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Art House/Surreal/Weird:
Baby Of Macon - A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
Beast, The (AKA La Bete) -
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when
the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and
her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family,
unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.
Begotten - God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like
Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and
cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals.
Bestialita - an erotic Italian film about a women who "loves" animals
in... well.. lets just say "unnatural ways". No English
Boxer's Omen - As if Jodorowsky met Coffin Joe in Hong Kong and decided to
collaborate on a supernatural martial-arts action film. Filled to the brim with
visual overload, mystical drama, Buddhist symoblism and dark supernatural
atmosphere, this film follows the life of a boxer embroiled in a vengeful feud
sparked by the brutal, nearly fatal beating of his brother in a sparring match.
Canterbury Tales, The - Pier Paolo Pasolini's (Decameron) startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust. A host of passionate lovers unite for a glorious, sometimes unexpected journey through Chaucer's medieval England.
Chelsea Girls - Andy Warhol's epic freak-out to end all freak-outs. For four odd hours Warhol, using the double-screen technique, declares war against every sensory logic we have grown used to in the movies. (2 DVDs)
Coming of Sin - Rarely seen low budget blend of exploitation and art, this film is about a woman whose tranquil existence is upturned when a girl from a gypsy clan enters her life. Then a mysterious man on horseback intrudes on their lives, creating an unholy triangle of lust that culminates in a dark reversal of fortune.
Cremaster Cycle - The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney (Who is Bjorks husband, right there should signify how fucked up these movies are), entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the cycle is the male cremaster muscle, and the films are filled with anatomical allusions to reproductive organs and the process of sexual differentiation. A surrealists wet dream, Think David Lynch meets Alejandro Jodorowsky. This collection features all 5 films from high quality DVD sources (with the exception of part 5 which is from a VHS copy, still pretty good quality though). The collection is 3 DVDs but if you want to start out with just a few of them the layout is like this: Disk 1 contains part 1 & 2, Disk 2 features the full version of part 3 (182 minute version, not the 40 minute US version), and Disk 3 features parts 4 & 5. (3 DVDs)
Death Powder - Sort of a Japanese "Eraserhead", but makes less sense. A couple of people break into a building, there's some sort of creature there, then your thrust into some mind bending alternate universe, or maybe it's the creatures mind, or maybe it just injects the humans with some drug that makes them have some intense death trip, I don't know.
Decoder - German sci-fi film about a futuristic society influenced by muzak. Featuring a cameo by William S Burroughs
Dorotheas Rache AKA Dorothea's Revenge - Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex.
Drawing Restraint 9 - The film concerns the
theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in
religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
Dumbland - David Lynch Cartoons
El Topo - The gunfighter El Topo ("The Mole") and his young son ride
through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Alejandro
Jodorowsky's most loved film
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - This cult B&W Japanese film from the 1970s analyzes the result of a colony in which children overthrow the control of their parents and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence. Pretty fucked up and twisted Asian surrealism, not for everyone. This is the full length 76 minute version as well as the black and white short (neither one is in English and neither one has subtitles).
Freak Orlando - Surrealists wet dream with Dalmatian midgets!
Funeral Procession Of Roses -
A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version
of the Oedipus legend.
Holy Mountain - Jodorowsky's film about Christlike figure who wanders
through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious
imagery.
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted - After her
boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats
through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love. Also
includes a recent college lecture by David Lynch as an extra
La Luna - Bernardo Bertolucci most sought after film, a neglective mother
takes in her heroin addict son to try and cure his sickness. In English
L'Ange - Probably the definition of a experimental film directed by underground legend Patrick Bokanowski. L'Ange is a surreal, nightmarish collection of dream imagery that is, without a doubt, unlike anything you have ever seen before. So sit back, load up on psychedelics (if you're into that sort of thing) and immerse yourself in Bokanowski's hallucinogenic fantasy. There's no plot to speak of, just images upon images that you won't soon forget
L'Eden et Apres (Eden And After) - This
surreal film concerns the bored college students who hang out at the cafe Eden.
Hoping for adventure, one girl gets more than she bargains for when she and her
date are chased by vicious gang members. She manages to escape when he is
killed, but when she returns with help, the body is gone. Soon she is off to
Tunisia to locate a stolen painting. After an erotic nude posing before a total
stranger, she is kidnapped and chained by Arabs who pump her for information.
