My Favorite Movies
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| 1 |
Serenity 2005, PG-13)
Pure poetry. Beautiful, political, funny, smart. |
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| 2 |
My Beautiful Laundrette 1985, R)
A study in the interplay between class, race and nation. Beautifully written film (it should've gotten the Oscar, screw 'Hannah and Her Sisters'). This is one of the only films Daniel Day-Lewis has been in that was set in the present and not based on a book (so, we see him with really bad 80s hairs and clothes dancing to bad 80s music - I can see why he does adapted period pieces...) |
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| 3 |
Exotica 1994, R)
Yum. Elias Koteas, Don McKellar & Atom Egoyan. Great combo. I love it that you don't know what's going on until the very end, when all the strands come together. Atmospheric, powerfull film. |
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| 4 |
Brazil 1985, R)
A masterpiece |
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| 5 |
Suspiria 1977, R)
[drools] The plot makes no sense, but the atmosphere is delectable |
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| 6 |
Dead Alive (Braindead) 1992, R)
Very fun - romance, sacrilege, zombies, creepy baby, 20-minute-long-zombie killing scene. It's got it all. |
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| 7 |
American Psycho 2000, R)
One of the best allegorical representations of capitalism I have ever seen. The moment I realized the reason it was set in the 80s, Reagan appeared on the screen. Brilliant. He is emotionless, when he tells the truth no one listens, he is above the law... And the absurdity and black comedy is quite enjoyable and complicates the tone of the film - the entirety of which the MPAA objected to! |
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| 8 |
The Corporation 2003, Unrated)
must see |
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| 9 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) 1928, Unrated)
This film makes me drool like the film snob that I am. It's just stunning and sumptuous and other long words. |
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| 10 |
Sunset Boulevard 1950, Unrated)
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| 11 |
The Last Wave 1977, PG)
Complicated, imaginative and powerful. |
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| 12 |
Storm Over Asia 1999, Unrated)
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| 13 |
Battle Royale 3D 2001, Unrated)
Life-affirmingly good for a horror fan. Though it's not quite a horror film, it has all the familiar symptoms of one. |
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| 14 |
This Is Spinal Tap 1984, R)
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| 15 |
Rear Window 1954, PG)
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| 16 |
Hot Fuzz 2006, R)
That's the bourgeois mentality, there. |
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| 17 |
Waydowntown 2000, R)
The even more sarcastic, Canadian version of Office Space, delightful, but also goes to real issues of the stifling nature of the misnamed middle-class office work. |
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| 18 |
Secrets & Lies 1996, R)
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| 19 |
Beautiful Thing 1996, R)
By far the finest I've seen and my favorite gay-coming-of-age-romantic-comedy-drama - about two working class Britons. |
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| 20 |
Groundhog Day 1993, PG)
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| 21 |
So I Married an Axe Murderer 1993, PG-13)
A Smith family favorite. Still makes me laugh and I can recite most of the lines. |
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| 22 |
Office Space 1999, R)
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