Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming III
Our Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming series offers a historic journey through a century of cinema in pursuit of a fevered map of filmic dreams and dreamy films.
Imagine yourself striding through the oneiric ages: a cinematic sleepwalker, dreaming with eyes wide open. Part 3 of ‘Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming’ is here to guide you.
1950s
Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950)

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953)

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati, 1953)

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954)

Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

Water Mirror of Granada (José Val del Omer, 1955)

All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)

Dementia (John Parker, 1955)

Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Invention for Destruction (Karel Zeman, 1958)

Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage, 1958)

The Ghost of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

1960s
Emotion (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1960)

Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1961-64)

Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)

Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)

Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963)

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965)

Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)

Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

Palace of Pleasure (John Hofsess, 1966)

Le Révélateur (Philippe Garrel, 1968)

Fando y Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1968)

The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)

