film/to-watch

Films To Watch

  • Red Turtle (Ghibli, 2016)
  • 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)
  • Network
  • The Tree of Life
  • 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)
  • 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
  • The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
  • Genesis II (Roddenberry; 1973; Futurama-like plot) (also “The Questor Tapes”)
  • Hard to Be a God (2014)
  • Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
  • Downfall (2004)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Big Chill (Jeff Goldblum)
  • Hunger (2008, McQueen)
  • Adults in the Room (2019; Yanis Varofakis)
  • Virtuosity (1995)
  • Black is King (Beyonce, 2020)
  • Lucky Grandma (2020)
  • She’s Gotta Have It
  • 25th Hour
  • Police Story (Jackie Chan)
  • Cameraperson (2016)
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
  • The Master (2012)
  • Magic Mike (2012)
  • Shadow (2019)
  • Princess of the Row (2020)
  • The Public (2018)
  • Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
  • Redefining the Anti-War Film (long essay)
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (?)
  • A Star Is Born
  • Three Days of the Condor
  • 1900
  • Mank (December 2020)
  • Force Majeure
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Black Bear
  • Family Romance, LLC (2019, Herzog)
  • Psycho Goreman
  • Nomadland
  • Widows (2018)
  • The Ipcress File (1965)
  • Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
  • King of New York (1990)
  • Last and First Men (2020)
  • Victoria (2015)
  • The Parallax View (1974; Seattle)
  • Stolen Kisses (Godard)
  • On the Waterfront
  • Contempt (Godard)
  • The Harder They Fall (2021; netflix)
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
  • Reds (1981)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Your Name (2016, animated; maybe?)
  • Boyz n the Hood (1991)
  • Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • Heat
  • The Shining
  • The Exorcist
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • On the Rocks (2020)
  • Kingdom of Heaven (2005; extended version)
  • Unleashed (Jet Li, 2005)
  • Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg, 2022)
  • Anarchists (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
  • Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)
  • Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013)

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)
  • 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)
  • Titicut Follies
  • High School (doc)
  • The Bunker Films (2020)
  • The Pruitt-Igo Myth (2012)
  • What is Democracy (Astra Taylor)
  • Dead Slow Ahead (2015; marine shipping)
  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
  • Boys State (2020, government camp)

Anime:

  • Deca-Dence
  • Patlabor (robot anime)
  • Knights of Sidonia (anime, TV series)
  • Dorohedoro
  • Great Pretender (TV series)
  • No Guns Life
  • The Sky Crawlers (2008, anime)
  • Space Runaway Ideon (series, and film; Evangelion-like?)
  • Belladonna

Other Lists:

Via L:

  • Sherpa (2015, documentary)
  • An Elephant Sitting Still (2017; Chinese; very long)
  • The Running Man (1987; Arnold)
  • Following (1998; Christopher Nolan)
  • Long Day’s Journey into Night (2018; Chinese)
  • Incendies (2010; Denis Villeneuve)
  • Prisoners (2013; Denis Villeneuve)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951; Hitchcock)
  • Collectiv (2019)