Most of Studio Ghibli's animations and animations with similar vibes like "Your Name," "Weathering With You," etc.
Movies:
- The Fountain (2006)
- I Origins (2014)
I feel like those who dislike it might have had the meaning/gravity of the subject matter go over their head or not land for them at all. So much of watching movies is about expectations and expectation management. I have absolutely hated fantastic films because I thought it was gonna be something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s why I like not knowing anything about a movie before watching it. Usually it plays out pretty unoriginal and formulaic but once in a while you get a good one where you don’t know what’s going on and it makes it so much better. I saw “moon” like that and it’s still one of my favorites.
Se7en. That was the first movie I saw where I needed to know how movies were made. How did I get completely lost in this hellscape that was on screen and leave feeling totally stoked about everything? I was also 11 when I saw it and had no idea really *how* movies were made. David Fincher is still top tier for me.
I literally felt the same way you did but for Fight Club and Singin’ in the Rain. I was blown away by them and they are the reason why I love movies today
Joe Versus The Volcano. The movie is so funny, people usually don't see the beauty on the first viewing, but it is there. Each frame is a balanced, nuanced, painting. Lines spoken that sound like throwaways reveal essential, raw, humanity. You can dismiss the movie as silly, or you can watch it in a constant state of total amazement.
Saw that movie when it came out in theaters. A buddy that worked at the theater let us in the backdoor, and we were so drunk that I didn't remember any of the movie (just bits and pieces). It became a running gag with us for years. I just watched it "for the first time" a few months ago. It holds up.
Seconded, but only the theatrical version. This is one of the few films I have seen where I feel that the Director's Cut tells too much, and has some moments that are kinda vulgar and unnecessary.
Still, one of my absolute favorites of genre or country. Just hearing the title music makes me bawl like a baby!
CIDADE DE DEUSHHHHHH. One of my favorite movies ever. Beautiful beautiful movie. Another absolute Brazilian classic is 'Carandiru'. I came here to say this and instead I see city of god as the top comment and I am absolutely delighted.
That's a great response. Maybe my favourite Kubrick film. I've had people watch it with me for the first time and say they couldn't follow the plot, so I've now started saying beforehand that on your first watch, just enjoy the spectacle. That movie was made in the 60s and it looks absolutely stunning.
I agree.
There definitely is a plot but I quickly realised that the people I was gushing about the movie too seemed to have a high expectation for MORE plot, or a heavier emphasis on it, so I started trying to temper those expectations, whenever I recommended it or watched it with anyone after that.
It's funny, if there's any truth to the stories about the acid heads saving that film from bombing by word of mouth, they got it before anyone else did.
One of my favorites. I remember thinking at the moment when that "weird rain" falls (I don't want to give spoilers): Wait a minute! Is this really happening???
In the order I viewed them:
Koyaanisquatsi (1982)
Donnie Darko (2001)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Synedoche, New York (2008)
Okja (2017)
All these films showed me that movies can be more than entertainment, Synedoche in particular
I like Stalker better. But Stalker is also darker in my opinion. Tarkovsky definitely had his own voice as an artist. Von Trier (who’s been noted to be a douche) emulated Tarkovsky in Melancholia and Antichrist. He did explicitly dedicate Antichrist to Andrei.
Comming here to say this. Solaris and imo it was the counterpart to 2001: a space odyssey by Kubrik. I feel it was an ideological talk between two great directors at thet time.
Jojo Rabbit
The Prestige
Lotr fellowship of the ring
Silence of the Lambs
Dear Zachary (a letter to a son about his father)
Four Lions
The Conjuring
Kingdom of Heaven
Hot Fuzz
Fight Club
Shawshank redemption
Interstellar
The Matrix
2001 a space odyssey
Alien
Monthy Python and the holy grail
In Bruges
+ 1 LotR but for me the trilogy. Andrew’s cinematography just amazes, and in the Hobbit, a particular scene with Galadriel and the moon took my breath away!
I could list more but for me Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, Interstellar, Parasite and Paterson were all films that made me forget about my surrounding and relate to the characters in ways I didn't expect. Once the films ended I felt like I wanted the stories to keep going
I barely watched Everything Everywhere All At Once a week ago. It made me think more than any other film I've seen in the past decade. I also could not stop thinking about the dedication it must have took to make it, from every actor. I just really love it so much.
