Interstitial Film?

badducky · Mar 2, 2009

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?

AMCrenshaw · Mar 2, 2009

"Oldboy"

"Stay"

"Paperhouse"

"El Topo"

"Science of Sleep"

"Timecrimes"

"The Fountain"

"Manchurian Candidate"

"Waking Life"

"Three Extremes"

"Mirrormask"

AMC

Kitty Pryde · Mar 2, 2009

I'll throw out:

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Eraserhead

FLCL (technically a miniseries I think)

Woman on Top

ZakJarvis · Mar 2, 2009

I'm limiting myself to one film per director

The Quiet Earth

Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu)

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

La Double vie de Veronique

Vacas

The Holy Mountain

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Sileni

The Pillow Book

Rampo

Singapore sling: O anthropos pou agapise ena ptoma

The Mouse and his Child

Marquis

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

That ought to do for now.

Esopha · Mar 2, 2009

What about I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay?

badducky · Mar 2, 2009

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!

ZakJarvis · Mar 2, 2009

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.

Sharon Mock · Mar 2, 2009

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...)

Shweta · Mar 2, 2009

I second the "visit San Diego" option

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

Cranky · Mar 2, 2009

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.

payitforward · Mar 26, 2009

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?

Smiling Ted · Apr 19, 2009

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

payitforward · Apr 21, 2009

Just saw INK this weekend. Fabulous. Certainly in between genres.

maxmordon · May 3, 2009

Smiling Ted said:
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...

Kalyke · May 30, 2009

Fight Club
I *heart* Huckabees
Almost any fim by David Lynch
Adaptation (another Charlie Kauffman film)

Aggy B. · May 31, 2009

Probably Tarkovsky's The Mirror and Stalker.

mkcbunny · Jun 13, 2009

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.

TheAmir · Jun 16, 2009

Eraserhead
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Ichi the Killer
Begotten

The Seventh Seal All seriously messed up movies.

Irysangel · Jun 17, 2009

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.

Kitty Pryde · Jun 17, 2009

Irysangel said:
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.

Aggy B. · Jun 17, 2009

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.)

Irysangel · Jun 17, 2009

Kitty Pryde said:
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."

TheAmir · Jun 17, 2009

Aggy B. said:
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.

Shweta · Jul 7, 2009

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.

Dawnstorm · Jul 7, 2009

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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