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Film is a very powerful medium. In a good theater the director has control
over the visual and audio senses of the audience and can create fantastic
worlds and tell stories that express the range of human experience. The
following is a list of some of my favorite movies:
- Amelie
- American Splendor
- Badlands (great soundtrack, too)
- Barry Lyndon
- A Beautiful Mind
- Beautiful Women
- Benny and Joon
- Blue
- Brokeback Mountain
- Brother From Another Planet
- Celebration
- Cinema Paradiso
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Corporation
- Crash (2005)
- Cries and Whispers
- Dancer in the Dark
- Dazed and Confused
- Dersu Uzala
- Dogville
- Edward Scissorshands
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Eyes Wide Shut
- A Face in the Crowd
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Finding Forrester
- The Fog of War
- Gattaca
- Ghost World
- Gods and Monsters
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Good Will Hunting
- The Graduate
- Groundhog Day
- Heavy
- Hidden Fortress (Must See - Star Wars was a remake of this!)
- Hitch
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- I am Curious Yellow
- Into Great Silence
- It Happened Here
- Italian For Beginners
- The Man with the Movie Camera
- Metropolis
- Mifune
- Monster's Ball
- North by Northwest
- Notorious
- Klute
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Life is Beautiful
- Living in Oblivion*
- Love the Hard Way
- Man with the Movie Camera
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Paris, Texas
- Play It As It Lays
- Point of Order, 1964
- Pyaasa
- Quiz Show
- Red
- Ruby in Paradise
- Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu, 1939)
- Scenes from a Marriage
- Secrets and Lies
- Sherman's March
- Six O'Clock News
- Slacker
- Sling Blade
- South Park
- Spellbound*
- Stand and Deliver
- The Station Agent
- Stormy Monday
- Suburbia
- The Tao of Steve*
- Tape
- Timecode
- Waking Life
- White
- Wings of Desire
- The Year of Living Dangerously
- You Can Count On Me*
- Z
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* Titles marked with an asterisk indicate that the DVD has a really
good commentary.
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