Tag: surreal

• Cult Classics: Fantastic Planet

  

  Cult films seem to depict two worlds: a heightened, askew version of reality as we know it, and a bizarre reality that is barely recognizable. Of the former, previous entries like True Stories or personal favorite The Burbs seem to fall into that category, while the latter refers to otherworldly madness like David Lynch’s Eraserhead,…

  Mike Gray

  February 21, 2023

  culture, film, science fiction

  1973, animation, cult, cult classic, Fantastic Planet, film, Rene Leloux, Roland Topor, surreal

• Great TV: The Prisoner

  

  Who is Number 1? If you are Number 6 this is a serious question, since Number 6 asks Number 2 this at the opening of every episode of The Prisoner. First airing in Canada in 1967, this spy-sci fi-mystery-thriller was unlike anything ever seen before at the time. a sort of 1960s version of Twin…

  Mike Gray

  August 16, 2020

  culture, television

  cult classic, cult television, Great TV, influential, Patrick McGoohan, surreal, The Prisoner

• Cult Classics: Wild Palms

  

  The early 90’s was a watershed moment in American culture: the alternative was quickly becoming mainstream, and with it large corporate interests were starting to wonder if there wasn’t something to the weirder side of music and film that couldn’t make them some delicious money. After all, David Lynch broke through the mainstream and had…

  Mike Gray

  July 23, 2017

  culture, television

  1993, ABC, Brian Wagner, cult classic, miniseries, Oliver Stone, Scientology, surreal, television, weird, Wild Palms