- Full Metal Jacket
- The Prestige
- The Wolfman (1941)
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Far Country
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
- Death of A Cyclist
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home
- The Bourne Legacy
- Lone Star
- La Ronde
- Wild Strawberries
- Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
- Carnage
- The Children’s Hour
- Satantango
- The Ref
- Becky Sharp
- Madagascar 3- Europe's Most Wanted
- The Duellists
- La Vie de Boheme
- Mr Smith Goes To Washington
- Savages
- Rashomon
- The Passion of Anna
- Ted
- Nil By Mouth
- Body Double
- Premium Rush
- A Royal Affair
- Meek's Cutoff
- Cashback
- The Deep Blue Sea
- Nighthawks
- Johnny Guitar
- In the Land of Blood and Honey
- The Godfather
- The Godfather, Part 11
- Samsara
- Into the Abyss
- We Have A Pope
- Monsieur Lazhar
- Skyfall
- Lincoln
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Argo
- Amour
- The Lady Eve
- Django Unchained
- The Exterminating Angel
There
are lots of classics here always worth watching, like The Godfather
films, Wild Strawberries, Mr Smith Goes To Washington and Full Metal
Jacket. Some old films I watched for the first time and liked were:
Jeanne
Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Death
of A Cyclist
The
Duellists
La
Vie de Boheme
Of
the new(ish) films I’d especially recommend:
Jeff,
Who Lives at Home
Into
the Abyss
Amour
Django
Unchained
(These
last two are the not the very best work from Haneke and Tarantino,
but that’s only because they’ve set such high standards in the
past. They still count as excellent films)
Also
good were:
A
Royal Affair
Argo
In
the Land of Blood and Honey
Meek's
Cutoff
Once
Upon A Time in Anatolia
Skyfall
Ted
The
Bourne Legacy
The
Deep Blue Sea
Argo was good, but it wasn’t as tense as I’d hoped and I think Ben Affleck’s previous two films are better. Meek's Cutoff was good, but the poor ending undid much of the work done by the main storyline. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia was good, but it too didn’t fully live up to its reputation.
The Deep Blue Sea was the first Terence Davies film I’ve really liked
Lincoln
and Beasts of the Southern Wild were the biggest disappointments. The Dark Knight Rises
had a great ending but overall was just ‘quite good’ and thus the
weakest of the three in that series.
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