The Weirdest Movies Blog-a-Thon

 

Ronyell at The Surreal Movies and TV Blog has created a blog-a-thon devoted entirely to the weirdest movies ever seen. Here are the rules:

1) List up to 5 or 10 of the weirdest movies that you have ever seen. If you want to list over 10 movies or below 5 movies, then you are free to do so.

2) You don't necessarily have to list your favorite movies or movies you even like. Just movies that you think are weird.

3) Use the banner at the top of this page in put into your post.

4) This blog-a-thon runs from April 23rd - May 20th, so you need to send your submissions in by May 20th. After that, I will make a special post where I will list all the bloggers who had participated in this blog-a-thon!

5) If you are interested in joining this blog-a-thon, then please feel free to leave your link to your post here or tweet me (@rabbitearsblog)

6) If you are participating in this blog-a-thon through Twitter or you want to let your followers know about this blog-a-thon, then please use the hashtag #weirdestmoviesblogathon so that way, I will know who's participating in this blog-a-thon.

Well, for anyone that has read this blog know that I watch a lot of weird shit and I praise a lot of weird-ass shit. So here’s 10 films that really fucked me up big time:

1. Un Chien Andalou

I think when it comes to weird movies, no one does it better than the master surrealist Luis Bunuel as he is the definition of weird. In this collaboration with another legend of surrealism in Salvador Dali comes a film that defies description. The 16-minute short film is something that can’t be unseen once it is seen as it has no plot as it’s more about images. Still, what Bunuel and Dali do create are moments that would inspire many filmmakers in the years to come as well as the idea of “what the fuck” moments that still remains vital and dangerous.

2. Daisies

There’s just some films in the history of cinema that defies description and this film by Vera Chytilova that is widely considered to be a landmark film of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s is truly out of this world. It’s a film about these two women named Marie who just create havoc while being wined and dined by all of these rich men and just fuck things up all along the way. There are these moments in the film that are baffling to watch yet the sense of anarchy that these two women do just adds to the enjoyment of this film as it’s something film buffs need to see.

3. The Holy Mountain

There’s weird and then there’s Alejandro Jodorowsky yet unlike Luis Bunuel, Jodorowsky is more concerned with spirituality and fear than the more social experiments of Bunuel. This 1973 cult classic is a story of a thief who encounter these images of spirituality as he finds salvation in this strange alchemist who makes claims about enlightenment. It is a film with wondrous images and incredible art direction while it is also a film that has moments that are fucked up. Notably the idea of a man taking a shit and the turd becomes gold as it adds to these strange questions of enlightenment.

4. House

This Japanese horror film about a group of young school girls who go to the home of one of the schoolgirls’ late aunt as strange shit happens. One of them involving a white cat and other strange shit that occurs in the house while there are a lot of things that is just bonkers. A severed head biting a girl’s butt, a killer piano, and the ghost of an aunt as it’s just a film that is just fucking insane. Yet, it is one of these horror films that is also so goddamn fun to watch.

5. Eraserhead

I was in my 20s when I first saw this film and I had no idea what to think of it then and it’s still one of the weirdest films I had seen. Having been familiar with Lynch’s work from Blue Velvet and beyond, I had no idea what to expect from this film as it’s still one of these films that defies description. It is a film about this man who reunites with his old girlfriend who reveals that she has a new baby yet the baby is a strange-looking mutant that has its charm. The fact that it took years to make and it was a film made with a limited budget is proof of Lynch’s talents as well as bring surrealism to a new level. Notably in the films he would make in the years to come yet it’s this film that often brings me back as this or Mulholland Dr. are often considered to be his best film in my opinion.

6. The Peanut Butter Solution

For anyone that grew up watching the Disney Channel in the 1980s probably will remember this film and as a kid born in the 80s. This film fucked me up. It was scary as fuck as it’s about a kid who goes into some house and gets so spooked out that he loses his hair. Yet, he would find a way to get his hair back thanks to some ghosts and he succeeds but some awful shit occurs involving some evil criminals as it leads into the world of child labor and other fucked up shit. This is a film that is in dire need to be rediscovered.

7. Braindead

I first saw this in my 20s when it was on IFC (when it used to show films uncut and uncensored) as I had no idea what to expect. I knew it was from Peter Jackson who was already hot with the Lord of the Rings trilogy and I saw this before Return of the King was to come out. It is fucking insane. A low-budget zombie movie about a guy whose over-protective mother was eaten by infected creature and then she becomes a zombie and so did many other people. That wasn’t the fucked up part. What was the most fucked up thing about that entire film? I only have 2 words: Zombie Baby!

