Surrealism abandons realism’s rules to get at truths realism cannot reach. This tag collects reviews and essays on surrealist film and fiction: dream logic, unstable realities, and meaning that arrives sideways.
1930sCharacters appear and vanish. Vampyr earns its 8 as the strangest, dreamiest, and most genuinely uncanny vampire film ever made, a 1932 work by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer that abandons plot and logic in favor of pure nightmare.
1970sBob Fosse's 1979 autobiographical musical about his own self-destruction. Roy Scheider as the Fosse stand-in.
2000sLynch's 2001 Hollywood nightmare. Started as a TV pilot, became a feature.
1970s
1980sLynch's 1986 small-town surrealist thriller. MacLachlan, Rossellini, Hopper as Frank Booth.
1990sCoens' 1991 Hollywood-hotel drama. Won Palme d'Or, Best Director, Best Actor at Cannes simultaneously.
1960sFellini's 1963 self-portrait. Mastroianni as a director who can't make his next film.
2000sA ten-year-old girl trapped in a bathhouse for spirits. First non-English Best Animated Feature Oscar winner.
1990sBrad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up.
1960sBuñuel's 1962 surrealist drama. The Catholic Church, capitalism, ritual.
1990s
1980sMultiple animation studios contributed individual segments under different supervising animators. The film made approximately twenty million dollars on a nine million dollar budget.
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