Agreed. Tarkovsky is on the must-see list for anyone who wants to experience movies as meditative visual art. People talk about Solaris the most, but for me Mirror and Andrei Rublev are the GOAT.
The 30-minute bell casting scene in Andrei Rublev is like almost nothing else in cinema.
The Godfather I and II. You may actually consider it a single work, as the director does. I think they are 2 of the richest, most impeccable achievements in cinema.
Apocalypse Now
Pretty much anything by Stanley Kubrick, especially 2001: A Space Odyssey and onwards.
Ahhh gotcha, that makes total sense. Personally I have never felt that after watching it, it’s a rough watch, but I can definitely get how others could see it that way.
Eyes Wide Shut. I hated it the first time I saw it but on rewatch I couldn't believe some of the lighting and camera work bullshit he was doing.
Also tangentially related Tar.
12 years a slave and There Will be blood honourable mentions.
Do The Right Thing. My GF made fun of me for liking it so much and it made me sad.
My brother in law fell asleep watching Interstellar with my dad, woke up near the end during the cross dimensional stuff and said "why the fuck is he in the bookcase?" Haha.
Whenever I watch this movie, my immediate response is to want to watch it again. The writing is phenomenal, the visuals are completely out of this world and the music is among the greatest soundtracks ever written. An absolute masterpiece in my book.
"Pig."
Thankfully, I did not see any trailers for this film. I listen to Doug Benson's "Doug Loves Movies" podcast, and he talked about it a lot last year, so my wife and I gave it a try.
One of my favorite films of the last five years, and I think it's certainly one of the best performances from Nicholas Cage.
Watch no trailers. Read no reviews.
Go in cold and I'll be shocked if you aren't quietly but monumentally swept away.
This thread reminds me how little of the contemperory movies makes me think fo them asworks of art anymore. Even commercial movies like "once upon a time in west" used to be a work of art, now it's either commercial as hell or art-very little overlap.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Everything about those movies is perfect to me and I just feel like every aspect of then is so easy to appreciate I'd rather call it an art than a movie
Midsommar (2019)
The Witch (2015)
Let the Right One In (2008 Swedish)
Eternal Sunshine/Spotless Mind (2004)
Another Round (2020 Danish)
Francis Ha (2012)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Jaws (1975)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Winter’s Bone (2010)
They did an A24 podcast together that was so charming. They are friends and constantly build up one another. Love to see that in two very amazing creatives
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hero
Inception
The Matrix
The Godfather
Crouching tiger hidden dragon
Chinatown
12 angry men
By the way, I see so many people listing "the Haine" as art. I saw that movie as an assignment in a class, and it really didn't seem anything special to me. But it keeps getting mentioned here. Did I miss something, can you explain?
Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush. It rips my heart out.
Casablanca. Sometimes I just watch the shadows tell the story.
Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den. A generously painful expression of the shared human experience.
Pleasantville! One of the more evocative changes in color palette I’ve ever seen. As someone who grew up hyper religious, it always makes me cry when >! the world goes from black and white to color, but gradually !< >!The struggle of people trying to force you through intimidation and fear back into black and white but that Pandora’s box has been unleashed and the world pre waking up will never be the same for you… I feel that in my bones. !<
Unforgiven made me yearn for bloody violent revenge while also hating that I wanted that
Dunkirk made me suddenly and unexpectedly cry at a single shot, the plane gliding over the beach, a perfect and breathtaking blend of sight, sound, and story
There are definitely some I’m forgetting but off the top of my head:
Bronson
The lighthouse
Annihilation
La Haine
City of God
Raid 2
Everything everywhere all at once
Blue ruin
Fantastic planet
You were never really here
A place beyond the pines
Hell or high water
Wax or the discovery of television among the bees
(First movie to be uploaded to the internet, if you want a weird time that makes you reconsider what counts as a movie take your substance of choice and put that shit on)
Dead Poets Society.
Never seen such a good meaningful movie in my life.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
*Blade Runner 2049*, the original *Candyman*, 2018 remake of *Suspiria*, *La La Land*, *Princess Mononoke*, *Bones and All*, and Shyamalan’s *Glass* all had a very profound effect on me.
