Interstitial Film?

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Just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of "Interstitial" films. I can think of only a couple off hand. (La Jetee, Being John Malkovich, and... no more?)

I'm sure there's gobs.

Recommendations?
 

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"Oldboy"

"Stay"

"Paperhouse"

"El Topo"

"Science of Sleep"

"Timecrimes"

"The Fountain"

"Manchurian Candidate"

"Waking Life"

"Three Extremes"

"Mirrormask"






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I'll throw out:

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Eraserhead

FLCL (technically a miniseries I think)

Woman on Top
 

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You do know I don't have Netflix...

Argh.

Oh, well. I hear Blockbuster is making great strides in the netflix direction...

I'd throw out "Cowboy Bebop" if we're including anime series. I loved FLCL!
 

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Blockbuster might well have The Navigator.

I should have also added The New World, which is totally interstitial, and Blockbuster almost certainly has it.

Alternately, you could visit San Diego. I've got all those films.
 

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Silly 'ducky, you expected interstitial movies to be easy to find?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is slipstream SF. (But also, like Being John Malkovich, written by Charlie Kaufman. Speaking of whom, I don't particularly recommend Synecdoche, New York...)
 

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I second the "visit San Diego" option :)

And I'm so glad someone here knows film, because I so do not.
 

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I don't think this is *really* interstitial, but I got that sort of feel when I watched Pale Rider last night on AMC. (Kickass movie, btw)

There are hints that The Preacher is something supernatural, anyway, and everyone just accepts his presence without too much thought. Even him administering a hickory stick beatdown on the street (preacher or no) doesn't really even raise many eyebrows.

Of course, I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out. :D
 

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Try Alice and Faust by Svankmajer.

Those who recommended the films of Jodorowsky are right on! (try Santa Sangre as well).

And perhaps had Tin Drum to the list?
 

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Rhinoceros.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Northern Exposure (TV).

Terry Gilliam: Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
 

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Rhinoceros.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Northern Exposure (TV).
Terry Gilliam: Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.


Good to see someone mentioning Gilliam! Though I am not sure if Forbidden Zone counts...
 

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Fight Club
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Almost any fim by David Lynch
Adaptation (another Charlie Kauffman film)
 

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In addition to Lynch, you can't go wrong with a lot of Cronenberg. If you want to mix up the Ballard/Cronenberg, there's Crash—which is a flawed movie, for sure, but I figure that the point here isn't always to find the best thing, but interesting things.

Southland Tales is a movie that pretty much defines definition. I'd call it an ambitious failure, but one that I never wanted to turn off when watching. I felt the whole time like it was this unique, completely odd combination of genres and styles, but that it was admirable for being unique. The musical sequence with Justin Timberlake and the many Marilyn Monoes is just out of this world.

The Singing Detective—the Dennis Potter, not the remake.
 

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Eraserhead
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Ichi the Killer
Begotten

The Seventh Seal All seriously messed up movies.
 

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Did you ever see Night Watch? Russian film, and I *think* it's supposed to be contemporary fantasy but it's so very bizarre that it reads more like a movie-length hallucination. Very strange but visually powerful, I thought. You might like it.
 

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Did you ever see Night Watch? Russian film, and I *think* it's supposed to be contemporary fantasy but it's so very bizarre that it reads more like a movie-length hallucination. Very strange but visually powerful, I thought. You might like it.

Are you talking about the 2004 Night Watch? MC named Anton? Lots of vampires and good ole Russian despair? Hot lady who turns into a tiger? It's based on a straight-up urban fantasy novel by Sergei Lukyanenko. They didn't do that great of a job turning it into the movie, making it fairly incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't already read the book. I would probably call it more of 'badly done' than interstitial.

The book, on the other hand, is fabulous. As are the other books in the series.
 

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I would probably call it more of 'badly done' than interstitial.

I was thinking the same thing.

@TheAmir: "Messed up" doesn't equal interstitial either. In fact, I wouldn't consider The Seventh Seal interstitial, but that's JMO. (Not having seen the others I can't comment on their appropriateness to the thread.)
 

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Are you talking about the 2004 Night Watch? MC named Anton? Lots of vampires and good ole Russian despair? Hot lady who turns into a tiger? It's based on a straight-up urban fantasy novel by Sergei Lukyanenko. They didn't do that great of a job turning it into the movie, making it fairly incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't already read the book. I would probably call it more of 'badly done' than interstitial.

The book, on the other hand, is fabulous. As are the other books in the series.

I haven't read the book, but I did see the movie and after it was done, I turned to my husband and said "Well, that was...weird." :)
 

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I was thinking the same thing.

@TheAmir: "Messed up" doesn't equal interstitial either. In fact, I wouldn't consider The Seventh Seal interstitial, but that's JMO. (Not having seen the others I can't comment on their appropriateness to the thread.)

"Messed up" meaning, in this context, full of symbolic meaning and rather hard for the average person to "grasp" unless it's explained in full detail. There was a lot of use of symbolic metaphor and efigy play in the Seventh Seal. At least I thought there was - the average movie-goer probably isn't going to "get" it, hence why I think it's appropriate to mention here.
 

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Heads up -- search youtube for "Dali Disney Destino" for serious amounts of awesome WTF.
If you can find it, look at the 6 minute 47 second version.
 

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I didn't expect Disney in here...

...but that was great. (I found a 6:46 version; does the second make a difference?)

My favourite part was the bell/woman shadow/object ambiguity section.
 
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