Surreal cinema exists at the edges of logic, dream, and nightmare. It's an offshoot of a broader artistic movement that began after World War I, which focused on the expression of the unconscious.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a director, Denis Villeneuve has accomplished so much in a very narrow amount of time. From his humble beginnings as an indie ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

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 ...

Matthew Rankin’s second feature is something of an anomaly on this year’s Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film. For one thing, it takes place in a world that doesn’t actually exist, positing ...

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 ...

One of the most original, quirky and transfixing films in recent memory was OBEX, a surreal sci-fi fantasy written, directed and starring Albert Birney and released via Oscilloscope, the indie film ...

Surrealism is pretty well debased these days. Lincoln and a beaver are shilling for a big pharmaceutical company, selling sleeping pills and warning an insomniac nation, "Your dreams miss you." A ...

Lynch imbued so much dream logic into his movies and TV shows nearly his entire body of work qualifies for this list. But, for the sake of brevity, we’ve picked just ten of his most surreal moments.