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Oct. 21, 2022 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Little Ola’s Biscuits Free for a Year, Baldinucci’s Pizza for Lunch and Dinner, the Nido Is Open for Real, Dali’s Naked Feast for Surrealism’s Sake, Plenty of Booze for Toasting, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Oct. 19, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Feverbones’ Superhuman Surrealism

Experimental indie rock trio previews April LP

March 5, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Mystery of Rampo

"...the Japanese cinema. It recalls everything from the lyrical surrealism of Masaki Kobayashi to the delirious eroticism of Koji..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Johnny Suede

"...and Buñuel thrown in for good measure, for the surrealism in Johnny Suede echoes with the best that these..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

1917

World War I drama shows heroism in saving, not taking, lives

"...is poetic and tragic, dreamlike without the forced stoner surrealism that too often afflicts war dramas. It is instead..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

"Conner O'Leary: Requesting Entrance"

Surrealism is alive and well at Farewell Books, thanks to the art of Conner O'Leary

"...accurate sense, that is, following in the tradition of surrealism as an artistic movement, which has more specific aims..."

July 17, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Wrong

Quentin Dupieux, the director of Rubber, is back with another film brimming with encounters with the bizarre and surreal.

"...predicated on the idea that willful weirdness equals high surrealism. Having enjoyed Dupieux’s last film, Rubber (2010), I was..."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Holy Motors

Holy Motors; hot damn. This French firecracker is set to detonate.

"...contrast and accumulate while building a sense of total surrealism. All the while, the city of Paris crisply gleams...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

"...wistful melancholia, simmering eroticism, enjoyable dark humor, and flat-out surrealism. The theme of sexual knowledge as a source of..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Max, Mon Amour

"...us with nothing much but a vague sensation of surrealism that comes from seeing an affair between a woman..."

Sept. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Too Outrageous Animation

"...shine: the short but sweet Snake Theatre, the mesmerizing surrealism of Organ House, and even the infectiously stupid bad..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Clifford

"...Adventure, a film for kids with twisted satire and surrealism for adults, all about a goofy, goony kid character..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Waterland

"...the cinematic past and present are juxtaposed through omniscient surrealism, Crick literally takes his students on a stroll that..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

London Kills Me

"...To make matters worse, Kureishi sprinkles tidbits of oddball surrealism a la David Lynch throughout his film, which does..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Bloody Beautiful Illusions

Alejandro Jodorowsky, surrealism's topo sangre, on Truth, Beauty, and the Internet

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...and the very best of them are exercises in surrealism. Kinky's novels are a journey not down Raymond Chandler's..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

Smoking Causes Coughing

Rubber director's sentai spoof is weird, discursive magic

"...has evolved into a more interesting type of comic surrealism, infused with an easygoing adaptability. Whether it is finding..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Benedict Cumberbatch as the artist who invented the modern cat

"...before evolving into what now would be recognized as proto-surrealism, presaged the modern era of cat knickknacks, and the..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shithouse

Awkward college romance gets a timely, heartfelt revamp with this astonishing debut

"...of course, there's a soupcon of John Hughes' suburban surrealism and even Zach Braff's courageous belief that our flaws..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wild Goose Lake

Chinese noir stumbles over its own remarkable style

"...be wearing, particularly with the latter injection of everyday surrealism. A shootout in a zoo, followed by a trip..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The birds are back, with an added subversive twist

"...and a pirate, with its mixture of silliness and surrealism, kid-friendly comedy and complicated feelings, set the groundwork for..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Donnybrook

Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak

"...their best), but then it doesn't have the grisly surrealism of another backwoods cousin, 2016 Mississippi River revenge drama..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Super Troopers 2

Vermont's finest return, and this time they're Canadian.

"...maybe you just have Dada issues with Thirties-era black-and-white surrealism. No crime there; to each his/her own guffaws. The..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beguiled

A steamy and engrossing Civil War thriller

"...the use of natural candlelight adds both realism and surrealism to the proceedings. Shot with sultry, south of the..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...either you're on board with his aggressive brand of surrealism or you're not. Conventional narratives are not his brand,..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

The lovable gang from the animated TV show leaves Bikini Bottom to come ashore.

"...so eager to lob bit after bit of psychedelic surrealism at its audience, be they wee tykes or stoned..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Comedy

Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.

"...Movie, retaining the scatological flavor but none of the surrealism. (The only thing Alverson spares us, by contrast, is..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Will Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.

"...to be delicate, endearing, or completely over-the-top. Unafraid of surrealism or slapstick, he’ll clearly do anything for the joke..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Howl's Moving Castle

The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other films.

"...mysticism that echoes and multiplies the films’ pleasantly intoxicating surrealism. (For my money, 1988’s My Neighbor Totoro remains his..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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