Films T.S. Has Not Seen
You probably won't like most of these, but each of them is valuable from a filmmaking perspective.
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- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerAnonymousChristine CynnStarsAnwar CongoHerman KotoSyamsul ArifinA documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.You just have to see this, as a filmmaker. Greatest documentary ever made by a long shot. One of the only films ever made that creates a new genre unto itself.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.Heeeeer's Johnny!
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsKim Hye-jaWon BinJin GooA mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.Excellent Korean murder-mystery drama.
- DirectorSebastian SchipperStarsLaia CostaFrederick LauFranz RogowskiA young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.One take. Two hours, 15 mins.
- DirectorPen-Ek RatanaruangStarsTadanobu AsanoSinitta BoonyasakTakashi MiikeA suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.Non-actor is female lead. Her sister, the supporting female role, is an actor.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong director, who likes to do many, many takes; super 1960s vibe, Tony Leung is one of the greatest living actors - you can learn a thing or two from this guy. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Get a load of those sets. He has several other masterpieces including Chungking Express and 2046, which is in my top-10.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsHideaki ItôMasami NagasawaShôta SometaniAfter failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.This Japanese director has done several good goofy occupational-triumphant-loser comedies.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoKim Sang-kyungKim Roe-haIn a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.Considered the second best Korean thriller after Oldboy. Kang-ho Song (the guy with the big face) is maybe the greatest actor working today. Watch and learn.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsHayato IchiharaShûgo OshinariAyumi ItoThe problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.One of my favorite Japanese directors - this is one of the films that got me into Asian cinema. Hana & Alice is also good.
- DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsSol Kyung-guMoon So-riAhn Nae-sangAn irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.One of my top 5, and one of the hardest films to watch. Chang-dong Lee is the greatest Korean writer/director working today. His "Burning" may be more your speed.
- DirectorLee Hae-junStarsJeong Jae-yeongJung Ryeo-wonYeong-seo ParkA failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.One of my all-time fav Korean films. Really original, goofy but also poignant. Tom Hanks' "Cast away" is a lame, humorless remake of this film.
- DirectorStephen ChowStarsStephen ChowWei ZhaoYat-Fei WongA young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.Stephen Chow (who made Kung Fu Hustle) pretty much invented his own brand of deadpan-dumbass-comedy, which they call "Mo lei tau" (makes no sense) in Cantonese. Also dig his earlier ones like "King of Comedy" with the lovely Karen Mok.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.From David Lean (who made Lawrence of Arabia).
- DirectorKeiichi KobayashiStarsRino HigaEma SakuraEmma SakuraNatsuko Yotsuya (Ema Sakura) is a teenager and she is also known as Bon.She lives in a town and has a friend, Miyu-chan, who lives with her boyfriend in Tokyo. Miyu-chan though is abused by her boyfriend. To bring back her friend back, Natsuko and her childhood friend Rintaro Tomoda (Mahiro Takasugi), also known as Lin, go to Tokyo together. With the help of a man, who they met through an internet forum for "boys' love" manga fans, they head to Miyu-chan's house.Quirky weird super low budget Japanese film. This guy had a career in advertising and then started making this stuff. He probably has like twelve fans but I'm one of them. This is about as much as you can accomplish with zero budget and "first-time" actors.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.Kusturica's epic Yugoslavia comedy/action/tragedy film from when the Bosnian war was still going on, if you're curious. These guys are all theater actors and it shows -- all three leads are chewing the shit out of the scenery, but in a really entertaining way. I pretty much learned to speak Serbian by watching this six times before I went there.
- DirectorAndrew LauAlan MakStarsAndy LauTony Leung Chiu-waiAnthony Chau-Sang WongA story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.Greatest Hong Kong action flick. Tony Leung again.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsBae DoonaArata IuraItsuji ItaoA life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.Koreeda is probably the greatest Japanese director working now, and wonderful Korean actor Doona Bae. This film is not as stupid or weird as the concept looks. His "Like Father, Like Son" is also amazing, but more for middle-aged geezers.
