Theme: Gangster
1.Godfather
2 Godfather II
3.Godfather III
4.Goodfellas
5.Once upon a time in america
Theme: Family relationship
1.Autumn sonata
2.Cries and whispers
3.Life is beautiful
4.Murmur of the heart
5.The return
Theme: Films to help change your life (and maybe give you a good cry)
Nights of Cabiria
Umberto D.
City Lights
Wild Strawberries
The Elephant Man
Bonus: Grave of the Fireflies
Theme: Drugs and Destruction
Trainspotting
Requiem For A Dream
My Own Private Idaho
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Kids
City of God
Theme: Loneliness
Here are the movies featuring some of my favorite ‘lonely’ protagonists, as they search for that one thing…
All About Lily Chou-Chou
The 400 Blows
Chungking Express
Distant
Flight of the Red Baloon
The Ice Storm
Last Life in The Universe
Lost in Translation (This could be the quintessential Film for the Cinema of Loneliness, since it is largely about loneliness and its various forms and states)
Theme: Torture
1.) Epic Movie
2.) Epic Movie
3.) Epic Movie
4.) Epic Movie
5.) Epic Movie
6.) Epic Movie
In between showings audience members will be subjected to select excerpts from Epic Movie and Epic Movie.
Theme: Retro-Teen
1. Clueless
2. Pump up the Volume
3. Breakfast club
4. Carrie
5. Hackers
(and yes, early 90’s qualifies as retro)
Theme: Transformation
1. Noi: The Albino
2. The Edukators
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. Waking Life
5. Motorcycle Diaries
6. Trois Couleurs: Bleu
7. Trois Couleurs: Red
8. Sex and Lucia
9. Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas
10. The Fountain
Seems like I like putting these movies on when I feel like I’m changing between eras of my life – fits the mood, I suppose.
Theme: Revenge
1. The Virgin Spring
2. Friday the 13th
3. Ms. 45
4. I Spit on your Grave
5. Thriller: They Call Her One Eye
6. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
7. Medea – Lars Von Trier
8. Irreversible
Loss of Innocence
1. Xiu Xiu the Sent Down Girl
2. A Real Young Girl
3. Grave of the Fireflies
4. Murmur of the Heart
5. Ivan’s Childhood
6. The Devil’s Backbone
Theme: You’re Watching A Film, You Know.
Trans-Europ Express [Robbe-Grillet, 1966]
F For Fake [Welles, 1975]
My Winnipeg [Maddin, 2008]
Persona [Bergman, 1966]
Videodrome [Cronenberg, 1983]
ANTI VALENTINE’S DAY
1) ERASERHEAD (LYNCH, 1977)
2) THE FOURTH MAN (VERHOEVEN, 1983)
3) THE FLY (CRONENBERG, 1986)
4) NOW VOYAGER (RAPPER, 1942)
5) BETTY BLUE (BEINEIX, 1986)
6) CRIMES OF PASSION (RUSSELL, 1984)
COMIC BOOK HEROES
1) COMMANDO (LESTER, 1985)
2) BARBARELLA (VADIM, 1968)
3) FLASH GORDON (HODGES, 1980)
4) DIABOLIK (BAVA, 1968)
5) FRITZ THE CAT (1972)
6) CASINO ROYALE (GUEST 1967)
Prison
1. Brute Force
2. There Was A Crooked Man
3. Escape From Alcatraz
4. Stir Crazy
5. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
6. Runaway Train
theme: boxing
1. Rocky
2. Rocky II
3. Rocky III
Intermission: consists of a brisk workout; includes: punching frozen meat, running up the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s steps, running with bricks, drinking raw eggs, chasing chickens, chopping logs, one-handed pushups, and more running with bricks.
4. Rocky IV
5. Rocky V
6. Rocky Balboa
Theme: Found A Job
1. The Bad Sleep Well
2. Goodfellas
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. Blue Collar
5. Killer Of Sheep
6. after life
Theme: Perception of Memories
Prelude: La Jetee
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Memento
3) Solaris
4) Persepolis
5) City of God
6) 12 Monkeys
Theme: Great Music Movies That Aren’t Musicals or Documentaries About Musicians
1) I’m Not There.
