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Zero Dark Thirty, 2012 Dir: Kathryn Bigelow Everyone seems to have an opinion on this, so why shouldn't I? The divide in opinion ab...

Witchfinder General, 1968 Dir: Michael Reeves The thing about any Vincent Price vehicle that I'm sure you've noticed is that if t...

Drama/Mex, 2006 Dir: Gerardo Naranjo Oh Meheeco. It's nice to know that your middle/upper-middle class late teens (or maybe earlier 2...

Mysterious Skin, 2004 Dir: Gregg Araki There's no real narrative uniqueness to this, per se, but what I really liked was the awkwardness...

Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner), 1974 Dir: Werner Herzog Like most of Herzog's d...

Morvern Callar, 2002 Dir: Lynne Ramsay It might be telling that Ramsay hasn't made a feature (well, her next film is coming out this yea...

L'Età di Cosimo de Medici (The Age of Medici), 1973 Dir: Roberto Rossellini I'm guessing that most of Rossellini's later "...

Underworld, 1927 Dir: Josef von Sternberg This was one of the first films ever to be open about gangsters, and it's certainly a von Ster...

Mikey and Nickey, 1976 Dir: Elaine May I don't know if it's me or the cinema world conspiring against most of them, but I'm not...

Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre), 1979 Dir: Werner Herzog Remake? Homage? Herzogian clusterfuck? I'm not really sure...

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?), 1970 Dir: Michael Fengler and Rainer Werner Fassbinder This was supposed to be the ...

Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939 Dir: John Ford In a banner year for Hollywood (in which Ford also directed Stagecoach ), it would be a tough decisio...

La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV), 1966 Dir: Roberto Rossellini In 1962, Rossellini declared that "c...

Gertrud, 1964 Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer So I've now seen all of the features that Dreyer did after he made The Passion of Jean of Arc (1...

L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad), 1961 Dir: Alain Resnais After watching this all the way through while trying tak...

牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (A Brighter Summer Day), 1991 Dir: Edward Yang You can watch film after film after film, and even at points become fed up with how...

The Fighter, 2010 Dir: David O. Russell I know there is a certain amount of predictability to the fight genre that makes it so appealing to ...

True Grit, 2010 Dir: Coen Bros. I think the Coen Brothers natural proclivity for quirky characters and dialogue really hurts them in a Weste...

Tron: Legacy Dir: Joseph Kosinski Woah. Watching this on the gigundo IMAX screen in 3D was a trip, and one hell of an experience. And if it...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 2010 Dir: Michael Apted You really have to have some strong children actors to pul...