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)