Some other goodish dream movies:

*The Cell (I love this movie but the story is kinder crap)
*In Dreams
*The whole NIghtmare on Elm street series of course.
*Mulholland Drive (some might debate this…)

Tsutsui is the man; I feel like I can say that even before reading Paprika or the Salmonella stories. And Abre los ojos is indeed just Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise. I thought about that, but they’re both decent movies, and I like, in my mad lists, tracing the genealogies of para-culture (not how we dream, but how we look at ourselves, dreaming, on screen — which is a form of dreaming after all) in full, as best I can, in five minutes.

Yaddah yaddah. Maybe I’m just rationalizing my laziness in not researching more dream movies… It just occurred to me, after buying Paprika, how strong the am-I-dreaming/not-dreaming? genre is. Deep roots, a colorful wardrobe, many masks. But we return to these same questions: How do we know Tom Cruise isn’t just a butterfly, dreaming?

And Neil Gaiman has claimed in a recent interview that a Sandman movie ain’t never gonna happen nohow. He’s directing the “Death” movie last I heard though…