Darjeeling Limited is probably his most underrated film. People around that time were starting to mock his style and accuse him of just making the same film over and over again. It's the first film I ever drove an extended distance to see. The Wind That Shakes the Barley has gotten a lot more attention recently. It felt mostly forgotten after it came out.
Orlando, about 75 minutes. They get a lot of better movies overall. Children of Men is the tenth best film of the century so far.
It is about why we continue and why we endure, despite every reason to give up. Why did we make skyscrapers and the Mona Lisa and put people in space? Even among those of us who have chosen to not have children, the idea that we are building toward a better future persists. How would we act if that was taken away from us? Why shouldn't I put a brick through the other guy's windshield?
Only 8 lists so far. Not nearly enough to determine a winner. Making the thread and then refusing to make your own list is cowardly.
Fine: 1. The Master 2. Spring Breakers 3. There Will Be Blood 4. The Irishman 5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 6. Wet Hot American Summer 7. American Psycho 8. House of 1000 Corpses 9. The Tree of Life 10. Holy Motors
Honorables: The Act of Killing This is Not a Film Good Time The Rules of Attraction Once Upon a Time in Hollywood First Reformed (just watched) The Jackasses Superbad Punch Drunk Love Synecdoche New York In Bruges Royal Tenenbaums It Follows The Fabelmans In a Violent Nature (too new)
1. Mulholland Dr 2. The Tree of Life 3. There Will Be Blood 3. Synecdoche New York 4. The Master 5. Dogviile 6. The Wailing 7. Children of Men 8. Fish Tank 9. Certified Copy 10. Moonlight So many I still need to see. Really feel like I’m not thinking of some great foreign language films I’ve seen.
I'm starting to overthink this, so I'm just gonna roll with the below. Lots of tough cuts obviously. 20. The Grand Budapest Hotel 19. Mad Max: Fury Road 18. Burn After Reading 17. Under the Skin 16. Punch Drunk Love 15. Moonlight 14. Boyhood 13. Manchester by the Sea 12. The Social Network 11. Uncut Gems 10. Aftersun 9. Spring Breakers 8. Zodiac 7. No Country for Old Men 6. The Irishman 5. Synecdoche, New York 4. In the Mood for Love 3. There Will Be Blood 2. Mulholland Drive 1. The Master
@jkauf seems to be a fan too. If it is good enough to make your list I will try to get to it by spring break.
I find comedy is extremely localised, much more than any other genre. Comedy often doesn’t translate very well, even in English. A lot of the mid-00s American comedies that people love on here don’t work for me at all, I find them very unfunny, same with a lot of American sitcoms. If I were to make a list of my favourite comedies, they’d pretty much all be British, Irish or from New Zealand, and it’s not that I think we’re funnier people or that everybody should love these shows / films. It’s pretty rare I see a subtitled comedy that I think is really funny too. I think so much verbal comedy (as opposed to visual comedy, which does translate) is just heavily reliant on the specific culture it’s made in, whereas a melodrama or a love story or whatever can be more universal.
without a ton of thought and using a bias sorter 1. Zodiac 2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 3. Avatar: The Way of Water 4. No Country for Old Men 5. The Irishman 6. Punch-Drunk Love 7. Moonlight 8. Good Time 9. Dune/Dune Part Two 10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 11. The Darjeeling Limited 12. Mad Max: Fury Road 13. Children of Men 14. Manchester by the Sea 15. Synecdoche, New York 16. Shithouse 17. Collateral 18. Parasite 19. Adventureland 20. Everybody Wants Some!! 21. Nope 22. Forgetting Sarah Marshall 23. Gone in 60 Seconds 24. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 25. Casino Royale
I will never forget the Hollywood Video clerk who warned my mom not to rent Punch-Drunk Love because it was stupid and not a regular Adam Sandler movie. One of the handful of movies in high school that blew my mind.