Movie Magic
Below is a list of lesser-known movies that I recommend:
- Pi - Faith in Chaos (Darren Aronofsky director) 1998
- Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish director) 1999
- Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton director) 1996
- Run Lola Run (German, Tom Tykwer director) 1998
- The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy director) 2005
- Gattaca (Andrew Niccol director) 1997
- Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze director) 1999
- Kundun (Martin Scorsese director) 1997
- Sideways (Alexander Payne director) 2005
- Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks director) 1991
- Three Kings (David O. Russell director) 1999
- Ulee’s Gold (Victor Nunez director) 1999
- Hideous Kinky (Gillies Mackinnon director) 1999
Below is a list of some of my favorite classics:
- Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen directors) 1996
- Gran Turino (Clint Eastwood director) 2009
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt director) 1965
- The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer director) 1962
- The Third Man (Carol Reed director) 1949
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (French: Jacques Demy director) 1964
- The Hurt Locker (Catherine Bigelow director) 2009
Below is a list of recommended guilty pleasures:
- GI Jane (Ridley Scott director) 1997
- T2: Judgment Day (James Cameron director) 1991
- Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog director) 2007
- Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox director) 1956
- Fight Club (David Fincher director) 1996
- The Truman Show (Peter Weir director) 1998 or EDtv (Ron Howard director) 1999
- Pirate Radio (Richard Curtis director) 2009
- The Emerald Forest (John Boorman director) 1985
- Napolean Dynamite (Jared and Jerusha Hess directors) 2004
- Charlie Wilson’s War (Mike Nichols director) 2007