Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming V
Reel Recommendations: Cinema is Dreaming offers a historic journey through a century of cinema in pursuit of a fevered map of filmic dreams and dreamy films. Read on for the final instalment on our journey through the subconscious of cinema.
At this juncture, with recommendations piled high, it is time to say farewell. This series of Reel Recommendations draws to a close with one final recommendation, a mantra to repeat and follow above all others: KEEP GOING TO THE CINEMA! See as many films as you can in this increasingly endangered space in order to keep this space from disappearing. Cinemas across the country are closing; independent vision across curation, programming, artistic support and presentation has become a precarious dream, treated as a luxury in the continued economic neglect of art, as though a country’s culture should only ever be a begrudging afterthought or instrumentalised form of advertising. If you are in a position to be able to keep coming to the cinema, please do: you will be keeping it alive for future generations and for those who might not be able to at present.
ONWARDS fellow denizens of celluloid and digital, ONWARDS into the dream!
2000s
Werkmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky, 2001)
A Snake of June (Shin’ya Tsukamoto, 2002)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard, 2002)
Light is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004)
4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky, 2004)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)
Brand upon the Brain (Guy Maddin, 2006)
Blood Tea and String (Christiane Cegavske, 2006)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
Slow Mirror (Buharov Brothers, 2007)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Un Lac (Philippe Grandrieux, 2008)
2010s
Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Katho Upanishad (Ashish Avikunthak, 2011)
Boro in the Box (Bertrand Mandico, 2011)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2015)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, 2015)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski, 2015)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2015)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 2015)
Lek and the Dogs (Andrew Kötting, 2017)
November (Rainer Sarnet, 2017)
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)
The Wolf House (Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña, 2018)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)
Liberté (Albert Serra, 2019)
