Top Ten Tuesdays

[Crimson Blade]

Top 10 Absurd films.

1.Videodrome (1983)
2. The Skin I Live In (2011)
3. Ichi The Killer (2001)
4. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (1972)
5. You, The Living (2007)
6. The Story of Marie and Julian(2003)
7. Little Otik(2000)
8. The Brood (1979)
9. Mood Indigo (2013)
10.Antichrist(2009)

[Demoncrat]

Nice pick keir wid da Funky Forest ... it is quite fitting really ....

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I've just checked my online database and it seems I have only watched my Criterion Collection BD once, and that was nearly 3 years ago (25/11/15)!

Maybe I'll watch it again this weekend and see if it fits the definition of 'absurdist' and, if so, if I think enough of it for it to make my list.

Absurd humour is a frequent trademark of the Czech new wave. I think its probably more apparent in Milos Forman's films (see firemans ball) but I'm genuinely surprised no one seems to pick up on some of the genuine humour inbetween the dark fairy tail elements of Valerie. The vampire that feeds on the blood of chickens for example or the anticlerical humour that mocks the church and its attitudes to femininity.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Nice pick keir wid da Funky Forest ... it is quite fitting really ....

I wanted to pick Gozu again but Funky forest is the citizen kane of Japanese absurdism. Plus I wanted to try and pick a few different titles this time.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I wanted to pick Gozu again but Funky forest is the citizen kane of Japanese absurdism. Plus I wanted to try and pick a few different titles this time.

Indeed. Says the man who picks Calvaire for any topic .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Absurd humour is a frequent trademark of the Czech new wave. I think its probably more apparent in Milos Forman's films (see firemans ball) but I'm genuinely surprised no one seems to pick up on some of the genuine humour inbetween the dark fairy tail elements of Valerie. The vampire that feeds on the blood of chickens for example or the anticlerical humour that mocks the church and its attitudes to femininity.

Surely humour doesn't mean absurdity though?

Speaking of absurd i watched Malatesta's Carnival of Blood last night. That really was nonsensical stuff.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Surely humour doesn't mean absurdity though?

Speaking of absurd i watched Malatesta's Carnival of Blood last night. That really was nonsensical stuff.

Indeed D. Nail - head etc . That's the spirit I watched it in. Having seen part of it on YT, (cough) with a rather sneering commentary track, I thought that'll be an antidote to whatever mainstream piffle I'm forced to endure in the name of entertainment .

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

ABSURD FILMS

1. Duck Soup
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Monty Python's and the Holy Grail
4. Brazil
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Fight Club
7. Fargo
8. Eraserhead
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. O Lucky Man!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

ABSURD FILMS

1. Duck Soup
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Monty Python's and the Holy Grail
4. Brazil
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Fight Club
7. Fargo
8. Eraserhead
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. O Lucky Man

Now i love Fargo but would never class it as absurd. Quirky definitely but absurd never!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Now i love Fargo but would never class it as absurd. Quirky definitely but absurd never!

I look at the absurdity of the situation with the kidnapping in itself, of the money being forever buried, of Jerry Lundegaard's ridiculous attempts to control criminals while holding down a mundane existence flogging cars with dodgy sealant and it all boils together as, like most Coen Brothers films, absurd.