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For whatever reason I decided to start up a list of movies I would recommend to most people. (Well, I think the reason was that a co-worker asked me what I thought the "my favorite movie of all time" was and rather than avoid answering I spouted out the first movie on this list and, to my surprise, she actually watched the dvd of it I trotted in to work the next day. And liked it.)
I present the list below in the order in which they occurred to me over a period of approximately 15 minutes. . I think you would very likely enjoy one if you plucked it off the list.
BTW -- I was looking at tinear's post a bit further down, and the responses. One thing I must say: it is just wrong to think of tinear as a snob. He has provided a whole bunch of wonderful recommendations over the years. A couple I watched after reading his posts are on this list (which was conjured up before reading the post below).
So here you go. Hope you enjoy something on it:
Koyaanisqatsi
Blade Runner
California Split
Chinatown
Casino
Cabaret
French Connection
Spinal Tap
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Breathless
Bicycle Thieves
Andy Warhol's Flesh & Trash
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
The Godfather 1 & 2
All That Jazz
Round Midnight
Annie Hall
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
Jackie Brown
The Unforgiven
Fargo
Amadeus
Get Shorty
The Player
Dial M For Murder
(also) A Perfect Murder
Magnificent Ambersons
Andrei Rublev
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Boogie Nights
Memories of Murder
Silence of the Lambs & Hannibal
The Guard
The Hangover
Young Adult
Stolen Kisses
Closely Watched Trains
Blow-Up
Road Runner cartoons
Murder My Sweet & Farewell My Lovely
The Hustler
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Saving Grace
Shutter Island
1984
Being There
The Fog of War
Crumb
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differentiates between entertainment and art.
Before anyone misunderstands, they aren't necessarily exclusionary, i.e. an entertaining film may be artistic. An artistic film may be entertaining.
Example of first: Alien.
Of the second: Solaris.
City of Life and Death. Factually true to the book, The Rape of Nanking, it features intense and realistic battle scenes (tho the movie is much, much, more than a war flick) and a stinging indictment of the treatment of and slaughter of the citizens by the conquering Japanese.
Good list you put together, glad to see The Player included. In the same vein I'd recommend Swimming With Sharks, another good Hollywood insider flick.
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