Chaotic Cinema

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I came across an interesting, self-proclaimed Chaotic Cinema list on Letterboxd of over 2,600 surreal/experimental/cult/horror films and wanted to transport it here. But inputting all those films was an enormous task, and gigantic ICM lists are always so cumbersome to load and use. So, I compromised and only entered the films I haven't seen. Which initially amounted to just about half of them. This makes the list less useful to others, but it's certainly SOME use to other fans of this warped cinematic realm. If nothing else, you can gloat about whichever films you've seen and I haven't!

Inputting this list also led to importing multiple films to the ICM database. But unfortunately, there was also a surprising number of films that don't even have IMDb pages:

A Vessel, the Ideas Pass Through 2021 / AAA AAA 1978 / Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth 2012 / Avant Coureur/Raster Relief 1983 / Chasse des Touches 1959 / Circumcision of Participant Observation 2013 / Conditions 2014 / Dead Dance 2009 / Diignus Vindice Nodus 1982 / Double 2001, a.k.a. Bunshin / Earth Pulse 1975 / Embodiment of Darkness 2018 / Epiphany 1984 / Excavations 1979 / Forbidden Symmetries 2014 / Geflecht 1976 / General Motors 1976 / Gewebe 1976 / He Walked Away 2006 / Highbushes Burning 2018 / Hollis Well 2012 / Horror Film 1 1971 / I Am Making Art 1971 / I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971 / Intercourse With... 1978 / Lanzarote 2014 / Light of the Body 2004 / Love Reinvented 1979, a.k.a. L'Amour Réinventé / Magic Mirror 2013 / Measures of Volatility 1979 / Moonblack 1968 / My Very Beautiful Movie 1974 / The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway 2002 / Number Two 2019 / Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady 1976 / Performance of Video Imaging Tools 1970-1978 (a compilation of 17 video clips by various directors) / Phenomenon 2019 / Pictures of the Lost 1978 / Precession of the Simulacra 1992 / Primarily Speaking 1983 / Primary Time 1974 / Quarry 2015 / R-G-B 1974 / Relation in Time 1977 / Reverberlin 2006 / Scan Processor Studies 1973 / Script 1974 / Set of Co-incidence 1974 / Songs for Synthesized Soprano 1990 / Spinout 1983 / Teaching a Plant the Alphabet 1972 / Ten Years in the Sun 2015 / The Dream of the Little Dancing Men 1997 / The Extinct Suite 2017 / The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts 2011 / The Poacher Woman of the Montafon 2011 / The Seismic Form 2020 / Theme Song 1973 / Unbalance 2006 / Up to and Including Her Limits 1976 / Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch the Movie 2013 / Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia) 1984 / Wilderness Series 2016

I'm going to create IMDb pages for as many of these films as my patience allows -- we'll see how I do. I believe I'm up to 145 adds now. I'll delete titles from the above block of text as I add them to ICM.

I continue to remove films that I see. The list initially was 1,108 films but is much smaller now. But there's an extra wrinkle: The Letterboxd user continues to expand the list, so I'm adding films as well as subtracting them.

PS Two substantial misgivings about this list: 1) Too many trashy horror movies included, just because they're gory or shocking. 2) The list's creator has a creepy fetish about arty women in film. Especially Tilda Swinton -- he runs Facebook pages about her and apparently hoards hundreds of photos of her. And this kink infects the list, which has loads of marginal, female-directed films and, of course, extra Swinton films. He's fixated on Cate Blanchett too.

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  1. 77 +1

    Born of Fire

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 97 +1

    Ceci ne serait pas une pipe

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    Cold Lazarus

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Traumstadt

    1973 — a.k.a. Dream City, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ilektrikos angelos

    1981 — a.k.a. Electric Angel, in 0 top lists Check
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    H2S

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
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    I Can See You

    2008, in 1 top list Check
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    Ida y vuelta

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 235 +3

    Impressions de la haute Mongolie

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
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    Karaoke

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Leçon de vie

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
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    One Summer

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
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    Delirios de amor: Párpados

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
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    Roseland

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
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    Salome

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
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    Still Twisted

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Du soleil pour les gueux

    2001 — a.k.a. Sunshine for the Poor, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Oregonian

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
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    Stridulum

    1979 — a.k.a. The Visitor, in 0 top lists Check
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    L'araignée d'eau

    1971 — a.k.a. The Water Spider, in 0 top lists Check
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    This Filthy Earth

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Twisted Tales

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Uliisses

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Way Upstream

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
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    Screen Two: Will You Love Me Tomorrow

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
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    À l'ombre de la canaille bleue

    1986 — a.k.a. In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal, in 2 top lists Check
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    Pourvoir

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Orchard End Murder

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
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    Wir

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Das offene Universum

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
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    Seated Figures

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    Executions

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
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    Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual...

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 9, 2024 by Ebbywebby; source