haven't deep dived this, and i haven't seen stuff like
crumb,
ed wood and
satantango which i'd expect to enjoy. also would've liked to rewatch
leon and a few others mentioned in this thread, but oh well. i've cobbled a top 10 together:
10. Amateur (d. Hal Hartley)
not even a top 5 hartley for me but all hartley is good.
9. The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down (d. Jan De Bont)
well directed set pieces, good chemistry between the leads, always been a regular comfort watch. they should've just
put a brick on the accelerator though.
8. Heavenly Creatures (d. Peter Jackson)
haven't seen it in like 15 years so take the ranking with a pinch of salt.
7. Chungking Express (d. Wong Kar-Wai)
haven't seen it in like 15 years so take the ranking with a pinch of salt.
6. The Secret of Roan Inish (d. John Sayles)
AKA
How Green Was My Island. just a super lovely rural irish fantasy with some bleak undercurrents.
5. River of Grass (d. Kelly Reichardt)
reichardt's debut is a riff on
Badlands and, as with malick's film, it's easily the funniest of her career. in turn it's probably my favourite.
4. Cemetery Man (d. Michele Soavi)
always nice when a hot regular customer turns up to make your dead-end job a little more interesting, although not if it means people start burning your phone books or stealing your murders.
3. The Invincibles (d. Dominik Graf)
missing link between christian petzold and michael mann?
2. Pulp Fiction (d. Quentin Tarantino)
glad i found a rare vhs rip on karagarga, i wish more people could watch this obscure gem.
1. Exotica (d. Atom Egoyan)
i always liked this but a recent rewatch cemented it as an all-time favourite. a film of such restrained desperation, the scene behind the club just kills me.