2) High Fidelity
3) Almost Famous
4) The Pianist
5) 9 Songs
6) Velvet Goldmine
Theme: Intelligence Reports
1. The Conversation
2. Peeping Tom
3. All The President’s Men
4. Blow Up
5. Rear Window
6. M Butterfly
Theme: Being, And Non-Being
1. Vernon, Florida
2. Fata Morgana
3. Distance (Kore’eda)
4. Au Hasard Balthasar
5. Being There
6. Japon
7. Where Is The Friend’s House
8. Groundhog Day
9. Psycho
10.L’Avventura
Drifters and City Dwellers
Drifters
1. Badlands – Mallick
2. Two-Lane Blacktop – Hellman
3. Fool For Love – Altman
4. Paris, Texas – Wenders
5. McCabe and Mrs. Miller – Altman
6. Days of Heaven – Mallick
Bonus: Pierot le Fou – Godard
City Dwellers
1. The 400 Blows – Truffaut
2. Short Cuts – Altman
3. Metropolitan – Stillman
4. Chungking Express – Kar Wai Wong
5. The Tenant – Polanski
6. Manhattan – Allen
Bonus: Downtown 81 – Basquiat
Foodie
1. Big Night
2. Babette’s Feast
3. Tampopo
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. Eat Drink Man Woman
6. Ratatouille
PUNK
1) SMITHEREENS (SEIDELMAN, 1981)
2) THE GREAT ROCK AND ROLL SWINDLE (TEMPLE, 1979)
3) jUBILEE (JARMAN, 1977)
4) DRILLER KILLER (FERRARA, 1979)
5) REPO MAN (COX, 1984)
6) RUDE BOY (MINGAY/HAZAN, 1980)
DRUGS
1) THE TRIP (CORMAN, 1967)
2) BLUE SUNSHINE (LIEBERMAN, 1976)
3) LIQUID SKY (TSUKERMAN, 1982)
4) DRUGSTORE COWBOY (VAN SANT, 1990)
5) TRASH (MORRISSEY, 1970)
6) FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (GILLIAM, 1998)
7) UP IN SMOKE (LOU ADLER, 1978)
8) CHRISTIANE F. (EDEL, 1981)
RAUNCHY REMAKES
1) SCARFACE (DE PALMA, 1983)
2) CAT PEOPLE (SCHRADER, 1982)
3) INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (KAUFMAN, 1978)
4) THE THING (CARPENTER, 1981)
5) THE FLY (CRONENBERG, 1986)
6) THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (CRAVEN, 1972)
CREDIT CRUNCH/RECESSION
1) BLUE COLLAR (SCHRADER, 1978)
2) TIME OUT (L’ EMPLOI DU TEMPS) (CANTET, 2001)
3) THE FULL MONTY (CATTANEO, 1997)
4) GRAPES OF WRATH (FORD, 1940)
5) THE MONEY PIT (BENJAMIN, 1986)
6) FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (KOTCHEFF, 1977)
URBAN JUNGLES
1) COLORS (HOPPER, 1988)
2) WALL STREET (STONE, 1987)
3) TUFF TURF (KIERSCH, 1985)
4) DEATH WISH (WINNER, 1974)
5) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (KUBRICK, 1971)
5) MIXED BLOOD (MORRISSEY, 1985)
6) THE WILD ONE (BENEDEK, 1953)
CAMP AS CHRISTMAS
1) THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (TASHLIN, 1956)
2) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (SHARMAN, 1975)
3) PINK FLAMINGOES (WATERS, 1971)
4) THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (KIMMEL, 1976)
5) BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS (MEYER, 1978)
6) STRICTLY BALLROOM (LURHMANN, 1992)
New York
1. Do The Right Thing
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
4. The Hospital
5. The Squid & The Whale
6. After Hours
Mason & Dixon
1. sex lies and videotape
2. George Washington
3. Passion Fish
4. Vernon Florida
5. Loggerheads
6. Blue Velvet
DEAD MUSICIANS
1) DOGS IN SPACE
2) MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
3) CONTROL
4) SID AND NANCY
5 THE ROSE
6) JUICE
Memorable Soundtracks:
1. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs
2. The Pink Panther
3. Breakfast At Tiffanys
4. Charade
5. Dr. No
6. Breathless
Theme: Film School
1. American Movie
2. The Five Obstructions
3. Christmas on Mars
4. El Mariachi
Theme: Mindfuck
1. Christmas on Mars
2. Holy Mountain
3. Begotten
4. Waking Life
Horror Playlist
1.Suspiria
2.Rosemary’s Baby
3.The Shining
4.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5.Evil Dead
Movies from India Playlist
1.Pather Panchali
2.Meghe Dhaka Tara
3.Guide
4.Kalyug
5.Company
Olivier, Probably
Theme: Samurai!
1.47 ronin
2.seven samurai
3.sword of doom
4.Yojimbo
5.sanjuro