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Man On Fire
Syriana
Equilibrium
And for some solid Australian cinema: Mystery Road
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They Live. I stumbled across it on TV while exhausted at 2 am one night and it had me locked in the whole time.
I used this movie as the basis for at least three school assignments in high school. Brilliant.
Children of Men.
Full Metal Jacket.
Spirited Away. In my opinion the most Miyazaki movie. It's also just amazing. I've probably seen it a dozen times now.
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Cloud Atlas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tora Tora Tora!
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Gone with the Wind
I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.
My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.
On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.
Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.
I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.
For the few people who didn't already watch it, and the best movie of all time :
Mad Max: Fury road (2015 ) by Miller .
This is what film story telling is about: having an entire weird universe told through visual medium. The 1st half hour has mad max gagged and incapable of talking, and it is amazing. Preferably on big screen.
A gem from the past:
Taboo(1999), by Nagisa Ôshima,
a samurai movie with hint of homosexuality. and an ending that can only be understood by paying close attention to the sound off screen.
A classic:
Seven samurai(1954), Kurosawa.
Just enjoy the black and white shot , and immerse in old Japanese culture
Natural Born Killers
Many good ones were already mentioned
But from memory:
- The snatch
- The big Lebowsky
- Clerks
- American Psycho
- 2001 a space odissey
- Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
- Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
- Full metal jacket
- The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
- Fight club
- Alien
- The Truman show
- In the mouth of madness
- They live
- The terminator (first 2)
- Animal house
- the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
- Once upon a time in America
- pulp fiction
- reservoir dogs
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Movies made outside of the US. United-statesians underestimate too much on other countries' productions. There's many great movies made outside of Hollywood that you can find if you search.
A suggestion that I can give is Netflix's Brazilian film Just Another Christmas, where a guy who hates Christmas gets on a time curse and he keeps waking up on each year's next Christmas eve, his life keeps changing before his eyes and at the end he learns a valuable lesson. I've seen it being compared to Click, not sure though.
The Matrix
If you want to add non English movies to the list, then I have two to suggest:
- Children of Heaven
- Cinema Paradiso
I'll throw RRR onto the international pile since it's the kinda film that feels like the greatest movie ever while you're watching it.
I find it inconceivable that no one has mentioned 'The Princess Bride' yet.
It's immaterial, it is automatically disqualified from the list because we've all already seen it multiple times.
That word... I think it means exactly what you think it means.
Gladiator extended edition. No other movie matters now. Tis a masterpiece
Some you need to see to get the references:
- Soylent green
- 1984 (or read the book of course)
- Inception
- Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino
Food for thought:
- Free Rainer
For something (more) crazy:
- The Holy Mountain
"12 Angry Men" (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.
The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels "small". The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.
In the beginning of 12 Angry Men everything is shot from above eye-level with wide-angle lenses, giving everything the feel of more space, but as the film progresses it transitions to tighter shots with telephoto lenses from lower angles. The film gives the viewer more and more of a subconscious sense of tension and claustrophobia as the story progresses.
At least one stage adaptation of the story gave a similar effect over the course of the show by slowly tightening the lighting and having the walls of the set physically move inward, too slow for the audience to take notice but enough to subtly affect the entire atmosphere and really drive that feeling home.
That's so neat; I'd never noticed that before. And the walls closing in on the stage adaptation is really clever
I've seen this movie 3 times, each viewing several years apart. Each viewing solidified this movie as my personal favorite, I would go in thinking I've already seen this, it can't have the same wow factor. Nope, I would end up loving it even more. Can't recommend this enough!
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The baby scene was a little weird but otherwise great movie
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Oh one more. Contagion. Made years and years before covid - pretty spot on tho.
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
The Prestige
Memento
The Shining
Gangs of New York
Aliens
The Machinist
Full Metal Jacket
Arrival
Mary and Max.
That's a great movie! I can't exactly remember the ending, though.
Predestination [2014]
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