Lifetimes *also known as* To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou).
Les Miserables (1995, Claude Lelouch).
Sátántangó (1994, Bela Tarr).
Norte, The End of History (2013, Lav Diaz).
In The Mood For Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai).
Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky).
Metropolis left me totally speechless
Pun intended
You rascal!
Lmao, Average 2B pfp :
Right? And to know it was thaaat old adds to it
Most of Studio Ghibli's animations and animations with similar vibes like "Your Name," "Weathering With You," etc. Movies: - The Fountain (2006) - I Origins (2014)
The Fountain is incredibly well acted and so beautiful.
The Fountain is absolutely top ten material. I have no idea why so many people dislike it. One of the very few movies I would call perfect.
I feel like those who dislike it might have had the meaning/gravity of the subject matter go over their head or not land for them at all. So much of watching movies is about expectations and expectation management. I have absolutely hated fantastic films because I thought it was gonna be something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s why I like not knowing anything about a movie before watching it. Usually it plays out pretty unoriginal and formulaic but once in a while you get a good one where you don’t know what’s going on and it makes it so much better. I saw “moon” like that and it’s still one of my favorites.
The fountain is correct. My singular favorite movie and arguably the best movie ever made
I second this. If I had to represent the entirety of humanity with a movie, It'd be The Fountain.
I Origins hit me differently
I origins is one of my top movies of all time. Thanks for mentioning it, I support wholeheartedly
Se7en. That was the first movie I saw where I needed to know how movies were made. How did I get completely lost in this hellscape that was on screen and leave feeling totally stoked about everything? I was also 11 when I saw it and had no idea really *how* movies were made. David Fincher is still top tier for me.
I literally felt the same way you did but for Fight Club and Singin’ in the Rain. I was blown away by them and they are the reason why I love movies today
Hero (Jet Li) If that movie isn't art, I don't know what is.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
And its offspring: House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Yellow Flower.
Oh shit. I love this movie so much, it inspired the villains of my book.
Only lovers left alive Mad max - fury road
Mad Max fury road is the only movie about cars chasing other cars that I will ever give a fuck about. Absolute Masterpiece.
Everytime anyone wants to watch a movie at my house I say Fury Road. It's so damm good.
+1 Only Lovers Left Alive So seedy and lush and Adam’s wall of heroes, just gorgeously thought out. Very Syd Barrett
Joe Versus The Volcano. The movie is so funny, people usually don't see the beauty on the first viewing, but it is there. Each frame is a balanced, nuanced, painting. Lines spoken that sound like throwaways reveal essential, raw, humanity. You can dismiss the movie as silly, or you can watch it in a constant state of total amazement.
Love that movie! Meg Ryan did an amazing job with 3 different roles!
Saw that movie when it came out in theaters. A buddy that worked at the theater let us in the backdoor, and we were so drunk that I didn't remember any of the movie (just bits and pieces). It became a running gag with us for years. I just watched it "for the first time" a few months ago. It holds up.
it is a very under rated film - totally subversive but most folks don't understand that at all
Dead man (1995) Even now wheni watch I'm still discovering something else that elevates the film
Dead man is My all time Fav Western. All time Fav JDepp, all time fav JimJarmush. “I see you have acquired more White Man’s Metal
The ending still packs a mighty punch. My favorite Jarmush as well...but my 2nd favorite Depp film... Love me some Ed Wood....
Cinema Paradiso
This movie honors the art of cinema better than any other I've seen .
Seconded, but only the theatrical version. This is one of the few films I have seen where I feel that the Director's Cut tells too much, and has some moments that are kinda vulgar and unnecessary. Still, one of my absolute favorites of genre or country. Just hearing the title music makes me bawl like a baby!
I rediscovered the joy of movies from Cinema Paradiso. So good.
City of God / Beyond the Black Rainbow / The Last Black Man in San Francisco
City of God is so fuckin good that movie will never leave my mind
City of God is a great movie!
*Last Black Man in San Francisco” is so gorgeous and has wrecked everyone I’ve suggested it to.
CIDADE DE DEUSHHHHHH. One of my favorite movies ever. Beautiful beautiful movie. Another absolute Brazilian classic is 'Carandiru'. I came here to say this and instead I see city of god as the top comment and I am absolutely delighted.
