October 2nd, 2009 / 11:44 am
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6 Film Scenes with Strange Passages

La Prisonnière, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968

Twin Peaks, episode 30, David Lynch, 1991

The Trial, Orson Welles, 1962

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979

Gerry, Gus van Sant, 2003

Satyricon, Federico Fellini, 1969

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52 Comments

  1. jereme

      really, no love for 8 1/2 by fellini instead?

      i think the beginning dream sequence is the craziest shit i’ve ever seen on film, period.

  2. jereme

      really, no love for 8 1/2 by fellini instead?

      i think the beginning dream sequence is the craziest shit i’ve ever seen on film, period.

  3. Blake Butler

      8 1/2 is good but i’ve always been partial to satyricon

  4. Blake Butler

      8 1/2 is good but i’ve always been partial to satyricon

  5. jereme

      hmm i’m not talking the entire film. i’m talking dream sequence.

      i’ve always thought satyricon felt contrived, like it was trying too hard especially in stuff like the above scene.

      each his own.

  6. jereme

      hmm i’m not talking the entire film. i’m talking dream sequence.

      i’ve always thought satyricon felt contrived, like it was trying too hard especially in stuff like the above scene.

      each his own.

  7. reynard

      thinking about showing that clip & cooper’s first dream to the freshman drama class i’m subbing as an example of what film can also be like. we’ve been watching some james franco movie directed by tony bill. going to say: ‘and now for something completely differentPr

  8. reynard

      thinking about showing that clip & cooper’s first dream to the freshman drama class i’m subbing as an example of what film can also be like. we’ve been watching some james franco movie directed by tony bill. going to say: ‘and now for something completely differentPr

  9. jereme

      oh and i would consider luis bunuel’s “Cet obscur objet du désir” a movie told like a dream and would throw that up on the list too.

  10. jereme

      oh and i would consider luis bunuel’s “Cet obscur objet du désir” a movie told like a dream and would throw that up on the list too.

  11. jereme

      my list of course, not yours.

  12. jereme

      my list of course, not yours.

  13. Blake Butler

      bunuel is a real man. i love the exterminating angel and belle du jour. obscure object is nuts too

  14. Blake Butler

      bunuel is a real man. i love the exterminating angel and belle du jour. obscure object is nuts too

  15. Blake Butler

      that would be a good class

  16. Blake Butler

      that would be a good class

  17. Merzmensch

      Oh yes, Stalker, Twin Peaks!
      I’d add “Un chien andalou”, but this whole movve is actually just a one long strange passage.

  18. Merzmensch

      Oh yes, Stalker, Twin Peaks!
      I’d add “Un chien andalou”, but this whole movve is actually just a one long strange passage.

  19. davidpeak

      nice post. i’m enjoying these. stalker is a personal fav

  20. davidpeak

      nice post. i’m enjoying these. stalker is a personal fav

  21. Matthew Simmons

      I thought maybe this was a post about movies with long, weird corridors.

  22. Matthew Simmons

      I thought maybe this was a post about movies with long, weird corridors.

  23. reynard

      oh man, what about the hallway of the hotel in the phantom of libertPr

  24. reynard

      oh man, what about the hallway of the hotel in the phantom of libertPr

  25. Bill Ford

      I wanted to like Gerry. Movie should have been 30 minutes.

  26. Bill Ford

      I wanted to like Gerry. Movie should have been 30 minutes.

  27. Ken Baumann

      whaddabout Le Rectum in Irreversible? c’mon!

  28. Ken Baumann

      whaddabout Le Rectum in Irreversible? c’mon!

  29. Blake Butler

      i looked for a good while and couldnt find it on youtube. otherwise it would have been there

  30. Blake Butler

      i looked for a good while and couldnt find it on youtube. otherwise it would have been there

  31. jereme

      hmm i was trying to think of a japanese movie with a good dream sequence and couldn’t.

      i think the scene from “requiem for a dream” where the fridge tries to eat the old lady should be up on the best american dream sequences but not greatest of all.

      thought about 8 1/2 a lot today and still think the opening dream sequence owns all.

  32. jereme

      hmm i was trying to think of a japanese movie with a good dream sequence and couldn’t.

      i think the scene from “requiem for a dream” where the fridge tries to eat the old lady should be up on the best american dream sequences but not greatest of all.

      thought about 8 1/2 a lot today and still think the opening dream sequence owns all.

  33. davidpeak

      all of kwaidan is a magnificent dream sequence–especially the one about the blind guy who gets his ears torn off by the psychotic warrior ghosts

  34. davidpeak

      all of kwaidan is a magnificent dream sequence–especially the one about the blind guy who gets his ears torn off by the psychotic warrior ghosts

  35. davidpeak

      and concur RE 8 1/2. those first two minutes inspired almost all of Brazil and floored me the first time i saw it

  36. davidpeak

      and concur RE 8 1/2. those first two minutes inspired almost all of Brazil and floored me the first time i saw it

  37. jereme

      sadly i have not watched kwaidan but i have read/watched rashoman. if that counts for anything.

  38. jereme

      sadly i have not watched kwaidan but i have read/watched rashoman. if that counts for anything.

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  41. Ani Smith

      Kurosawa?

  42. Ani Smith

      Kurosawa?

  43. jereme

      what about him? great director, but i can’t think of any dream sequences that i would consider awesome or ball busting or clit banging or whatever.

  44. jereme

      what about him? great director, but i can’t think of any dream sequences that i would consider awesome or ball busting or clit banging or whatever.

  45. Ani Smith

      I remember loving Dreams but it’s been like 10+ years since I saw it so I was hoping you’d go ‘oh yeeeeeeeeeeah’ …

  46. Ani Smith

      I remember loving Dreams but it’s been like 10+ years since I saw it so I was hoping you’d go ‘oh yeeeeeeeeeeah’ …

  47. jereme

      i know what you were hoping kid but you underestimated my knowledge and recollection of world cinema.

      tsk tsk.

  48. jereme

      i know what you were hoping kid but you underestimated my knowledge and recollection of world cinema.

      tsk tsk.

  49. Bill Ford

      Any watch the Inland Empire extras wherein David Lynch cooks quinoa? What a loon.

  50. Bill Ford

      Any watch the Inland Empire extras wherein David Lynch cooks quinoa? What a loon.

  51. darby
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