Movies with most sustained "dreamlike" atmospheres?

[darkstar]

Doesn't have to be built upon multiple dream sequences, per se. Just sustained hypnotic, other world atmosphere.

I haven't been sleeping so well, so I've found I enjoy dozing off to images that wash over me with sound kind of low. Movies include Inland Empire, Last Year at Marienbad, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, 2001, Versuchka(has anyone seen this?).

I guess by definition lots of the titles will be arty/experimental, but that doesn't have to be the case. As above, some art-leaning horror movies are fairly good at this, but then have jarring sections (Suspiria) that defeat my purpose (and it is all about me, you know....)

Anyone else like to fall asleep like this?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Eraserhead.

[darkstar]

4. Good one.

I almost put it in the other night. But unlike Inland Empire's empty rooms, there's kind of a claustrophobic intensity to that one for me personally.

But you are in the zone. Thanks.

[begin_within]

2. Soy Cuba and Koyaanisqatsi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/

[darkstar]

5. Thanks.

Forgot about Koyaanisqatsi and it's mate. Will check out other title and put the Koyaanisqatsi and the other one on my neflix Q right now.

:hi:

[begin_within]

7. Netfilx has it under "I Am Cuba"

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/24092535?trkid=73

The film is in English, Spanish and Russian simultaneously but that doesn't interfere. The stories are mostly told through visuals anyway. It's famous for its cinematography.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" ("L'Orphée)

or "Beauty and the Beast" (not the Disney version).

Both very dream-like.

[darkstar]

6. Thanks

Orpheous does fit the bill. Is Beauty the one by, hmmm, Renoir or something>

Plus, Orpheus reminded me of another: Wild Strawberries. Depressing, as I recall, but kind of the mood I'm thinking of...

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

17. And speaking of Wild Strawberries: 8½ also by Fellini.

[Bongo Prophet]

37. "Beauty" is Cocteau as well. His "Testament of Orpheus" and "Blood of a poet" also quite dreamlike.

Powaqatsi is more sedate than Koyaanisqatsi, including Glass' soundtrack. Very beautiful.
Baraka is even more humanistic, and won't send you off troubled...

[The Straight Story]

8. Jacob's Ladder

:)

[emmadoggy]

9. What Dreams May Come?

Not sure if that's what you're going for. Some really stunning and beautiful visual effects.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. Exactly what I was thinking....

[nytemare]

20. Ding ding ding!

We have a winner!

Beautiful film.

[darkstar]

22. Thanks ...I just read about it and viewed some stills

Had slipped past me. Looks totally cool.

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

23. That's the first movie that came to my mind, too.

Or as we used to call it "Wet Dreams May Come." :evilgrin:

[Swede]

10. Blade Runner,maybe?

A rather dark dream.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Jacob's Ladder

:evilgrin:

...oops, you said no jarring scenes....

I wear headphones to bed, usually falling asleep to a good audiobook. Last night's adventure was Tolkein's Silmarillion.

[regnaD kciN]

12. "Heart of Glass"...

A surreal fable by Werner Herzog, who hypnotized some of the actors to enhance the otherworldly quality of their performances.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. How about "The Fountain" ?

It's kind of dream like in a lot of parts. It's a neat movie anyhow.

[nosillies]

14. Mulholland Drive

[saltpoint]

35. Thumbs up to that choice.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Inland Empire and Last Year at Marienbad were gonna be on the top of my list, haha.

Almost anything by Lynch really.

Waking Life
Takashi Miike's segment "Box" from the anthology film Three Extremes
Stay
Eyes Wide Shut
Caché
Element Of Crime

I could probably think of tonnes more, but I think that's enough.

[darkstar]

25. Hey, my Lars von Trier watching amigo...

Did you ever catch up to LvT's "Medea"? That's a good-un all around. Very dreamy and only disturbing at the, uh, end.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Nope, I've had no luck finding it, unfortunately.

[darkstar]

28. Netflix has it

But if you had netflix, I'm pretty sure you'd have found it.

Maybe some day it'll be on IFC again. That's where I saw it first.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. I don't have Netflix (I'm Canadian, so I'd have zip.ca instead, but I'd have found it there too)

Nor do I have IFC.

[DS1]

18. Extreme end of the spectrum, the opening sequence to Saving Private Ryan

[baldguy]

19. What Dreams May Come

[mitchum]

21. Kenneth Anger's "Rabbit's Moon"

[Richardo]

24. Memento

[Bennyboy]

27. The New World...

That whole movie was filmed like a dream sequence.

[darkstar]

29. Thanks. I think that's the one I haven't seen.

I.e., 1492 came out around the same time, right?

And if I remember right, you should know. You like my avatar and his band, right?

:hi:

[Bennyboy]

36. I might have seen em 1 or 500 times....

Not sure about 1492.

[alphafemale]

30. Susperia.

Creepy as hell.

[MrScorpio]

31. The Doors

Love that flick

[BrotherBuzz]

32. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I often have odd dreams....

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

[saltpoint]

34. John Greyson's LILIES (erotic delirium) or maybe David Lynch's

MULHOLLAND DRIVE.

[Bongo Prophet]

38. Linklater's "Waking Life"

Others that might be interesting to experiment with:

Dark City
Naked Lunch
Alphaville
Quest for Fire
2001

[Arkham House]

39. "The Fountainhead"

...from Ayn Rand's novel...whatever you think of her or "Objectivism", this movie sustains an atmosphere of a world resembling ours, fascinating--but not quite real...ending with Gary Cooper astride a skyscraper, challenging the clouds. Very bizarre film, and yes, quite "dreamlike"...

[mitchum]

40. "Days Of Heaven"