Kusturica’s UNDERGROUND.
It has everything I need from a film.
probably the exterminating angel from bunuel
The Exorcist
I’m diggin’ all the Kubrick love!
Got to say either the last Kubrick film I watched or Andrei Rublev.
This changes all the time for me. But right now i’d have to say “Amadeus”
Brokeback Mountain
La Dolce Vita – a film whose form matches the content perfectly, and it has my favorite ending ever.
A Taste of Cherry
Kiarostami’s ability to bring life and meaning to a film with great economy was something I’ve never seen before.
Breaking The Waves.
Another vote for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY here.
I know this will be compeltely out of place here, but this film meant a lot to me in college and still resonates with me today, a s few years after graduation: Fight Club
Le Feu Follet
spirit of the beehive is the best film ever made, period.
Maltese Falcon
8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
King of the Hill by Steven Soderberg. The first film he did where you could actually SEE humidity and heat. and it totally reminded me of my childhood..but like 40 years later.
Eight and a Half.
It has everything. Dreams, hallucinations, amazing images, music, performances to die for, pre-emptive self-criticism, joy and mystery. Most of all, it displays the futility of art engaged with commerce; the inability art struggles with to present “truth”—while going so far to conquer these very barriers.
Despite the homages, the only film I’ve seen that approaches these themes is Kaufman’s “Synecdoche”. Kaufman claims to have never seen 8 1/2. How implausible. Other than the immense difference in tone (Kaufman is depressed; Federico is joyful), the similarities are almost too numerous to ennumerate.
But…b&w, foreign language, 45 years old…who has the patience or curiosity?
Keaton and Bruckman’s THE GENERAL. Practically perfect in every way, a delight that makes life worth living.
Videodrome by David Cronenberg
Vertigo
Boogie Nights
The Third Man – the greatest film ever made.
You have to be 77 years old, like me, to know what a great film is – there hasn’t even been a good one, least of all a great one, in half a century. (Whoops, sorry Chinatown.) Is there anything worse than a “contemporary” American film? You have to go to Taiwan to find good films now – the sad truth
dancer in the dark? :)
Playtime
Right now, it’s The 400 Blows
Days of Heaven
wonder6789
Last Year at Marienbad