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Blow OutTheir words
Blow Out is certainly one of De Palma’s finest.
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BrazilTheir words
When I first saw Brazil in the late ’80s, it hit me like a truck. It was such a powerful, bold vision, so joyous in its escapism and so crushing in its ultimate nihilism, that it left my teenage mind in tatters.
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The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieTheir words
First Luis Buñuel’s Un chien Andalou and L’age d’or, but then later, my favorite film of his, the 1972 masterpiece The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
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Eyes Without a FaceTheir words
Years later, I saw Eyes Without a Face and called my dad immediately. I told him the crucial fact he’d been missing, the actual name of the greatest horror film he had ever seen. I then agreed with him that, yes, it was a quite extraordinary film.
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HeadTheir words
Head is my favorite film that stars a musical artist, by some degree.
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A Hard Day’s NightTheir words
Head is my favorite film that stars a musical artist, by some degree. And yes, that includes the brilliant A Hard Day’s Night.
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Peeping TomTheir words
I had seen Peeping Tom two or three times before but finally watched it on the big screen when I was working in its locale. Michael Powell’s film had always haunted and intrigued me, but seeing the streets that I traversed every day on-screen from fifty years earlier had a darkly powerful effect on me.
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Le samouraïTheir words
Le samouraï is a film I return to again and again.
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WalkaboutTheir words
Walkabout is cinema as poetry.
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Two-Lane BlacktopTheir words
Instead, for the eleventh movie in my top ten, I would like to include a film that has become something of an intangible Magic Eye picture for me: Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop. There is no movie that I have watched more often in an attempt to unpeel and unravel it.