previewed and approved...
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Notes http://www.imdb.com/ |
| Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 |
| The Fall | Beautiful veneer. Story within the story is cinematic spectacle. Characters are charming manikins. (js) | |
| City of God | Katia Lund and Fernando Meirelles | 2002. Life in a self-governing section of Rio de Janeiro. Documentary included. (js) |
| City of Men | Fernando Meirelles | Sequel to City of God. More personal, moral-of-the-story is more apparent but not so thick as to be moralistic. (js) |
| Seven Beauties | WWII | |
| Good Bye Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | 2003 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Jonathan Miller | 1966 |
| Old Boy | Chan-wook Park Kar Wai Wong | |
| In the Mood For Love | ||
| Songs from the second floor | Roy Andersson | 2000 |
| Lilja 4-ever | Lukas Moodysson. | (2002) If this doesn't break your heart, get a new one. (js) |
| Les Fiancés Du Pont Mac Donald | Agnès Varda | 1961 |
| Contempt | Godard | 1963 |
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin | Very unusual movie! 2003 |
| Die Innere Sicherheit | Christian Petzold | 2000 |
| Tokyo Story | ||
| 12 monkeys | ||
| chein adalou | ||
| run lola run | ||
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Work of art. (js) |
| blow up | ||
| gods and monsters | ||
| the straight story | ||
| secrets and lies | ||
| sex, lies, and videotape | ||
| The Bicycle Thief | Masterpiece. Can't help it! It's the best word. (js) | |
| Apocalypse Now | Worse than the war itself? (js) | |
| Character | Dutch | |
| hate | French | |
| Modern Times . | Charlie Chaplin | |
| sherlock, jr. | ||
| spun | ||
| bladerunner | ||
| Buffalo '66 | 1998 | |
| Basquiat | ||
| the virgin suicides | from the novel by Eugenides (js) | |
| jackie brown | ||
| the fisher king | ||
| on the waterfront | ||
| my beautiful launderette | ||
| the adventures of baron von munchausun | Terry Gilliam | |
| boogie nights | ||
| Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | |
| Wild Strawberries | Ingrid Bergman | |
| mystery train | ||
| the boondock saints | Righteous vigilantes on the prowl. | |
| the game | ||
| tuvalu | ||
| Dark City | Like the Matrix. What if everything you believed in were utterly false? (js) | |
| the godfather | ||
| scarface | ||
| requiem for a dream | ||
| pi | ||
| drugstore cowboy | ||
| the bad seed | ||
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Mystery Train
Dead Man: by Jim Jarmusch |
Jim Jarmusch | |
| Nights of Cabiria | Enrico Fellini. | Julliette Massini!!! |
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater | |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam. | Giant ironies. Each time you see it more detail surfaces. Classic 1984-style story told very, very well. Morbidly funny (js) |
| The 400 Blows | Truffaut | |
| Delicatessen | Jeanne Pierre-Jeunet | Most unusual movie! |
| Trainspotting | ||
| City of Lost Children | Jeanne Pierre-Jeunet | |
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Ghost World |
Terry Zwigoff | |
| Krumm | Terry Zwigoff | |
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heavenly creatures |
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| Weekend |
Goddard | |
| Pusher, Pusher 2, Pusher 3 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Beneath the thick layer of brutality and vulgarity, this crime-trilogy is about existential angst. Frankie in Pusher 1 is bound by honor and debt. Tonny in Pusher 2, recently graduated from the University of Crime (prison), expects to take his place in his crime-family. Milo the arch-criminal in Pusher 3 confronts his disintegration. (js) |
| Barton Fink | Coen Bros. | |
| Fargo | Coen Bros. | |
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Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick | |
| Resevoir Dogs | Tarentino | |
| The Shining | Kubrick | |
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | |
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Down by Law |
Jim Jarmusch |
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Stranger than Paradise |
Jim Jarmusch |
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Crumm |
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Eraserhead |
David Lynch |
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Blue Velvet |
David Lynch |
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Modern times |
Chaplin |
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| Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | Sort of an unsentimental take-off on the Hollywood western. Great score by Neil Young, looks like a daguerrotype! |
| City of Lost Children | Jeanne Pierre-Jeunet | One of my all-time favorites and my #1 favorite for visuals- a twisted, well-acted fairy tale |
| Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | Great acting from Ewan (all his other movies SUCK) in this completely fantastic, disturbing movie. Music is used very well in this film. |
| The 400 Blows | Truffaut | Truffaut's best film. Another unsentimental portrait of a 12-yr old boy dealing with a society that doesn't care about him. |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam | |
| Waking Life | richard linklater | Unique animation that melts into different styles. A young man wanders around and meets people who give him their various opinions on philosophy and life. A lot of people hate this movie because it's pretentious, but I think it has a lot to say. |
| Nights of Cabiria | Enrico Fellini | 8 1/2 goes on for a really, really long time- see this instead, as it's much more coherent. Giulietta Masina is brilliant as Cabiria. |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | Psychological horror film about a woman who is descending into madness. Weird that rape came up so many times in Polanski's films and then he raped a young girl. Maybe he thought the rules didn't apply to him. |
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | another psychological horror film from Polanksi about a woman who is convinced she's going crazy. Great build-up of suspense, while lacking the typical "suspenseful" music and shadowy scenes. Ruth Gordon is especially great as the horrifyingly bothersome neighbor. |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Proof that horror movies don't have to be bad- more psychological/descending into madness stories! |
| Reservoir Dogs | Quenten Tarentino | My favorite Tarentino film- stylish, well-acted, bloody. I love Steve Buscemi. |
| Weekend | Godard | Mod Alice and Wonderland-like fantasy. |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | Film about the search for a soulmate- beautifully shot and acted with great musical numbers |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | stylish black comedy about an uncool girl living in suburbia who wants nothing more than to be liked by her boring parents and have her insufferable ballerina sister dead. Great acting from Heather Matarazzo and Brandon sexton Jr. |
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Blue Angel (German version)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Revanche
Exterminating Angels
Los Bastardos (
Diabolique
The Sheltering Sky (from Paul Bowles novel)
Vidas Secas (
Of Human Bondage (Bette Davis, Leslie Howard)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
King Lear (James Earl Jones, Raul Julia)
The Castle (Kafka’s novel)
High and Low (Kirosawa)
Lost Highway (
Wild at Heart (
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
Man From London (Bela Tarr)
Virgil Bliss
Laws of Gravity
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)