My Favorite Movies
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Taxi Driver 1976, R)
Vietnam veteran Travis won't be able to sleep. He gets a night taxi driver job and becomes more and more sucked into the black hole of New York endless nights... screenwriter Paul Schrader wrote this existential hero nightmare heavily influenced by Dostoievski's "Notes from the Underground". Very hard, very violent, fascinating... |
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| 2 |
Oldboy 2004, R)
Modern revenge story, with an outstanding style. Black humor, greek tragedy echoes, and an interesting plot... mucho more than hollywood thrillers these days |
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| 3 |
After Hours 1985, R)
Griffin Dunne is guilty of wanting to get laid and is therefore thrown into an urban hell where everybody wants to kill him. A masterpiece script for a "never getting home" nightmare modern tale. |
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| 4 |
Full Metal Jacket 1987, R)
Ain't war hell? Existential hero private joker lives through the transformation of people in soldiers and the nonsense of war, getting to know the ambivalence of human existence, wanting to live in peace and being a killing animal at the same time. Not much about Vietnam but about war among de-humanized humans. |
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Adaptation 2002, R)
Screenwriter Charlie Kauffman is trying to adapt the book "The Orchid Thief"... at the same time he is trying to adapt to life. Will he succeed? Is his life as good as his script as good as his twin brother's life or his twin's brother's script or Susan Orlean's book? Would he have to adapt his life to script, and pay attention to McKee? |
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| 6 |
The Big Lebowski 1998, R)
Chandleresque comedy where old time hippie Lebowski gets in the middle of every weird scheme in town and tries to get to the heart of it, never getting anything and where anything makes sense, which turns out to shed more truth about life than most PI flicks. Very funny, with superb Goodman, Buscemi, Turturro and of course Jeff Bridges, "the dude" itself. |
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| 7 |
Badlands 1973, PG)
Teenage angst poetry in the form of a teenager holiday diary, with charismatic Kit scaping from the adult world with incredibly blue eyed Holly, only to start a senseless killing spree. The moment you walk in this story is like stepping into someone else's dream. |
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| 8 |
Blade Runner 1982, R)
Existential robots get back to earth to get most human question answered: how long am i gonna live? Blade runner Deckard tries to hunt them, but along the way understands that humanity is what one becomes and not where we start |
