Wheee.. the third time this thread has come up.
I love movies. I watch them as often as I can, several times if possible. I was a film student, so it's a pretty important thing to me. I watch for the beauty of a camera movement, subtleties in sound, editing technique, direction.. I try to analyze and enjoy all at the same time. Oh how I love my DVD player!
My list generally goes as follows (not necessarily in any real order)
Dancer in the Dark (musical w/Björk)
Das Boot (the longer the better)
David Fincher films (Se7en, The Game, Fight Club)
Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket, 2001, etc)
Scorcese films (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, etc, etc, etc)
Bergman films (Hour of the Wolf, Persona)
David Lynch films (Elephant Man, Eraserhead, Lost Highway)
Jim Jarmusch films (Dead Man, Ghost Dog, etc)
Cronenberg films (eXistenz, Crash)
Peter Jackson films (Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures)
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
Delicatessen (?)
Xiu Xiu The Sent-Down Girl (Joan Chen)
Zhang Yimou films (Red Sorghum, To Live)
Antonia's Line (?)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Cohen Brothers films (The Big Lebowski, Fargo)
American Beauty (duh)
P.T. Anderson films (Magnolia, Boogie Nights)
Terry Gilliam films (12 Monkeys, The Fisher King)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
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Other directors whose work I like and plan to see more of..
Federico Fellini (City of Women, Amarcord)
FW Murnau (can't find anything but Nosferatu)
Werner Herzog (also Nosferatu, Aguirra the Wrath of God)
Francis Ford Coppola (I need the time to sit down and really pay attention to the Godfathers)
...and many, many, many more.
NP: Cradle of Filth - Summer Dying Fast (okay remake of a great song. That final riff is soooo good
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