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JohnL
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« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2004, 01:20:34 AM »

How about The Forbidden Zone. Herve Villacheze(sp?) as the king of an alternate dimension. Cardboard sets (literally!), a topless princess, a frog-headed butler, a guy playing the pat of a teenage girl...
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« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2004, 01:38:42 AM »

Make sure you try his Tv series "Twin Peaks" you can find it collected.  Make sure it's not "Twin peaks- fire walk with me" which was a movie based on the series.
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Derf
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« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2004, 11:40:50 AM »

You might also try Dr. Seuss's only live action film, "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T." I truly enjoyed most of the movies that have been listed so far (anything from Terry Gilliam is bound to have some interesting imagery, though "Fisher King" was a bit disappointing to me), and I think any movie with Dr. Seuss-like sets in live action would fit what you're looking for.
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Bernie
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« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2004, 12:55:15 PM »

I can second these choices:  Greasers Palace, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Also, if you can find it, also by Robert Downey (Sr. not Jr.) -- Pound (a film he made between Putney Swope and Greaser's Palace, the whole thing takes place in a dog pound, all the dogs being played by members of his repetory company)

The 1930s exploitation classic, Maniac -- totally bizarre.

The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole -- the first half is hysterically funny, the second half -- well you have to see it....

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nobody
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« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2004, 04:10:39 PM »

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was a great movie. I saw it twice this weekend, which is a really unheard of move for me. Go see it, if you can find a theater that's playing it. It's great.
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« Reply #20 on: March 22, 2004, 04:59:42 PM »

Harold and Maude..hilarious. Although I had a hard time believing the age difference between them.
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Bernie
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« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2004, 05:51:02 PM »

Oh, no, you can believe it - it was a real age difference!
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2004, 06:03:14 PM »

Actually what I meant was...Wow what an age difference!
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2004, 06:08:21 PM »

Speaking of David Lynch...."The Lost Highway" is one freakin' bizarre movie!

I had to watch it twice in a row to figure it out.
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Leah
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« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2004, 06:46:47 PM »

a clockwork orange... definitly a good movie
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« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2004, 07:44:51 PM »

Don't forget Mulholland Drive. I watched it with a friend, and after it ended, we literally spent about half an hour in silence, each trying to piece together what we saw.

Then, of course, Eraserhead is in a class of its own... No way around it: David Lynch rocks.

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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2004, 07:47:06 PM »

*Spoiler* (I guess)



Even though she was covered up, the scene of them in bed made me sick.  Ugh.
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2004, 11:18:43 PM »

Incubus - 1966  Starring William Shatner. For some reason they thought  it would be neat to have all the dialogue in Esperanto.  No s**t!  They showed it on SciFi last year, they spent some money remastering it . It hadn't been seen in  almost 40 years.

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« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2004, 12:25:54 AM »

Cripes, fellows, I mean nobody has mentioned the REAL CLASSICS here.
Given the category, how can you leave out Bunuel's & Salvador Dali's collaboration(s) "Un Chien Andalou(The Andalusian Dog)"?  Or Jean Cocteau's "Le Sangre de Poete(Blood of a Poet)?
Blood of a Poet(1934/French):  A boy is rescued from a potentially fatal snowball fight by an insect-winged Negro giant with bug-eyes who appears in the middle of a snowstorm.  A hand grows a mouth and speaks.  A man falls through a mirror that becomes liquid.  This is the easy stuff . . .
Andalusian Dog(1929/Spanish):  A man slits open the eyeball of a woman as a razor-like cloud crosses a full moon in the sky.  Ants pour from a severed hand.  A man appears pulling a grand piano and the rotting corpses of donkeys.  A bare breast morphs into a sea urchin(And do remember, this is 1929).  Again, the easy stuff . . .
Cocteau's "Orpheus" is good too (1952 or so).  Beatniks ride their scooters through another liquid mirror into -- well, who knows where?
I dig the guy who mentioned "The Forbidden Zone" -- I agree.
Vermin can do better than Mulholland Drive, I know!!
Other old movies that fit here:
Anything by Carl Dreyer:  Vampyr, The Passion of Joan of Arc, etc.
Anything by Fritz Lang:  Metropolis, Seigfried, M, etc. etc.
Man, I'm rediscovering silent pictures and '30's pictures in a big way.  You can't beat some of this bizarre surreal absurd imagery!!
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« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2004, 08:46:31 PM »

Well if it's strange you are looking for, "The Pale Sky" is pretty odd. A man wakes up from a coma to find out that his penis has been donated to another patient. He goes looking for him.

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