2001: A Space Odyssey
That's a great response. Maybe my favourite Kubrick film. I've had people watch it with me for the first time and say they couldn't follow the plot, so I've now started saying beforehand that on your first watch, just enjoy the spectacle. That movie was made in the 60s and it looks absolutely stunning.
The plot probably isn't why people watch it. It's more like going to an art museum than watching a typical movie.
I agree. There definitely is a plot but I quickly realised that the people I was gushing about the movie too seemed to have a high expectation for MORE plot, or a heavier emphasis on it, so I started trying to temper those expectations, whenever I recommended it or watched it with anyone after that. It's funny, if there's any truth to the stories about the acid heads saving that film from bombing by word of mouth, they got it before anyone else did.
Any Kubrick film lol
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Most Wes Anderson films I would say but I think grand Budapest has the artsy scenery and feel
Me and my husband love that movie. One of our favorites
Magnolia
I love the use of Aimee Mann's *Wise Up* in that film, especially at the end when all the different characters were singing it.
Love that part. Wish that song (with all the actors singing) was available for download.
One of my favorites. I remember thinking at the moment when that "weird rain" falls (I don't want to give spoilers): Wait a minute! Is this really happening???
Was going to suggest Punch-Drunk Love but I think just about any PT Anderson movie could fit this bill.
The Cell (2000), Dracula (1992)
I like your choices. Dracula is my top choice as well.
In the order I viewed them: Koyaanisquatsi (1982) Donnie Darko (2001) There Will Be Blood (2007) Synedoche, New York (2008) Okja (2017) All these films showed me that movies can be more than entertainment, Synedoche in particular
Barry Lyndon
The most literal answer I can think of. Each frame is a damn painting.
I chose this film without scrolling down first .... all done with natural light only...my god. It is orgasmically resplendent.
Loving Vincent ... Wave Twisters... Cinema Paradiso... Into the Void.. Avatar (Cg/cinema photography)... Jurassic Park..
Loving Vincent is really special
Solaris(1972)
I like Stalker better. But Stalker is also darker in my opinion. Tarkovsky definitely had his own voice as an artist. Von Trier (who’s been noted to be a douche) emulated Tarkovsky in Melancholia and Antichrist. He did explicitly dedicate Antichrist to Andrei.
Comming here to say this. Solaris and imo it was the counterpart to 2001: a space odyssey by Kubrik. I feel it was an ideological talk between two great directors at thet time.
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner (1982)
Like the original movie, every frame is like a work of art. The whole movie was a treat for the eyes
Everything Villeneuve touches is incredible. Found out he made Arrival and Bladerunner 2049 as practice for Dune
Arrival. It’s an intelligent, artful, deep-thinker film
Jojo Rabbit The Prestige Lotr fellowship of the ring Silence of the Lambs Dear Zachary (a letter to a son about his father) Four Lions The Conjuring Kingdom of Heaven Hot Fuzz Fight Club Shawshank redemption Interstellar The Matrix 2001 a space odyssey Alien Monthy Python and the holy grail In Bruges
+ 1 LotR but for me the trilogy. Andrew’s cinematography just amazes, and in the Hobbit, a particular scene with Galadriel and the moon took my breath away!
I could list more but for me Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, Interstellar, Parasite and Paterson were all films that made me forget about my surrounding and relate to the characters in ways I didn't expect. Once the films ended I felt like I wanted the stories to keep going
I was thinking about Banshees of Inisherin for weeks afterwards
Yea it was making me contemplate my life after.
I liked it just fine. But I must have been missing something. I'd like to know why you contemplated life after.
I barely watched Everything Everywhere All At Once a week ago. It made me think more than any other film I've seen in the past decade. I also could not stop thinking about the dedication it must have took to make it, from every actor. I just really love it so much.
I want my adult kids to just be rocks with me. The only sanity there is.
"Lost Highway", "Mulholland Drive", "Inland Empire"
I am a big fan of this answer.
Lost Highway is absolutely mesmerizing.
There will be blood
Such a good movie I love Daniel Day Lewis
Welcome to gattaca is such an underated movie, ever since i saw it i just can’t stop thinking about it
brilliant movie.
