THEBEAUTIFUL BLACK WIND & FILM OPTIMIST PRESENT
100 DAYS OF FILM
This page detailsrecent film reviews as well as one hundred films that I mosthighly recommend. I have chosen the movies on this list forreasons including: technical proficiency, appealing narrative,visual beauty, performance, philosophical wrangling and sounddesign. The films on this page are listed alphabetically, and notby rank, as I don't think that art is something that should bejudged through numbers.
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Dogville - Lars Von Trier
Kandahar - MohsenMakhmalbaf
The Hard Word -Scott Roberts
Storytelling - ToddSolondz
The Bank - RobertConnolly
The Boiler Room -Ben Younger
He Died With AFelafel In His Hand - Richard Lowenstein
M - Fritz Lang
Metal Skin -Geoffrey Wright
Mulholland Drive -David Lynch
Romance - CatherineBreillat
Sexy Beast -Jonathon Glazer
Series 7: TheContenders
David Lynch
Darren Aronofsky
Hal Hartley
Ray Lawrence
Richard Lowenstein
100 Days ofFilm
UPDATED 2009 LISTING
The Addiction - Abel Ferrara
After Dark, My Sweet - James Foley
Amateur - HalHartley
An Angel at My Table - Jane Camp ion
Australian Rules -Paul Goldman
Bedevil - Tracey Moffatt
Birdy - Alan Parker
Black Water - Andrew Traucki
Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
The Blairwitch Project - Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez II
Bliss - Ray Lawrence
Boogie Nights - PT Anderson
The Book of Life -Hal Hartley
Breaking the Waves - Lars Von Trier
Buffalo 66 - Vincent Gallo
The Cars that Ate Paris - Peter Weir
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
City of Lost Children - Jeunet and Caro
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Peter Greenaway
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Crash - David Cronenberg
Dancer In The Dark - Lars Von Trier
Dark City - Alex Proyas
Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
Delicatessen - Jeunet and Caro
The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Bunuel
Dogs in Space -Richard Lowenstein
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch
Ed Wood - Tim Burton
Eraserhead - DavidLynch
Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
A Fistful Of Flies -Monica Pelizzari
Flirt - Hal Hartley
Flirting - John Duigan
The General - Buster Keaton
Ghosts of the Civil Dead - John Hillcoat
Happiness - Todd Solondz
Happy Together - Wong Kar Wai
The Hour of The Wolf - Ingmar Bergman
How I Killed My Father - Anne Fontaine
The Hudsucker Proxy - Joel and Ethan Coen
In the Company of Men - Neil Labute
Interiors - Woody Allen
Jesus of Montreal - Denys Arcand
Joan of Arc - Luc Besson
Just Before Nightfall - Claude Chabrol
Kandahar - MohsenMakhmalbaf
Kids - Larry Clark
Kika - Pedro Almodovar
Killing Zoe - Robert Rodriguez
La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz
Lantana - RayLawrence
The Last Temptation of Christ - Martin Scorsese
Less Than Zero - Marek Kanievska
Life - LawrenceJohnston
Lost Highway - David Lynch
Lovers on the Ninth Bridge - Leos Carax
Magnolia - PT Anderson
Manhattan Murder Mystery - Woody Allen
The Manxman - Alfred Hitchcock
Nadja - Michael Almereyda
Network - Sidney Lumet
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Michael Radford
No Country For Old Men - Coen Bros
Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau
Oleanna - David Mamet
Onegin - Martha Fiennes
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Tom Tykwer
Pi - Darren Aronofsky
Privilege - Yvonne Rainer
The Replacement Killers - Antoine Fuqua
Requiem for a Dream- Darren Aronofsky
Romeo + Juliet - Baz Luhrmann
Romper Stomper -Geoffrey Wright
Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock
Simple Men - Hal Hartley
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton
Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky
Strike - Sergei Eisenstein
Sweetie - Jane Campion
The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
Ten Canoes - Rolf de Heer
Them - David Moreau
There Will Be Blood - P T Anderson
Three Monkeys - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Thin Red Line - Terrance Mallick
The Tracker - Rolf de Heer
Three Colors: White - Krystof Kieslowski
The Trial - Orson Welles
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - David Lynch
Under the Sand - Francois Ozon
2001 - Stanley Kubrick
The UnbelievableTruth - Hal Hartley
Walkabout - Nicholas Roeg
Way Down East - D W Griffith
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
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