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thew:
Nice to see a movie forum here. I find the music forum highly intimidating and the sandbox is more like quicksand.

Anyway, I thought we could use a thread for offbeat movie recommendations, so I'm starting with Little Otik, got this on Netflix last week and wow. It's a really bizarre movie. Story-wize it's cross between Pinocchio and Little Shop of Horrors as a childless couple raises a "baby" carved from roots of a tree stump. It uses stop motion and puppets for the creature and it's less a horror movie and more a dark fairytale.

I give it 4 out of 5 chinchillas. I would give it 5, but it's sort of unsettling and not the kind of movie I can watch over and over. I also rented a version of Alice and Wonderland by the same Czech filmmaker and it's supposed to be even more surreal.

Tinjessla:
YES! Finally, someone who had heard of this movie! I absolutely love it. Plus it satifies the animation geek inside me.

A good film i would recommend is 2046. It focuses  on a womanising writer who starts to confuse his current reality with the futuristic setting of his book. It's a beautiful film, which just sweeps you away with it's strange hybrid of 60's/futuristic glamour.

KharBevNor:
I'll kick off like a broken record with three gems of Icelandic cinema:

Utlaginn (Eng: Outlaw): A great, low budget, gritty historical romance, shot on that grainy seventies film that warms the cockles of the heart. It's probably the only serious Icelandic film I've ever really learned to love.

Reykjavik 101: A really fucking bizarre comedy from Iceland. (Reykjavik 101 is essentially the most urban place in the whole country). Features lesbians, iguanas, traffic wardens, alcoholism, dope, Salsa dancing, internet porn and the most wonderfully dysfunctional lead character ever. Not only are the characters brilliantly studied, and the plot inventive and well told, but this film easily has the most sex in it for any film I have ever seen with a plot. And this includes lesbian sex. Most film critics have long considered 'plot' and 'lesbian sex' to be mutually exclusives. Seriously, find and watch. It's the kind of film they sometimes show late at night on BBC Four when they think no-ones looking, because it's foreign and a bit avant-garde. You can get it on DVD though.

Also, it's the only comedy I know of that opens with the narrator walking off into the snow with his suicide note pinned to his chest.

Magnus: Another great Icelandic comedy. The humour here is as black as fucking night: It's got a complex plot involving terminal cancer, corrupt local governments, an illegal liquour still and genetic diseases. Easily one of the best examples of the Theatre of the Absurd in cinema. Utterly bizarre and highly nihilistic. Also one of my favourite films ever.

chupones:
Personally, you can't ever go wrong with Jan Svankmajer. I really enjoy his take on Faust.

If I were to recommend a smaller release title at this moment, it would Dopamine.

KharBevNor:
Oh, also, anything by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A damned genius. He turned The Canterbury Tales into something approaching soft porn, making him the only person ever to do justice to the five tales he selected.

"...and in he throng!"

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