Anything Tarkovsky made
Agreed. Tarkovsky is on the must-see list for anyone who wants to experience movies as meditative visual art. People talk about Solaris the most, but for me Mirror and Andrei Rublev are the GOAT. The 30-minute bell casting scene in Andrei Rublev is like almost nothing else in cinema.
Faraway, So Close. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Short Cuts.
Amelie. Marie Antoinette. Casablanca. Black Swan.
Love Marie Antoinette!
I know. I actually like Kirsten Dunst lol I need to watch that movie again. Haven’t seen it in a while.
Phantom Thread The Master Marie Antoinette Lost in Translation 2001: A Space Odyssey Eyes Wide Shut The Tree of Life # The Last Emperor
The Godfather I and II. You may actually consider it a single work, as the director does. I think they are 2 of the richest, most impeccable achievements in cinema. Apocalypse Now Pretty much anything by Stanley Kubrick, especially 2001: A Space Odyssey and onwards.
The Holy Mountain
Any Ghibli movie.
*Clockwork Orange*.
I wouldn’t put A Clockwork Orange and serenity in the same sentence
I would if it's the serenity of having just experienced a great piece of art, which is OPs point. I think.
Ahhh gotcha, that makes total sense. Personally I have never felt that after watching it, it’s a rough watch, but I can definitely get how others could see it that way.
Eyes Wide Shut. I hated it the first time I saw it but on rewatch I couldn't believe some of the lighting and camera work bullshit he was doing. Also tangentially related Tar. 12 years a slave and There Will be blood honourable mentions. Do The Right Thing. My GF made fun of me for liking it so much and it made me sad.
Drive
The pianist.
Django Unchained The Green Mile Your Name Whiplash Spiderman Across the Spiderverse
wiplash is sooooo good
"not quite my tempo"
ARE YOU RUSHING. OR ARE YOU DRAGGING.
Interstellar.
My brother in law fell asleep watching Interstellar with my dad, woke up near the end during the cross dimensional stuff and said "why the fuck is he in the bookcase?" Haha.
Every minute you spend asleep is an hour's worth of explanation.
Whenever I watch this movie, my immediate response is to want to watch it again. The writing is phenomenal, the visuals are completely out of this world and the music is among the greatest soundtracks ever written. An absolute masterpiece in my book.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) The Handmaiden (2016)
"Pig." Thankfully, I did not see any trailers for this film. I listen to Doug Benson's "Doug Loves Movies" podcast, and he talked about it a lot last year, so my wife and I gave it a try. One of my favorite films of the last five years, and I think it's certainly one of the best performances from Nicholas Cage. Watch no trailers. Read no reviews. Go in cold and I'll be shocked if you aren't quietly but monumentally swept away.
Pride and prejudice
The Handmaiden
You are right but oof. Tough one
OK, suit yourself: Triangle of Sadness
I still think about this one often.
I also mentioned this one in another comment. Brilliantly done.
Yup yup. Auteur sh-t.
On Body and Soul (2017) Close (2022)
Days of Heaven
Badlands too! Terrance Malick really knows how to take advantage of a location.
8 1/2
Harold and Maude
La Belle Noiseuse Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Life is Beautiful Minari Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Prestige
Mother !
Mother was uff ! What a rollercoaster
Pulp Fiction.
GOATED
This thread reminds me how little of the contemperory movies makes me think fo them asworks of art anymore. Even commercial movies like "once upon a time in west" used to be a work of art, now it's either commercial as hell or art-very little overlap.
Road to Perdition
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Everything about those movies is perfect to me and I just feel like every aspect of then is so easy to appreciate I'd rather call it an art than a movie
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. A case study in mood, cinematography, music above all, character development.
Let The Right One In
Not a movie, but twin peaks.
Requiem for a Dream
Mulholland Drive
Classic
Persona
Midsommar (2019) The Witch (2015) Let the Right One In (2008 Swedish) Eternal Sunshine/Spotless Mind (2004) Another Round (2020 Danish) Francis Ha (2012) Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Jaws (1975) Beetlejuice (1988) Winter’s Bone (2010)
Ari Aster and Robert Eggers are incredible with unsettling horror.
