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Hello Bernd,maybe too obvious, but Kurosawa's Rashômon<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/> or Bacon's The I Don't Care Girl <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045898/> might match with your interest. Good luck, Miklos 2009/2/13 Bernd Leiendecker <[log in to unmask]> > Hello everyone, > > I am working on a PhD-project about the history of unreliable narration in > film for which I need as many films that feature unreliable narration as I > can find. > > According to the definition I use, a viewer naturalises specific > inconsistencies within a film by assuming that parts of it are unreliably > narrated - this means that parts of the film did not present the truth about > the fictional world. As a result of this definition, unreliable narration is > always assumed to be intentional, resolvable, unambigously determinable and > only retroactively identifyable. The presence of a personal narrator is > possible, but not necessary. > > I already have about 100 films that are relevant for my project. I have > decided to limit my field of research to films that were released until > 2000. > > In particular, I'm looking for films that fit one of the following > categories: > > - parts of the film are revealed to be just a dream afterwards > > e.g.: Rêve et réalité (F 1901), The Avenging Conscience (USA 1914), The > Woman in the Window (USA 1944), Dead of Night (GB 1945), Alice in > Wonderland (USA 1951), Carrie (USA 1976), Living in Oblivion (USA 1995), > Out of Sight (USA 1998), Susan's Plan (USA 1998) > > > > - parts of the film are revealed to be only a fantasy or > hallucination afterwards > > e.g.: Possessed (USA 1947), Mirage (USA 1965), Don't Look Now (GB 1973), > Track 29 (GB 1988), Sidekicks (USA 1992), Analyze This (USA 1999), Sous le > sable (F 2000) > > > > - a flashback is revealed to have represented a lie afterwards > > e.g.: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (D 1920), Crossfire (USA 1947), Stage > Fright (GB 1950), Mortal Thoughts (USA 1991), The Usual Suspects (USA1995), Yyou're Dead (GB 1999), Memento (USA 2000) > > > > - a character turns out to be either dead or dying > > e.g.: Carnival of Souls (USA 1962), Jacob's Ladder (USA 1990), Campfire > Tales (USA 1997), Lulu on the Brisge (USA 1998), The Sixth Sense (USA1999) > > > > - two seemingly separate characters turn out to be the same person > > e.g.: Psycho (USA 1960), Angel Heart (USA 1987), Shattered (USA 1991), > Fight Club (USA 1999) > > > > - parts of the film are revealed to be a film or a play within the > film afterwards > > e.g.: To Be or Not to Be (USA 1942), The Last Movie (USA 1971), La nuit > américaine (F 1973), Charlie's Angels (USA 2000), Code: inconnu (F / D / ROM > 2000) > > > > - the film uses the aesthetics of a documentary, but turns out to > be entirely fictional; it does not give away its fictional nature early by > portraying ridicoulus or completely unbelievable events > > e.g.: David Holzman's Diary (USA 1967), No Lies… (USA 1974), Forbidden > Quest (NL 1993), Forgotten Silver (NZL 1995), The Last Broadcast (USA1998), Citizen Cam (F / ISL 1999) > > > > - parts of the film are "taken back" and replaced by a different > version of the events > > e.g.: Wayne's World (USA 1992), Wayne's World 2 (USA 1993) > > > > - parts of the film are revealed afterwards to have taken place in > a vurtual reality instead of the actual fictional world > > e.g.: Abre los ojos (E / F / I 1997), eXistenZ (CAN / GB 1999), The > Thirteenth Floor (D / USA 1999), The Matrix (USA 1999) > > > > If you know any film that is not newer than 2000 and fits one of the > categories above or should be considered unreliably narrated even though it > does not fit one of the mentioned categories, please send me an e-mail. > > > Bernd Leiendecker > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please > always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send > the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: > [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy online: > http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] ** -- Miklos Kiss, Ph.D. Lecturer in Film Studies University of Groningen Oude Boteringestraat 23 9712 GC Groningen The Netherlands +31 (0)50 363 7269 * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **