Dr. Caligari and Until the End of the World have only come out on VHS AND are out of print...so you have to chase them down via ebay, etc. Liquid Sky has been released on DVD. A Place like Premiere Video on Mockingbird might have all of these.

I have Wing's of Desire on DVD and VHS, the soundtrack on CD, two poster prints...I love, love, love that movie. Favorite all time. It's related to some not some good movies though...the sequel "Far Away, So Close" is not so great and Wings of Desire had a US remake that I have not bothered to see, "City of Angels" in 1998.

The Nick Cave and the Crime and the City Solution stuff on the Wings of Desire soundtrack is incredible! From Her to Enternity...The Carny...great music

I only saw Until the End of the World the one time at the theater. I may have been biased by being deep in the middle of a in love with everything Wim Wenders phase :D still I need to see it again...

"black & white surrealist cowboy space movie" uh...heck yeah!

I'm with you guys lets do a showing! Hell yes!

I've been search for The Devil's Backbone for awhile now. I had forgotten the name of the movie. We should watch that sometime.

This thread got derailed a little so I thought I would bring it back....

Romantic Comedies (normally this category makes me shudder but):
The Price of Milk: a super quirky movie from New Zealand that makes you think anything can happen. Very much a fairy tale in the Brother's Grimm style.

Animation:
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb- A totally surreal stop motion movie that just came out onto DVD within the past couple of years. It came out in the early 90s, but it's some of the neatest stop-motion (if you like that sort of thing, and really really do). Plus it's just plain fucked up weird. So I'm sure that aspect will appeal to many of you.

Waking Life- A texas homeboy's film. If you haven't seen it, please do. It just might elucidate for you why I have the name "oneiro". The rotoscope is truly amazing. Very trippy in it's own right, and you don't even need drugs to appreciate this said trippiness. A Scanner Darkly isn't too bad either.

Science Fiction:
2001- Right before I left Seattle I saw this movie in the theatre the way it was meant to be scene it true cinerama. HOLY FU©K it was amazing. Unfortunately there are only 2 cineramas in existence anymore, but if you get a chance to see this on a big @$$ TV jump at it! If you can see it in HD/Blu-Ray.... EVEN BETTER!

Brazil- Terry Gilliam at his finest. The first time I saw this movie was on TV at 3 in the morning when I was in high school. It's one of my top favorite films ever. Quirky, odd, surreal, dystopian, and a love story tangled in as well. If you have a chance to see the criterion collection of this you can see all three versions of the film. His cut, the european cut, and the US cut. FUN FUN FUN

Best all around picture you can shake a stick at:

The City of Lost Children- A spectacularly beautiful film. It's completely embedded in a fantasy world, but the texture is amazing. It's pure entertainment, but has a truly unconventional idea of love that it presents in a very light fashion. Unconventional in the same way that "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is unconventional.

Also by the same creative team that brought you The City of Lost Children:

Delicatessen- This is another visually stunning surreal little film. Is there a genre for horror comedy? If there is, this film would definitely qualify. It's not funny in the way that friday the 13th is funny... it's more of a surreal and strange set of events taking place in a horrific setting, but you don't really focus on the horror aspect as it is not in the foreground of the film.

okay that's it for now.

Load up your Netflix/Blockbuster queues or run out and see these now!!!

recommendingly,
m.e

what are you still doing here?!?! I said go rent the above films NOW!!!! Sheesh you guys can be stubborn.

City of God is my favorite film made in this century so far. I have a copy and would be down for that one.