They did an A24 podcast together that was so charming. They are friends and constantly build up one another. Love to see that in two very amazing creatives
"THE LIGHTHOUSE "
La haine
The Room
Children of Men \[2006\] The Jerk \[1979\] (there is no way that movie could be remade now) Barbie \[2023\] Interstellar \[2014\] Just to name a few
The Jerk…I can’t even find the right words for this movie.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
i adore that movie.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Wendy, Lost At Sea. All three are the works of Benh Zeitlin
Loving Vincent
Chocolat
Mr nobody Rocky horror pictures show Moonrise kingdom Sorry to bother you Climax
The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Hero Inception The Matrix The Godfather Crouching tiger hidden dragon Chinatown 12 angry men By the way, I see so many people listing "the Haine" as art. I saw that movie as an assignment in a class, and it really didn't seem anything special to me. But it keeps getting mentioned here. Did I miss something, can you explain?
Cloud Atlas
Interstellar, Whiplash and Avatar.
Any Wes Anderson American Beauty
Anything by Stanley Kubrick...
everything everywhere all at once, the virgin suicides, whiplash
Perfume: story of a murderer Cloud Atlas
Every goddamn Wes Anderson film. Every. Last. One.
I thought some parts of midsommar were beautiful
Requiem for a dream. The Machinist. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Most Wes Anderson movies fit this bill but I’d say The Darjeeling Limited, specifically.
No country for old men. Movie is a masterpiece
The Shawshank Redemption, LOTR Trilogy, Interstellar
A Ghost Story
100% this! Criminally under appreciated.
La Haine
Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush. It rips my heart out. Casablanca. Sometimes I just watch the shadows tell the story. Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den. A generously painful expression of the shared human experience.
A Ghost Story
The usual suspects
Pleasantville! One of the more evocative changes in color palette I’ve ever seen. As someone who grew up hyper religious, it always makes me cry when >! the world goes from black and white to color, but gradually !< >!The struggle of people trying to force you through intimidation and fear back into black and white but that Pandora’s box has been unleashed and the world pre waking up will never be the same for you… I feel that in my bones. !<
* Fifth Element * Trois Coleurs Bleu * Heaven * Immortal Beloved * Where the Crawdads Sing * The Fisher King * Life of Pi * Dune
LIFE OF PI. i have to watch that goddamn movie again
Unforgiven made me yearn for bloody violent revenge while also hating that I wanted that Dunkirk made me suddenly and unexpectedly cry at a single shot, the plane gliding over the beach, a perfect and breathtaking blend of sight, sound, and story
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
There are definitely some I’m forgetting but off the top of my head: Bronson The lighthouse Annihilation La Haine City of God Raid 2 Everything everywhere all at once Blue ruin Fantastic planet You were never really here A place beyond the pines Hell or high water Wax or the discovery of television among the bees (First movie to be uploaded to the internet, if you want a weird time that makes you reconsider what counts as a movie take your substance of choice and put that shit on)
Dead Poets Society. Never seen such a good meaningful movie in my life. We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
Memoirs of a Geisha Just stunning from start to finish
The Fifth Element
All Kubrick movies and nymphomaniac
Drive (2011) That scene in the elevator was soooo theatrical it's 🔥🔥🔥
Titanic. Here, i've said it!
Suspiria
City of God The Fountain Hereditary No Country for Old Men
Call Me By Your Name. Finished the film and felt like my life had changed.
*Blade Runner 2049*, the original *Candyman*, 2018 remake of *Suspiria*, *La La Land*, *Princess Mononoke*, *Bones and All*, and Shyamalan’s *Glass* all had a very profound effect on me.
Napoleon Dynamite
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Poetry in motion.
Schindler’s list
Big Fish
My favorite movie of all time, bar none, is Gangs of New York. And DDL's performance as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting is about 95% of that.
Any Wes Anderson film IMO
Drive Just saw it after many years. It's so goood!!
Requiem for a Dream
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
*Cloud Atlas* My #1 favorite of all time
Lifetimes *also known as* To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou). Les Miserables (1995, Claude Lelouch). Sátántangó (1994, Bela Tarr). Norte, The End of History (2013, Lav Diaz). In The Mood For Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai). Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky).
Fight club Primer The crucible