Hi there,
Dreams is one of my favourite films and was just wondering if anyone can recommend similarly beautiful, surreal, dream-like films of this nature?
Thanks
Jim
picnic at hanging rock and virgin suicides are two unparalleled and fantastic ones that automatically come to mind but you should check out this thread: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/board/nest/56433476 they name some good ones too
shareI would throw in The Fountain.
shareWaking life....surreal and dreamlike for sure. not nearly as beautiful (its animation). One of the talkiest films youll ever see.
shareRobot Carnival.
shareActually, there is very little else like it, but a few episodes did vaguely remind me of some other films. Here goes:
Mount Fuji in Red - Godzilla
The Blizzard - Kwaidan (Woman of the Snow episode)
The Crows - What Dreams May Come
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Inception because both films let the audience "enter" the dream realm.
shareLook up the movie "Mind Game". It is a very surreal anime movie.
shareI thought it was very similar to Kobayashi's Kwaiden. Kwaiden is filmed in the same vain, a feature length film comprised of many short films all containg strange japanese folklore and ghost stories. Kwaiden more on the ghost stories than Dreams but still very similar. I actually prefer Kwaiden to this but Kurosawa's Dreams was still a good film.
shareRe-Cycle.
shareTHE dreamlike film of dreamlike films is The Hour-Glass Sanatorium. it's not as visually beautiful as Dreams, but it does look good and you would be hard pressed to find a better cinematic approximation to the experience of dreaming
others to consider:
The Fall
What Dreams May Come (obviously influenced by Dreams)
Careful
Nuit Noire (Black Night)
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