List by Matt "Cinebro" Conti Pro
Films with a dreamlike atmosphere.
One of my favorite qualities of a film is for it to be dreamlike. After all, Scorsese says movies are like dreams. A film with a dreamlike atmosphere and tone can be an experience like no other. They take you away into the world the film inhabits.
A film that is dreamlike is made up of a variety of components:
Odd behavior from characters
Specific use of music and sound
A specific tone
A strange narrative (might be subject to an unreliable narrator or not)
Unnatural designs (sets, costumes, etc.)
And other various factors.
Contribution and participation is always welcome. :)
The Fall!!!
Fantastic film!!
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Images
La Jetée
Wrony
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Surreal Estate
Mother and Son
The Cabinet of Dr Caligali
Vampyr
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 version)
La Belle et la Bete
The Little Mermaid (1976)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Millennial Bee
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Black Moon
Eyes Wide Shut
Valerie and her Week of Wonders
Lenora
The Mirror
Paprika
Suspiria
The Company of Wolves
Paperhouse
3 Women
That should do
Great stuff. Can't believe I forgot some of those.
Does "The Cell" qualify?
Vanilla Sky has got some weird shit going on there.
@Travis
Well definitely the stuff where they're in his head. The other stuff? eh... not so much.
@Han
Can't believe I forgot that one.
You're right, Cinebro. The police procedural business would be the stuff only of boring dreams. Seriously though, very underappreciated film altogether.
virgin suicides puts me into a dream-like state, i think its all the soft focus and the music!
Brazil.
The Doors
The Virgin Suicides
What about Mr. Budwing, Europa, Bresson's Lancelot, The Discreet Charm, Taxi Driver/Bringing Out The Dead, Indiscretion of a Woman, Summer Interlude...
Sometimes it seems The Terminator is in a complete dream state,
It also seems that Nimrod Antals' work is about a subtextual world of dream-states just as much as Paul W.S. Anderson's work is, or Ole Bornedal, Song-Il Gon, Reha Erdem, Bernard Vorhaus or even early Borzage and early Robson.
This list seems abandoned, even before it had begun.
What about 3 Women and Black Swan?
Forgot to mention My Own Private Idaho too.