100 FILMS THAT MAKE ME WANT TO BE A BETTER MAN: Cinematic Parables
By: Joriah Goad
These are the films that gnash; the films that bare my soft pink core.
100 films that taught me everything I know…
And the LITERATURE:
NON-FICTION
The Myth of the Eternal Return :: Mircea Eliade
Divine Horsemen :: Maya Deren
Manifestoes of Surrealism :: Andre Breton
The Theater and Its Double :: Antonin Artaud
Film as a Subversive Art :: Amos Vogel
Surrealism :: Julien Levy
The Interpretation of Dreams :: Sigmund Freud
Rules for Radicals :: Saul D. Alinsky
The Rebel :: Albert Camus
The Perennial Philosophy :: Aldous Huxley
Four Quartets :: T.S. Eliot
Concerning the Spiritual in Art :: Wassily Kandinsky
The True Believer :: Eric Hoffer
The Life Divine :: Sri Aurobindo
The Synthesis of Yoga :: Sri Aurobindo
Savitri :: Sri Aurobindo
Inner Paths to Outer Space :: Rick Strassman, and others
Food of the Gods :: Terrence McKenna
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions :: Eliade Mircea
Gitanjali :: Rabindranath Tagore
The Phenomenon of Man :: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
FICTION
The Flowers of Evil :: Charles Baudelaire
With Deer :: Aese Berg
Duino Elegies :: Rainer Maria Rilke
Straw for the Fire :: Theodore Roethke
The Malady of Death :: Marguerite Duras
Les Chants De Maldoror :: Comte de Lautreamont
The Book of Disquiet :: Fernando Pessoa
The Lords and the New Creatures :: Jim Morrison
Tropic of Cancer :: Henry Miller
Naked Lunch :: William S. Burroughs
The Invention of Morel :: Adolfo Bioy Casares
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01Kim Ki-young
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02Shûji Terayama
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03Pedro Costa
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04John Cassavetes
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05Allan King
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06Raúl Ruiz
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07Francis Ford Coppola
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08Glauber Rocha
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09Teinosuke Kinugasa
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10Carmelo Bene
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11Djibril Diop Mambéty
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12Wojciech Has
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13Dušan Makavejev
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14Jaromil Jireš
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15Karel Zeman
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16Juraj Jakubisko
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17René Laloux
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18Ernst Lubitsch
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19Shûji Terayama
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20Forugh Farrokhzad
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21Juraj Herz
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22Frederick Wiseman
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23Andrzej Żuławski
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24Emir Kusturica
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25Terrence Malick
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26John Cassavetes
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27Alejandro Jodorowsky
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28Andrzej Żuławski
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29Charlie Kaufman
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30Woody Allen
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31Tai Katô
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32Marcel Camus
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33Andrei Tarkovsky
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34Nikos Nikolaidis
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35Alejandro Jodorowsky
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36Robert Bresson
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37Kazuo Hara
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38Stuart Rosenberg
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39Kôji Wakamatsu
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40Hiroshi Teshigahara
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41Kazuhiko Hasegawa
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42Albert Maysles
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43Martin Scorsese
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44Luis Buñuel
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45Chantal Akerman
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46Akio Jissoji
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47Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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48Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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49Hiroshi Teshigahara
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50Krzysztof Kieślowski
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51Abbas Kiarostami
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52Bae Yong-Kyun
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53Nagisa Ôshima
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54Věra Chytilová
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55Kim Ki-young
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56Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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57Andrzej Wajda
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58Guy Maddin
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59Dušan Makavejev
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60Jack Clayton
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61Shûji Terayama
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62Béla Tarr
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63Jacques Demy
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64Masaki Kobayashi
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65Jacques Rivette
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66Jim Jarmusch
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67Pedro Costa
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68Stanley Kubrick
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69John Cassavetes
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70Marco Bellocchio
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71Sergei Parajanov
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72Nagisa Ôshima
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73Allan King
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74Jiří Menzel
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75Robert Bresson
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76Shûji Terayama
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77Shôhei Imamura
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78Federico Fellini
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79Jean-Luc Godard
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80Nagisa Ôshima
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81François Truffaut
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82Wim Wenders
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83Satyajit Ray
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84Víctor Erice
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85Theodoros Angelopoulos
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86Mike Leigh
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87Louis Malle
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88Éric Rohmer
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89Nagisa Ôshima
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90Ridley Scott
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91Seijun Suzuki
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92Ingmar Bergman
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93Robert Bresson
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94William A. Wellman
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95Jean-Jacques Beineix
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96Wim Wenders
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97Ingmar Bergman
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98Peter Greenaway
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99Robert Altman
