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[Ivan]

drunken rant *

It can be hard to discover good movies, especially in places where movie theaters and television channels play mostly new or solely commercial releases. So let's post some movies that can help us expand our field of vision and provide experiences that inspire us to become better artists and game designers.

Let's try to stick to these rules as a general guideline.

 - Nothing from after the year 2000
 - Nothing made in Hollywood

I am not implying in any way that nothing good or important was made after the year 2000 or that there is no noteworthy cinema that came out of Hollywood, but I strongly feel that these two simple rules allow us to broaden the suggestions to include films that might have otherwise escaped our radar.

P.S. Try to post a link to a trailer along with your suggestion if a good trailer is out there.

I will start with these:

Army of Shadows -  Jean-Pierre Melville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on38oTESbHU

The Underground - Emir Kusturica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0qwYCuQIcs

Time of the Gypsies - Emir Kusturica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cyBXPMurJY

Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFAlegTEBUU

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfowVslQBQk

Dead Man - Jim jarmusch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07xKQakj1hM

Alphaville - jean-Luc Godard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4k7XIdk7Vk

Fantastic Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Man With a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytJFyMHZl0

Battleshp Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q

Blowup - Michelangelo Antonioni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xz1utzILj4

Fahrenheit 451 - Francois Truffaut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQ-yGCyjyM

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EUXqIwDkQ

[Movius]

pic relateddisregard, made after 2000.

I'll recommend some Takeshi Kitano instead:

Hana-bi

Sonatine

[Aquin]

Yeah, Solaris (the original) was absolutely mind-blowing.

Well, the drive through the tunnel was lame.  But the director was legally obligated to put that in or else face execution from the Russians.

Yay communism!

I'm also very partial to My Neighbor Totoro.  It could be my favourite Miyazaki flick. :O

[siiseli]

Spring Summer Fall Winter.. And Spring
bloody fine.

[Ivan]

You fail rule #1, but it I'll check it out.

[Melly]

Man, I remember watching Fantastic Planet. Creepy as fuck.

[Mipe]

Don't wanna. 

[C418]

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top 

Trust me.

[Movius]

M is great.

[Ivan]

Koyaanisqatsi - Ron Fricke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ

Baraka - Ron Fricke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1nSVy8q8I

Amarcord - Federico Fellini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtG9ZM-ZHnY

Last Tango In Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6-Nq8VQ-8

Aguirre, the Wrath of God -  Werner Herzog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3D0h4xCro

[Ivan]

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top 

Trust me.

Many of those fail rule #2 (and rule #1)!

[C418]

And... so?

[Pishtaco]

Why should we watch all these? And what's wrong with being made in hollywood?

[Mipe]

Hollywood is the cheap bitchez. You get the pleasure for a low price in a package with STD.

[C418]

 



 

I've seen about 100 of those movies in that list. I never complained about "holywodod bithcez" or any outrageous new film. This list contains a lot of impressive films. You will never see The Fast and The Furious on it.