by JackRiddler » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:17 am
The myth machine! Our awesome luck to go everywhere, experience everything, be everyone without ever leaving home!
A list that would differ by the day, these are movies that stayed with me since first viewing, some because I'm a sap. The first two I always mention!
Koyanisqatsi
Blade Runner
Mona Lisa
Barry Lyndon (& add whole Kubrick oeuvre from Paths of Glory & Dr. Strangelove forward)
Mean Streets (& add large chunks of Scorcese oeuvre, high point Goodfellas)
The Third Man
The Battle of Algiers
Z
Pi (& Requiem for a Dream & The Wrestler)
Vagabonde
That's 10. Then I cheated and looked at the past & present netflix queue to see, but most of these I mention because they knocked me over after having seen them first-run or in revivals long ago, often twice. Some sort of embarrassing in retrospect. (Betty Blue, the boy-fantasy wish girlfriend!)
Kings and Queen
Blue Velvet
The Brother from Another Planet
Oldboy
Atlantic City
Zardoz
Festen (The Celebration, Dogma No. 1)
Sleep Dealer
District 9
Persepolis
Happiness
Orlando
They Live
Velvet Goldmine
Fight Club
Liquid Sky
Nashville & The Player
Farewell My Concubine
Blow Up
Rope & Strangers On a Train
Alice (Czech version)
M
Wall Street & JFK
Do the Right Thing (& Malcolm X)
Betty Blue
Chinatown
Hero & House of Flying Daggers, the masterpieces of High Wire Fu
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Weekend
Casablanca
Bartolomeusnacht
The Counterfeiters
Home
Il Divo
The Graduate
Midnight Cowboy
Ulp! Empire Strikes Back sure had me at the time.
And now a selection of the post-Bush documentary wave, the first three always come spontaneously to mind as seminal:
The Corporation
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Why We Fight
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron)
Our Brand Is Crisis
9/11: Press for Truth
Hijacking Catastrophe
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Katrina, Spike Lee)
Bowling for Columbine
Control Room
My Country, My Country (Iraq)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
The Road to Guantanamo
The End of Suburbia
The Fog of War
American Drug War
Who Killed the Electric Car
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I am by virtue of its might divine,
The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
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