Freaks. When I first saw that it blew my mind in the same kind of way that the more quiz-type mind fuck films do. It might be a simple story but the visually images are beyond striking and when coupled with the emotions the film generates in you it must be one of the most unique experiences and feelings you can get in cinema.
Taxidermia
Ex-Drummer
Malle’s Black Moon. and Performance, that movie is voodoo and has a menacing energy field.
Basic
The Usual Suspects
Rashomon
Persona
Suicide Club (though not a great movie)
America Psycho
Werckmeister Harmonies
Helas pour moi
Ive seen a ton of films, but L’Avventura and Persona are the biggers WTF films I have ever seen. I guess thats what makes them great. You could ask 10 people what these films are about, and all ten will give you a different answer.
Gummo.
Wavelength by Michael Snow for its purity—any Bella Tarr film after and incl Santantango.
the list is missing Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain” and Tarsem’s “The Fall”…!
I prefer for films to be of the mind-make love variety :)
Eraserhead and INLAND EMPIRE
(but this may not be a good thing, as Mike Spence points outs)
Slacker
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
Hotel
Visitor Q
The Andalusian Dog
Begotten
The Tracey Fragments
2001 a space odyssey and anything Bunuel…
also check out Salvador Dali and David Lynch
to anyone that would put Visitor Q on here: it wishes it was
Audition by Takashi Miike
Vital by Shinya Tsukomoto
Rampo Noir (director unknown at the moment)
The End of Evangelion + Death/Rebirth
Hey, VISITOR Q is good. But I think it’s one of those ones that gets most of it’s respect and cred from avid Miike fans such as myself. I saw it, thought it was ok, then read the essay about it written in Tom Mes’ book on Miike’s filmography, and then fell in love with it upon seeing it again.
Clean, Shaven really played with my mind. I would highly recomend it to someone looking for a unique film experience.
alos try Pink Floyd The Wall.
Wild at Heart was odd but fun.
Does my mind not being able to comprehend how films like The Stepfather keep making money count?
No one’s mentioned Koyaanisqatsi!?! That movie will start out all sweet and tender with your mind, then get rough with some serious fucking, then let you go with a nice slow kiss. Also, there’s crop circles.
anything by takashi mike is pretty fucked up.
also, ‘slaughter high’ is kind of a mindfuck, in the sense that its incredible that the movie got made.
‘happy birthday to me’ definitely caught me off guard, too.
@Fraser-Orr youve sold me with your description of the effect of that movie. i must go find it now.
Fight Club, but more so the book than the movie.
Fight Club, but more so the book than the movie.
(yargh, doublepost)
“Fanny and Alexander” is the slowest fucking of the mind you will ever receive, but it will be fucked.
“Fanny and Alexander” is the slowest fucking of the mind you will ever receive, but it will be fucked.
‘Un chien andalou’ (1929), ‘The Garden’ (1990), ‘Meshes of the afternoon’ (1943) and ‘Fireworks’ (1947).
all brilliant…. all avant gaurd….. all fuck with my mind.
SCHIZOPOLIS!!!! WONDERFUL!
2001: A Space Odyssey, Rashomon, The Usual Suspects
prudence
yeah, Marq, TETSUO is right at the top of the list. It must have taken years to make that picture.