film/to-watch
Films To Watch
- Children of Paradise (big budget french occupation carne)
- Brain Candy
- One, Two, Three
- Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka
- Black Orpheus
- Gummo (low budget 1997 ohio stylized nihilism)
- La Nuit Americaine (Day for Night)
- Last Life in the Universe
- The Man in the White Suit
- Seconds (1966 psychadelic, switching lives, The Company)
- The Lion in Winter
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
- MindGame
- No Smoking
- I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
- Du Levande
- Rykjavik 101
- Dummy
- Logan’s Run
- Sleep Dealer
- Tetsuo: Iron Man
- Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Yi Yi
- 25th Hour
- Babel
- At the Edge of Russia (2011 serbian border soldiers wisdom)
- Cypher (weird 2002 errosion of reality)
- Modesty Blaise (60s female action hero… which year?)
- Five Easy Pieces (jack nicholson as oil worker slash pianist)
- Papillon (1973 prison escape on devil’s island)
- Hardware (cyberpunk distopia)
- Welt am Draht (“World on a Wire”, german VR)
- Lawnmower Man (“bad”)
- Wonderful Days (aka, Sky Blue; anime)
- On the Waterfront
- Talk to Her
- Amour (Heneke)
- When Night Falls (Ying Liang, Chinese)
- The World of Suzie Wong
- Escape From Tomorrow (surreal Disney World)
- Rendition
- Born in Flames
- Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
- Naked Killer
- Twice Born (2012, Penelope Cruz, Balkans)
- Hunger (2008, McQueen)
- True Grit
- Cinema Paradiso
- The Man from Earth
- 500 Days of Summer
- God Bless America
- The Game (Fincher)
- American Psycho
- Network
- The Tree of Life
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001, Coen Brothers)
- House of Games
- We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F)
- Flash Gordon
- Space Station 76
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Millennium Actress
- Perfect Blue
- Tout va bien (1972, Godard)
- Paths of Glory
- Wolf Children (2012, anime)
- Summer Wars (2009, anime)
- Together (2000, Swedish)
- A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
- I Am Love (Tilda Swinton)
- Margin Call
- The Listening (2006)
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- The Chase (1966)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- Rhapsody in August (1991 Kurosawa)
- Ride with the Devil (1999, Ang Lee)
- Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee)
- Land of Plenty (2004, Wim Wenders)
- Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
- Come and See (Soviet, WWII, 1985)
- The Longest Day (WWII, 1962)
- A Better Tomorrow (HK, Woo, 1986)
- Timecrimes (2007)
- Attack the Block
- Footloose
- Ned Rifle (and rest of the trilogy)
- Taxi (Luc Besson)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- City of Women (Felini, 1980)
- Norma Rae
- Subway (Luc Besson)
- The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
- Genesis II (Roddenberry; 1973; Futurama-like plot) (also “The Questor Tapes”)
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
- Hard to Be a God (2014)
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
- Downfall (2004)
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Cache (2005, Haneke)
- Volver
- Talk To Her
- The Wind Rises
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012)
- White Material
- Viktoria
- The Measure of a Man
- Arabian Nights (2015, Gomes, 3 parts)
- Knight of Cups (2015)
- Titus (1999; Shakespearean)
- Agora (Library of Alexandria, 2009)
- Only God Forgives (Bangkok Ryan Gosling, 2013)
- Daisies (Czech new wave, 1966, Věra Chytilová)
- Woman on Top (Penelope Cruz romcom, 2000)
- Okja (2017)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Founder (McDonalds; 2017)
- Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991; net art)
- Song of the Exile (1990, HK, Maggie Cheung)
- Center Stage (1991, HK, Maggie Cheung)
- Clean (Assayas, Maggie Cheung)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
- The Big Chill (Jeff Goldblum)
Documentaries:
- Sans Soliet
- The Shock of the New (1980 BBC “modern art” series)
- Project Grizzly
- Manufacturing Consent
- Hell House
- The Boy With The Incredible Brain
- Gasland (2010, fracking)
- Mondo Cane (shock film)
- Dark Days (2000 NYC underground homeless)
- Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
- All In This Tea
- The Third Wave (2007, tsunami)
- October Sky
- Road House (1989)
- Maidentrip (around the world solo teen)
- Only God Forgives (Bangkok Ryan Gosling, 2013)
- Lo and Behold (Herzog Internet)
- Last Days in Vietnam
- National Bird (drones, 2016)
- Ride the Divide
- The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2014; Gibli+Miyazaki)
- Ex Libris (NYC Library)
- Sinai Field Mission
- The Art of the Steal (2009; art collection)
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