Movies where the score... ~ carries a lot of the weight...in a good way. ~ is forefront and obtrusive--makes its…

films that are paradoxically both ruminative and bombastic.

and/or

films that have very composed shots, but contain chaos.

and/or

films…

movement within frame is highly choreographed...

Films where regularly something interesting is happening in every distance in the frame.

Movies with a sharp turn that derails the expected direction, shifts the tone or genre, or escalates disproportionately to the…

NOT an exhaustive list, just a SMALL MIXTAPE of some my personal favorites...

Not just weird/surreal/absurd/magical realist   cinema 

Something  that feels feels tied to scifi/horror/fantasy genre, but closer to the origins of those…

strange and inexplicable in the way real life and real people are...