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.
1930sJune 6, 2026
Characters 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.
1970sMay 19, 2026
Bob Fosse's 1979 autobiographical musical about his own self-destruction. Roy Scheider as the Fosse stand-in.
2000sMay 17, 2026
Lynch's 2001 Hollywood nightmare. Started as a TV pilot, became a feature.
1970s
1980sMay 17, 2026
Lynch's 1986 small-town surrealist thriller. MacLachlan, Rossellini, Hopper as Frank Booth.
1990sMay 17, 2026
Coens' 1991 Hollywood-hotel drama. Won Palme d'Or, Best Director, Best Actor at Cannes simultaneously.
1960sMay 17, 2026
Fellini's 1963 self-portrait. Mastroianni as a director who can't make his next film.
2000sMay 17, 2026
A ten-year-old girl trapped in a bathhouse for spirits. First non-English Best Animated Feature Oscar winner.
1990sMay 17, 2026
Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up.
1990s
1980sMay 16, 2026
Multiple animation studios contributed individual segments under different supervising animators. The film made approximately twenty million dollars on a nine million dollar budget.
1970sMay 15, 2026
Wizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
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