David Lynch has been charged with making incomprehensible films. In fact, they make perfect sense, but not necessarily to us. An exemplary scene in "Fire Walk with Me" (1992) shows this: Two investigators are to receive their assignment from a very odd-looking woman named Lil. What they receive from

Anxiety, Dreamy, Enigmatic, Hallucinatory, Perverse, Quirky, Surreal, Surrealist film

Hans Richter's breakthrough studies of movement made the artistic leap between abstract painting and abstract film. A major figure in the development of Expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, Constructivism, and Surrealism, Richter was the creator (along with Viking Eggeling) of the Abstract Cinema -- the sp

Dada, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Representational, Surreal, Surrealist film

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,

Death, Excessive, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Perverse, Profane, Queer, Rebel, Sensual, Tragic, Visceral

Trained in philosophy at Harvard under Stanley Cavell before the cinema at AFI, Malick’s slim oeuvre foregrounds this inheritance: each of his four features to date is a period piece of American history; each trains an eye on the natural world (and its relationship with humans and human technologie

Atmospheric, Beautiful , Chance, Citational, Contemplative, Dreamy, Ebullient, Elegant, Event, Feminine, Figurative, Fleeting, Flux, Hypnotic, Illusive, Joyful, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Polychromatic, Primal, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Silence, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Tragic, Tranquil, Violent, Visceral