Film
Perhaps the ultimate surreal film, an anthology feature with segments designed by the renowned surrealists Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder, and directed by the avant-garde film specialist Hans Richter
Film
Creepy and unnerving art-horror from Sweden’s Ronny Carlsson, whose talent for surreal apprehension is put to unforgettable use
Film
A strange, strange seventies horror flick about a carnivorous bed presided over by the spirit of Aubrey Beardsley(!)
Film
From Sweden’s Ronny Carlsson, an evocative 43 minute head-scratcher involving a tormented woman, a house in a forest and a great deal of artful grotesquerie
Nonfiction
The so-called Black Dahlia murder of 1947 continues to inspire all manner of speculation. EXQUISITE CORPSE, a profusely illustrated coffee table hardcover, is the latest in a long line of lengthy analyses on the still-unsolved crime
Film
This, one of several porn films made by the late Roger Watkins in the eighties, is a highly downbeat and surreal work
Nonfiction
An absolutely essential acquisition for lovers of Underground Comics, or, I contend, anyone with an interest in the visual arts
Film, Video Clip
A David Lynch movie that makes his previous puzzlers LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE seem downright coherent
Film
Heavily surreal horror from Argentina that’s confusing and incoherent
Film, Video Clip
Although it’s little known, this Polish-made reverie is one of the screen’s great mindbenders