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"Lunacy", Jan Å vankmajer
 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-05-18 18:45 [#02208007]
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Good evening,

Has anybody seen "Lunacy" by Jan Å vankmajer, or any other
films by him?

I'd highly recommend checking him out. Nightmarish, surreal,
subversive stuff.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-18 18:59 [#02208009]
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what the fuck is happening ?


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-05-18 19:09 [#02208011]
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Trust me, it does make sense - if you watch the entire thing
with subtitles, I mean. I'll never look at a mental asylum
the same way.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-18 19:20 [#02208022]
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Does it really??? <----this adds to the surrealism i
think

?


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-18 19:45 [#02208031]
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i'm sorry but... dancing meat?!!


 

offline -V- from Ensenada Drive on 2008-05-18 20:27 [#02208069]
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I've seen most of his shorts and all of his longer films
except for Lunacy. I recommend checking out the Brothers
Quay, if you haven't already--Svankmajer's work influenced
them a bit.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-05-18 20:40 [#02208075]
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haha genius! i'll check that out.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-18 20:53 [#02208079]
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Don't tell me you understood the dancing meat.
MEAT: "I dance to be free like the birds"
FAT MAN: "But who will eat this meat that dances?"
PAINTED WOMEN: "I cannot dance, for they have painted me"

See i can be proper surreal too

?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-05-18 21:00 [#02208081]
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i can't speak czech but it makes me '?'

also i've been in prague lately so it makes me =)


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-18 21:04 [#02208082]
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I think if i had subtitles to read, a book on what the film
meant, and someone next to me carefully explaining every
detail, i would still not get it.



 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-05-18 21:08 [#02208085]
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you won't need to understand after the twelfth beer!


 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2008-05-18 21:43 [#02208090]
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I think I've seen everything he's done, but Sileni is not
among the best. It's not among the worst either.

You're

welcome/


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2008-05-19 01:43 [#02208107]
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I've seen Faust. I liked it, but it didn't make sense to me.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2008-05-19 04:19 [#02208115]
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I thought you watched films.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-05-19 06:34 [#02208132]
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Well, the meat could definitely mean something - or it could
mean nothing in particular. Either way, I don't really mind,
because it was great fun watching meat crawl about and do
all sorts of disgusting and funny things, and it added
something to the overall atmosphere. :-) Maybe if your brain
doesn't enjoy the absurd or surrealism then it might not do
much for you; I just like all that stuff for some reason.
It's beautiful escapism. :-) Though it doesn't apply to this
film, not having to worry about any specific "meaning" in
anything and reveling in non sequiturs or bizarre and
creative juxtapositions is great fun.



 

offline Advocate on 2008-05-19 08:53 [#02208156]
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I really like 'Alice'. It's an adaptation of Alice in
Wonderland.


 

offline skeksi23 from ∆ on 2008-05-19 11:24 [#02208203]
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yeah top film, dont think Ive not liked any of his stuff
that I've seen..
thought lunacy was pretty hilarious in parts, those prison
warder type guys that he keeps seeing in his dream well did
my head in hehe



 


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