Quality isn't great and subtitles can be hard to read at time, still worth a
look I suppose
Marquis - The scene is
a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political prisoners are being
held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the king, a police chief who was
accused of selling bad pork, and the Marquis, who was unjustly accused of
working for the overthrow of the king. The Marquis is only interested in writing
his deviant stories, while his penis yearns for a little action (they argue
about this frequently), the prime candidate being the jailer who likes to be
buggered. The corrupt priest arranges to have the pregnant woman raped by the
Marquis so they can claim the king had nothing to do with it. The priest also
steals the Marquis' manuscripts and publishes them for his own profit. Things
come to a head as the people rise up against the tyranny.
Medea - To win the
kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from
the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where
human sacrifice helps crops to grow. Medea sees Jason and swoons, then enlists
her brother's aid to take the fleece. She then murders her brother and becomes
Jason's lover. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no
power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by
Jason. When she learns he's to marry the king's daughter, Medea tames her
emotions and sends gifts via her sons; then, loss overwhelms her and she
unleashes a fire storm on the king, the bride, and Jason.
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Medusa Touch - Told in retrospect, the life of an author who believed
himself possessed by telekinetic powers and responsible for a series of
catastrophes, is probed by his psychiatrist and the investigator trying to solve
his attempted murder
Noisy Requiem - This black/white movie was 5 years in the making and
described by the director Yoshihiko Matsui as " would be a scandal if made into
a motion picture." Its focus are the daily life's of social outcasts in Kyoto,
misfits and freaks, we have a serial killer, crippled soldiers, an incestuous
couple, dwarves and homeless people, all of them struggling to get by. NR is the
most uncompromising look at alienation, a raw and violent depiction of society
and the gaps it creates. If you ever get the chance to see it, please do so,
it's one of those forgotten masterpieces
Pig Chicken Suicide - Directed by Japanese underground legend Yoshihiko
Matsui, most famous for his epic film "Noisy Requiem", and his early work with
maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii, "Pig Chicken Suicide" is a veritable
assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal butchery, racial strife
and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan, who's love is
destroyed due to overwhelming racial discrimination. This seriously bizarre and
demented film tells the story of a weird guy, who thinks that he's a chicken and
works in a slaughterhouse. He eats dirt, walks like a chicken and masturbates
whilst seeing Japanese woman touching herself. "Pig Chicken Suicide" is a gross
art-house Japanese piece of sleaze that is as dirty as they come. I enjoyed this
demented little flick and you should too, if you like surreal and off-beat
cinema.
Profumo AKA Bizarre
- A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband
haunt her literally and figuratively.
Rainbow Thief - A petty crook, in search of
the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by
befriending the heir to a huge fortune. Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Salo - Four fascist libertines round up 9
teenagers boys and girls and
subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture
Santa Sangre - A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a
flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were
circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious
fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and
then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving
and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two
undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge..
Small White House - An incredibly cool movie
that answers the question, What do Tijuana, John Wayne Gacy, and corpophelia
have to do with the assassination of JFK and Marilyn Monroe? David Lynch only
wishes he could get away with being this weird!
Subconscious Cruelty - Reality... A city, grey, dull, maybe abandoned and
then a dead dove wrapped in plastic. What is reality and what is cinema ? A naked
woman lying on a table. A hand grabs a scalpel and cuts through her groin. A
brother is obsessed with his sister, who's going to give birth. He decides to
care of things himself, extracting the baby with his bare hands. Nude people are
crawling in a field. The field has bloody holes. Jesus is tortured by wild naked
cannibal girls. A new martyrdom... Also includes a few bonus interviews
Tusk - Jodorowsky's most obscure film. An English girl and an Indian
elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny. French with no English
subtitles
Twice Upon a Time - Two wannabe heroes and
their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares. Full uncut
version!
Wedding Trough AKA The Pig Fucking Movie - An art-house black and white
film without dialogue. It's about a man who lives alone on a farm with his pigs.
He falls in love with his sow, has off-screen sex with her, and later she gives
birth to human/porcine hybrids. This movie is extremely rare (we can't even find
any record of it being publicly released) therefore the source wasn't the best
quality, the movie however is still watchable. And no, this isn't a pornographic
movie, weirdo.
When The Wind Blows - Excellent cartoon about an elderly British couple
build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack with the help of
government-issued pamphlets. Featuring a score by Roger Waters and David Bowie
Wild At Heart (Uncut) - Imported fully uncut version with extended Willem Dafoe decapitation!