- DirectorSatoshi KonStarsJunko IwaoRica MatsumotoShinpachi TsujiA pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.Great, trippy 90s anime from the genius Satoshi Kon.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsTakahiro NishijimaHikari MitsushimaSakura AndôA bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.Epic hilarious masterpiece from Sion Sono, who pumps out about two feature films a year, sort of lo-fi indy-gore-comedy, with his merry band of filmmaking guerrillas. This one is lighter on the gore and probably the greatest love story in ever filmed.
- DirectorKang Hyeong-cheolStarsYoo Ho-jeongShim Eun-kyungJin Hee-kyungSeven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.Classic entertaining Korean 1980s nostalgia-comedy with great fight scenes. Just check out the fight scene on youtube instead of watching the whole thing.
- DirectorMakoto ShinkaiStarsKenji MizuhashiYoshimi KondouSatomi HanamuraTold in three interconnected segments, Takaki tells the story of his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.I like this guy's visual style; he pretty much paints modern Japan.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph BellamyA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.I watch this alone with a couple glasses of wine every Christmas. Yep. Dan Aykroyd in a filthy santa suit, Eddie Murphy at his peak, and Jamie Lee Curtis' boobs at theirs.
- DirectorWerner HerzogDmitry VasyukovStarsWerner HerzogGennady SolovievAnatoly BlumeiA documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.One of the three best Werner Herzog documentaries. Spoiler: they are not actually... nevermind.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.Tight, hip, and plotty but sweary, violent Serbian 90s gangster coming of age story. Sort of the Serbian Trainspotting/Goodfellas.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsLim Soo-jungRainPark Byeong-eunA girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls.Oldboy director -- quirky + good visuals.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsKim Ki-dukOh Yeong-suJong-ho KimA boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.Very buddhist filmmaking approach, from Kim Ki-duk. This film is basically a powerful, simple fable.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor MackayA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.A lot of people like this. It's pretty interesting. Non-actors and Scarlett Johannson naked in Scotland drinking people's blood and stuff.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.Greatest David Lynch film.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Totally engrossing mega-production.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsMaribel VerdúGael García BernalDaniel Giménez CachoIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.Probably the most satisfying Mexican road trip.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski go apeshit in the Amazon. Made in much the same way as Apocalypse Now and Monos, and in a similar climate.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.Realist black and white French classic war film shows what you can do with mere reality. Most filmmakers regard this as a benchmark to emulate.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsDoru AnaMonica BarladeanuAlina BerzunteanuMr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.Super uplifting Romanian-wave flick about death and human dignity.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsKirsten DunstCharlotte GainsbourgKiefer SutherlandTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.Cinematic sci-fi quaaludes with Kirsten Dunst directed by that fuckwit Lars Von Trier. Dogville with Nicole Kidman is also good.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.Filmmaker's film. Gimicky but pacey af.
- DirectorLixin FanStarsChanghua ZhangYang ZhangSuqin ChenA couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.Strong, immersive low budget doc on China.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Spike.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Fellini.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.Hitch.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsMarcos HernándezAnapola MushkadizBertha RuizMarcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.Fucked up low budget Mexican film; non actors.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAnamaria MarincaLaura VasiliuVlad IvanovA woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.Brutal Romanian wave. I don't see you getting through ten minutes of this, tbh.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.The original 1990 first series of the TV version is a must-see.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsSong Kang-hoLee Byung-hunJung Woo-sungThe story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.Fun-as-hell Korean "western" with Kang-ho Song. Sort of a Manchurian Mad Max.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGeorge ClooneyNatascha McElhoneUlrich TukurA troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.Personally, I think the Soderberg version is great and underrated. The 1972 original by Russian director Tarkovsky is an arthouse classic.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.The Holy Bible of filmmaking, the Holy Grail of films. The main accomplishment of the film is that it takes you into another world like few films ever have, but it's not a real world, it's the Vietnam of the public imagination in the 60s-70s, when people were hearing about the war and imagining what it was like and gossiping about it. Not one of the cast or crew had ever set foot in Vietnam, and still haven't to this day. It's not about the reality, it's about the perception of reality.
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert ForsterVerna BloomPeter BonerzA TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- DirectorHideaki AnnoShinji HiguchiStarsHiroki HasegawaYutaka TakenouchiSatomi IshiharaJapan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.