Have you ever watched anything and thought the world it presented didn't exist in reality, but also you had no idea how to describe where it actually exists? That's how I feel about surrealism in film ...

An eight-minute experimental short from Atelier Stark, observed from the inside. Working the interior where perception and ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

If Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel hadn’t choked Salvador Dalí’s ladyfriend at that dinner party, film history would have played out differently. But hey, these things happen. The throttling was, quite ...

Jim Jarmusch is known for his deadpan films that feature oddball characters and ask big existential questions. Among his best-known works in this vein are Stranger than Paradise (1984), a ...

The late, great David Lynch. Like all great surrealists, there’s absolutely no one who has as distinct a creative vision as David Lynch. One of the most popular surreal artists in mainstream pop ...

In 1937, Salvador Dalí conceived of a movie that would star the Marx Brothers against a bizarre, romantic dreamscape filled with animals and fire. But when the Spanish artist brought his drawings and ...

Craig Jones is a freelance film features writer for Collider. He began his freelancing career writing on rock and alternative music for fanzines, before winning a job as a gig reviewer for a regional ...

“The Possessed,” the third feature film from Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević and her English-language debut, has been greenlit and is set to shoot in Spain at the start of 2026. The project, ...

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