Ever since I purchased my MacBook Pro, thus starting fresh in the world of personal computers, I set out to manage my data properly and responsibly.
After organizing my files, I set out to expand my media vault. Below is the list of films (in alphabetical order) I have acquired over the past 4 months; some – dearly loved, others I have never seen (or even heard) before. My collection is significantly populated with art house/independent films, and I love it.
What do you say?
1 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 400 Blows
3 A Short Film About Killing
4 A Woman Under The Influence
5 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
6 Altered States
7 American Psycho
8 Ashes and Diamonds
9 Audition
10 Bad Lieutenant
11 Barton Fink
12 Beauty and the Beast
13 Being John Malkovich
14 Belle de Jour
15 Blade Runner
16 Blow Up
17 Boogie Nights
18 Breathless
19 Brick
20 Chinatown
21 Days of Heaven
22 Dazed and Confused
23 Dogville
24 Dr Strangelove
25 Drugstore Cowboy
26 El Topo
27 Element of Crime
28 Encounters at the End of the World
29 Epidemic
30 Eyes Wide Shut
31 Flight of the Red Balloon
32 Full Metal Jacket
33 Good Will Hunting
34 Grave of the Fireflies
35 Hannah and Her Sisters
36 Helvetica
37 In The Mood For Love
38 Inland Empire
39 Into The Wild
40 Jacob’s Ladder
41 Jean de Florette
42 John Carpenter’s Vampires (LOL, I know)
43 La Grande Illusion
44 La Notte
45 La Strada
46 Last House on the Left
47 Last Tango in Paris
48 L’Avventura
49 Lawrence of Arabia
50 Leaving Las Vegas
51 Lost in Translation
52 Masters of Horror, season 1
53 Million Dollar Baby
54 Nil By Mouth
55 North by Northwest
56 Notorious
57 Once Upon a Time in the West
58 Paprika
59 Rashomon
60 Rushmore
61 Safe
62 Scream of Stone
63 Sleeper
64 Stalker
65 Straw Dogs
66 Synedoche, NY
67 Terminator Trilogy (Heh)
68 The 39 Steps
69 The Belly of an Architect
70 The Color of Pomegranates
71 The Dark Knight
72 The Graduate
73 The Holy Mountain
74 The Seventh Continent
75 The Seventh Seal
76 The Spirit of the Beehive
77 Vertigo
78 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
79 Videodrome
80 When the Wind Blows
81 Wings of Desire
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Haven’t seen quite a few of those, what are your favorites?
The Seventh Seal is my favorite movie of all time. Then 8 1/2 (but I already own that on DVD, so its not in the list)
I havent seen a lot of these yet either – I knew about the vast majority, but others are totally new. I pretty much went berserk after art house
))) starting with the Wikipedia page for art house cinema, ha! Just went down the list and downloaded.
Blow Up by Antonioni is interesting!
Altered States is crazy (80s film though)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau’s! The original!) is be-a-u-ti-ful! lovely.
Holy Mountain is OFF the hook – every scene is more bizarre than the one before it. Jodorowsky really did something magic there.
In the Mood for Love is such a heartbreaking film, but beautiful and touching in ways I can’t explain!
You have great taste, I’m going to have to start renting movies from you now, as long as you don’t have rediculous late fees of course :p
What a great idea in these recession-laden times!
I’ve only seen 14 of these.
Being John Malkovich (one of my favorite movies ever)
Belle de Jour
Chinatown
Eye Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
Good Will Hunting
Grave of the Fireflies
Inland Empire (didn’t like this one much at all, David Lynch has lost it… Justin Theroux was the best part of this movie and he wasn’t in it nearly enough!)
Lawrence of Arabia
Lost in Translation
The Graduate
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo
Wings of Desire
My movie collection is quite extensive though. I could recommend you some but I don’t know what you like or have already seen. Chances are though if it’s a film I like, it’s probably art house cinema