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Post by spiderwort on May 9, 2018 12:57:22 GMT
Dream sequences are often among the most interesting and most cinematic elements of any film. They come in all sizes and shapes, of course, but many are often in a more surrealistic vein. Those are generally the most memorable for me, especially if they're not what we think of as real "nightmares." There are several truly remarkable surrealistic dream sequences in Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker (1962), for example. I've seen this film several times over many decades and always marvel at those sequences and their capacity to advance the narrative in multiple layers with visual flairs of long dissolves, superimpositions, jump cuts, and grainy shots that pay homage to everything from early Buñuel to the Brady Civil War photos and the early films from the great silent filmmakers - all the while re-configuring them to meet the needs of its particular story. The way sound is used in these sequences to enhance their power and haunting beauty is also amazing.
Another of the most memorable for me is the extraordinary dream sequence in the opening of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957). It's also surrealistic, though less poetic than the dreams in The Miracle Worker, but it's still haunting.
Your thoughts on this subject, suggestions for viewing?
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Post by OldAussie on May 9, 2018 13:06:40 GMT
Spellbound immediately springs to mind. Or is hypnosis different to dreaming.
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Post by mattgarth on May 9, 2018 13:19:11 GMT
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944) is practically all one big dream sequence!
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Post by Aj_June on May 9, 2018 13:28:13 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on May 9, 2018 13:28:15 GMT
The Wizard of Oz?
Freud
The Big Lebowski
The sheriff tells of a dream at the end of No Country for Old Men
Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray
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Post by jervistetch on May 9, 2018 15:27:14 GMT
At the risk of spoiling it for anyone who hasn't seen it I'll just say MULHOLLAND DRIVE.
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Post by bravomailer on May 9, 2018 16:08:14 GMT
Yossarian has a dream after being stabbed. Not sure if any of the scenes with Snowden are dreams.
Dreamscape
Brazil
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Post by jervistetch on May 9, 2018 16:22:02 GMT
The dream in PAPILLON always weirds me out.
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Post by mattgarth on May 9, 2018 16:38:35 GMT
Scotty Ferguson keeps awakening in panic from haunting nightmares in VERTIGO.
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Post by teleadm on May 9, 2018 18:20:41 GMT
The Wizard of Oz 1939, nearly the whole movie is a dream.
Father of the Bride 1950, Spencer Tracy and a very soft floor.
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Post by vegalyra on May 9, 2018 18:54:44 GMT
I've mentioned this film a few times in some other threads, but An American Hippie in Israel (The Hitch Hiker) has a very funky dream sequence.
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 9, 2018 21:37:58 GMT
Shock Corridor (1963) tells the fascinating story of Johnny Barrett, a fame-obsessed, big city newspaper reporter who is fixated on winning the Pulitzer Prize. He hatches a daring plan, Barrett masquerades as a sexual deviant to gain entry to the local state mental hospital, mingling with the patients he hopes to crack an unsolved murder case, and write his prize-winning story... A unique multi faceted electrifying tabloid thriller, maverick director Samuel Fuller uses the mental hospital as a dark metaphor for Sixties America. Dream sequences are creatively used... Cathy (Constance Towers) sings, "Johnny Johnny...all the men want me, Johnny, but I want you, and you want the Pulitzer Prize"...
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Post by bravomailer on May 9, 2018 21:47:08 GMT
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)?
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Post by koskiewicz on May 9, 2018 22:01:50 GMT
...I will go out on a limb, but IMHO, the entire film, "Once Upon A Time in America" is an opium dream from beginning to end. Noodles (DeNiro) is the opium dreamer...
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on May 9, 2018 22:56:47 GMT
I'm not sure if this counts as a 'dream' sequence, but the cave scene in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) had quite the impact when I first saw it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 9, 2018 23:16:20 GMT
The Nightmare on Elm Street series (never seen any of them) are dream based
OT because on tv but these come to mind : Roseanne - the final season Dallas - that whole year before the "shower" Medium - entire series
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Post by vegalyra on May 9, 2018 23:48:30 GMT
The Nightmare on Elm Street series (never seen any of them) are dream based OT because on tv but these come to mind : Roseanne - the final season Dallas - that whole year before the "shower" Medium - entire series I forgot about Dallas. My parents didn't really watch Dallas but I remember my Aunt was plenty mad about that... I think she quit watching it after that.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 9, 2018 23:52:43 GMT
I hope I'm not cheating, as it's not a literal dream sequence, but it comes as close to playing like one as any overtly portrayed as being so: the ballet of The Red Shoes (1948).
Prima ballerina Vicky is living her dream, dancing the lead role in a Lermontov ballet. The ballet itself is staged as an idyllic fantasy that becomes a nightmare as enchanted shoes force the character, Karen, to dance relentlessly, and images from Vicky's own subconscious, reflecting her inner turmoil over the conflict between the demands of the composer Julian (love and personal satisfaction) and producer Lermontov (art and career) creep into its depiction. Like many a phantasmagoric Busby Berkeley number that could never be contained within a proscenium, inexplicable changes of locale take place, incongruous but meaningful images emerge from nowhere and a sense of what I'd call "momentum of discontinuity" takes over, just as in many dreams experienced by me and, I'd imagine, most others.
In the context of the story, it all takes place on a stage before an audience of paying customers, but on screen, directors Powell and Pressburger, along with cinematographer Jack Cardiff, employ all the cinematic tools at their disposal to transport the viewer into Karen's - and Vicky's - living dream turned nightmare.
My apologies for the washed-out video, which only hints at the vivid imagery of Cardiff's stunning cinematography.
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Post by bravomailer on May 9, 2018 23:55:48 GMT
The Nightmare on Elm Street series (never seen any of them) are dream based OT because on tv but these come to mind : Roseanne - the final season Dallas - that whole year before the "shower" Medium - entire series I forgot about Dallas. My parents didn't really watch Dallas but I remember my Aunt was plenty mad about that... I think she quit watching it after that. Letterman said we needed a Commissioner of Television who'd step in and say, "No, you can't do that!"
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Post by london777 on May 10, 2018 0:30:03 GMT
The Wizard of Oz 1939, nearly the whole movie is a dream. That's what they want you to think!
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