Which film director makes the weirdest, strangest movies?

Bunuel made Andalusian Dog, right?

Tarantino's work has a quirky surreal quality which grabs me like From Dusk til Dawn and Inglourious Basterds

Yeppers. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/combined

Then I'll go with the donkey eyeball-slicin' master.

Guy Maddin's "The Saddest Music in the World" is a seriously weird movie. I encourage everyone to see it.

I give my vote to Tim Burton.

Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice....

Ooh, hang on.....who did Donny Darko?

It's one of my favorite musicals of all time. Blessed be Isabella Rossilini!


Prosthetic legs made out of oversized sealed beer mugs! The rest of his movies are just as weird. Especially his ... alleged memoir based documentaries.

This wacky Canadian, Guy Maddin, got my vote in the IMDb poll.

A dude named Richard Kelly. Me? I hated Donnie Darko. Tried too hard and not convincingly about its attempt to depict schizophrenia.

I've got to pit David Lynch at the top of the heap. His films are beautifully filmed, he whips you back and forth, then you try to figure out what it all means. I think it's David Lynch's joke on the world, as viewers rack their brains looking for what it all means, Lynch is rolling around on the floor cackling that he just pulled off another good one.

I only know Herzog though I've read about a batch of the others listed. I only saw Kasper Hauser, which I wouldn't call weird.
I did, though, see the trailer for Aguirre wrath of god something like seventeen times at our local art theater (read, changing films often, often older). No way I'd volunteer for watching it. Synopsis's would do.


I see I might have fibbed, as I don't remember precisely which Kinski flicks I saw the trailers of. Still think it was Aguirre, but maybe some of the others.

Has to be Woody Allen.

Such a generous writer/director.

Whenever I watch his enormous oeuvre I think only of him.

All things considered, it's fairly easy to string together a bunch of arresting images and make them into a movie, as Bunuel and Dali did in Un Chien Andalou. Their genius was in being the first to do it. When they tried, in L'Age d'Or, to put a rudimentary story into the mix, however, they were a good deal less successful. The real trick, then, is to make a truly weird movie that still makes sense as a story. David Lynch came close with Eraserhead, as did Guy Maddin with The Saddest Music in the World. Not many other filmmakers have even made the effort.

Simply based on Melancholia, I'd have to say it's Lars von Trier. I found that film agonizingly strange, and disturbing, but I forced myself to sit through it.

I won't do that again...