Dream a Little Dream

[cobaltfram]

For my money, Mulholland Drive would be a perfect fit somewhere on here; highbrow though he is, Lynch may be one of our greatest living directors, and one of the few who could be said to actually touch the subconscious on screen. But a very good list even without my favorite movie of the 2000s.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

Awww, no Total Recall? But... its ahnold!

 

[Evilmonkey25]

I still had hope that he would mention papprika even that he said tha he would'n't mention any Anime...

Awww maaaaaaaaan, paprika is soooooooooooo goooooooooood...Not as good as Brazil (BTW, i'm actually from Brazil) but still awesome!

 

[Ian S]

Kind of surprised you left out The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Pan's Labyrinth. Like Sucker Punch and Brazil, they also deal with protagonists who use fantasy to escape their mundane, oppressive and even bleak realities

 

[Juan Regular]

My list would´ve probably included Waking Life. I love that film. I´m also a bit of a Linklater fanboy.

 

[Moeez]

Did Sean Connery come to Christopher Reeves as a sagely dragon with that advice on how to avoid typecasting?

As for other dream movies that are required viewing, you need to see Un Chien Andalou (1929), which you can see right now here. This is where it all started.

 

[FROGGEman2]

I know, I know, the disclaimer, but Paprika.

Just saying.

 

[Baneat]

Bob you missed the most obvious dream story that really should be on this list - A waking life. It's filmed in rotoscope by Richard Linklater (I think) - who then went onto A Scanner Darkly using similar concepts. It's metaphysical and epistemological on a serious level, so my attraction to it may be a little biased

 

[Jenx]

Reeve is a present-day playwright who falls in love with the photo of a woman from 1912, whom he believes he also met as an old woman the night before she died (it's complicated). He attempts to use a technique involving dreamlike self-hypnosis to travel back to her time.

Huh....wasn't that kind of a plot point in The Invisibles, except the play writer was King Mob? (ah yeah uuuh, spoilers...)

 

[Bloodstain]

Oh, I remember Spellbound. Great film.
I think I'm going to watch the other ones.

 

[Grahav]

I was very young when trailers of "Brazil" passed in cable.

Being brazilian, and young, I was like "What the Hell!". Specially with the soundtrack of a famous brazilian song.

Now that I know what it is about I may see it.

But I doubt that the film's bureaucrats are worse than ours. With one of the biggest taxations of the world (in a country in development, mind you), rampaging corruption and insane paperwork it will be ayough one to "defeat".

 

[WaderiAAA]

Spellbound sounds like a must see.

Being a guy who missed the eighties by a few months, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the only one of those I have seen.

 

[ThinkerT]

To this day, just shy of a decade later, it remains a career highpoint for everyone involved.

Bit of a big claim in the context of Interview with the Vampire (by far Dunst's most compelling performance), LOTR (which I find irredeemably boring, but many people seem to think is the best thing since sliced bread), and Quills, but I think you certainly have an arguable case.

I think it barely makes Kate Winslet's top 3 career highpoints, at best right behind The Reader and Titanic.

 

[twm1709]

You know, for moment I wondered if Bob was taking an easy route and including Nightmare on Elm street in the list.

 

[13lackfriday]

Thanks a million for including Eternal Sunshine.

It stands as one of my favorite indie films of all time not only for fascinating premise but also actors (esp. Carrey) breaking typecast to do something truly simplistic yet great.

I loved the poignant ending message that accepting something, as imperfect as it is, and making the best of it is alright.

 

[Mailman]

I enjoyed Little Nemo The Dream Master the animated film. Does that count?

 

[jedizero]

I enjoyed Little Nemo The Dream Master the animated film. Does that count?

It most certainly does.

Little Nemo is *awesome*.
Best damn non-Disney/Miyazaki animation I've ever seen.

It blends western and eastern animation together marvelously.

 

[RTR]

Would've been nice to hace an interview with the Sucker Punch crew, but this'll do.
Eternal SUnshine was brilliant

 

[Outright Villainy]

Yeah, Brazil was great, especially the ending. Harrowing. And I loved Eternal Sunshine too, though unfortunately I missed a bit due to noisy housemates at the time. :/