial to the films of Peter Greenaway, a zed & two noughts; the cook, the thief, his wife & her lover a pair of favorites…
Cindy, you are welcome.
There’s a version of Grass on google video. It has an odd introduction and it’s partly colorized. It’s just over an hour.
The colorization might not be modern. IIRC, Grass was cut, and possibly colorized, for lectures, vaudeville screenings, multiple projector screenings, etc. before and after the Paramount release. I think the surviving prints are culled from various sources. The score in the google version is iffy.
The 1925 NYT review: http://tinyurl.com/yamrzjg
It’s called Audition by Japanese director Takashi Miike, and it’s also the most disturbing movie I’ve seen. I’ve seen some pretty crazy shit because I was a movie critic before, but this one just creeps up on you.
I have the DVD and I have only watched it once.
Jesus Camp
Fantastic Planet
I watched Audition and didn’t find it as disturbing as most of the people who recommended it to me said it was. It was, however, a strange movie.
Cold Dog Soup
Woman in the Dunes
Nevermind. Errol Morris’s Vernon, FL. Reality is so much stranger than fiction
The Music of Chance.