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2000s |
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| Kill Bill | Uma Thurman's best. Tarantino's best. |
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Nineties |
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| The Pillow Book | (1997) Just one of the masterpieces by Peter Greenaway. |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | (1996) Mary Harron's portrait of Valerie Solanos, with a great performance by Lily Taylor. |
| Run Lola Run | (1999) Mainstream but nicely done German flick by Tom Twyker, with Franka Potente. |
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Eighties |
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| Near Dark | (1987) Kathryn Bigelow's underrated psychedelic vampire road movie. |
| River's Edge | (1986) Murder saga with Dennis Hopper, Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves. |
| Tchao Pantin | (1983) Gloomy French drama by Claude Berri, set in Paris' drug subculture, with Coluche in a rare dramatic role. |
| Kiss Daddy Good Night | (1987) Notable not so much for overall quality but for Uma Thurman's performance in her first movie role. |
| Anguish | Surprising, multi-layered overlooked slasher gem from Spanish art film director Bigas Luna. Homage to surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel. |
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Seventies |
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| Straw Dogs | (1971) Violent masterpiece by Sam Peckinpah, with Dustin Hoffman. |
| Panic in Needle Park | (1971) Al Pacino's disturbing, stark and touching excellent first movie, a tragedy of urban drug addiction. |
| The Little Girl who Lives Down the Lane | (1976) Controversial piece with Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen. |
| Cruising | (1980) Al Pacino. Interesting suspense thriller set in the hardcore gay scene. Notable title song "When I close my eyes I see blood". |
| The Tenant | Polanski suspense film themed around slow mental degradation, featuring Isabelle Adjani. |
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Sixties |
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| Blow-Up | (1967) Michelangelo Antonioni's ultimate mod-(ernist) flick, feat. Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles, Verushka. |
| Repulsion | (1965) Another captivating drama by Roman Polanski, with Catherine Deneuve. |
| The Collector | (1965) By William Wyler. Excellent British suspense character study, nominated for 2 academy awards, won 2 best actor awards in Cannes. |
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| Classic Cinematography |
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| The Night of the Hunter | (1955) Chilling thriller feat. Robert Mitchum, Lilian Gish. |
| Baby Doll | (1956) Controversial tragi-comedy feat. Karl Malden, Carroll Baker. |
| Night Must Fall | (1964) Albert Finney as a charming, boyish killer. |
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Early Cinematography |
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| The Blood of a Poet | (1930) Ahead-of-its-time surrealist avant garde film by Jean Cocteau. |
| Freaks | (1932) By Tod Browning.Touching portrait of life on the sideshows. Here is some excellent background information on the film's incredible cast. |
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B-Movies |
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| Vampyros Lesbos | By Jesse Franco, with Soledad Miranda. Great soundtrack. |
| She killed in Ecstasy | By Jesse Franco, with Soledad Miranda. |
| Performance | Bizarre, psychedelic, drug-inspired piece by Nicholas Roeg ("Don't Look Now"), feat. Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg. |
| Russ Meyer Films | Free-spirited 60s period appeal. |
| Candy | (1968) Starring Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Anita Pallenberg, Ringo Starr |
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| Documentaries |
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| Nanook of the North | (1922) Flaherty's feature documentary that changed film making |
| The man with a camera | Dziga Vertov (1929) |
| Nico Icon | 1995 documentary about the tragic muse of Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, and Jim Morrison. |
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