8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I saw this in the late 90s as I wasn’t sure what to think of it as I was only 18-19 when I first saw it. Years later, I began to understand what Terry Gilliam was trying to do in his take on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel as well as capture the fall of the 1960s. The elements of psychedelic imagery and surrealism definitely captures the spirit of Thompson’s novel as does the performances of Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as it adds to the offbeat elements of the film.

9. Raw

A recent discovery that I saw a few years ago is something I didn’t expect as it isn’t this conventional horror film. Yet, I was troubled by the fact that it’s a film about a young woman who attends veterinary school and has to endure a week-long hazing ritual involving red meat as she is a vegetarian. It is quite an original film that plays into the dangers of a woman being forced to do things against her will. Even to the point as she would gain rashes and other disturbing appetites as it was definitely weird up till the end as it just adds to the sense of horror that is in the film.

10. Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar

The most recent film I had seen in the past few months and I’m still baffled into what the fucking-fuck did I see. It’s a vacation comedy with a bit of suspense and the musical yet I’m just barely scratching the surface into the film as a whole. It’s about these two life-long friends who go on a vacation at a resort in Florida where they meet a man whose job is to carry a mission for an evil albino woman and things suddenly get stranger. Written and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo as the titular characters with Wiig also playing the evil albino woman, the film feature things that are just bonkers. Jamie Dornan as an assassin who falls in love and dances, Damon Wayans Jr. as an agent who is terrible at hiding, a young Asian kid who sings Barbra Streisand early in the film, Morgan Freeman as a talking crab, and this is just a sample of the insanity that this film has. It’s stupid, ridiculous, and fucking odd yet it’s so goddamn hilarious.

© thevoid99 2021

Against the Crowd Blog-a-thon 2020

It’s August which means that it’s time once again the annual Against the Crowd Blog-a-thon hosted by Wendell of Dell on Movies. Having participated in this event for the past five years, it’s a chance to go against everyone and be on your own as it’s something I like to do as my contributions in these past years have been really fun as anyone who hasn’t participated should cite my contributions from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Here are the rules with a few updates for this year’s edition:

• Pick one movie “everyone” loves (the more iconic, the better). That movie must have score of 75% or more on rottentomatoes.com (or at least 7.5 on imdb.com). Tell us why you hate it.

• Pick one movie that “everyone” hates (the more notorious, the better). That movie must have a score of 35% or less on rottentomatoes.com (or 4.0 or less on imdb.com). Tell us why you love it.

• Include the tomato meter scores of both movies.

• Use one of the banners in this post, or feel free to create your own (just include all the pertinent details), or just mention this blogathon if using an audio or visual medium.

• Let us know what two movies you intend on writing, vlogging, posting, or podcasting about in one of the following ways: Comment on this or any ACB 2020 post on this site, tweet me @w_ott3, or e-mail me at dellott@yahoo.com.

• Publish your post on any day from Friday, August 21 through Sunday, August 23, 2020, and include a link to this announcement. If you’re a podcaster or YouTuber that is interested in participating just talk about your chosen movies during your closest podcast and/or video to those dates and mention that you are taking part in this blogathon.

• If posting on social media, use the hashtag #AgainstTheCrowd2020

I don’t understand the adulation that James L. Brooks have other than his work as a producer as he does deserve some praise for his work on television as shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons, Taxi, and other shows while launching the careers of filmmakers such as Wes Anderson and Cameron Crowe. Other than that, why do people think he’s a big deal in the world of film? He’s only made one film that I liked that is Broadcast News which was a different film in comparison to everything else he did. Other than that, a lot of them have a lot of overwrought sentimentality that is just sappy and manipulative. He’s only made six films in his career so far yet half of them have not been well-received as the last film he did in How Do You Know was trashed by the critics and was a massive box office flop. Spending $120 million for a lame rom-com plus $30 million in marketing is just irresponsible.

Having already trashed As Good As It Gets back in 2016, it’s time to trash the film that made him famous and won a bunch of Oscars including Best Picture. It’s a drama about a relationship between mother and daughter that spans for 30 years as it is full of drama and all sorts of shit with Shirley MacLaine being possessive prompting her daughter in Debra Winger to rebel and wanting a life of her own despite the fact that the man she married is a total pussy and cheats on her as she would cheat on him. MacLaine would go into a relationship with Jack Nicholson that is all over the place where it wants to be funny but the humor feels forced while it gets extremely sappy towards the end. This is the film that beat The Big Chill and The Right Stuff for Best Picture and Brooks beat the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Mike Nichols for Best Director? Oscars definitely fucked up that year.

In his lifetime, Chris Farley has only been in two films that were well-received as a lot of the films he did weren’t exactly favorites with the critics though there were a few that did like his approach to physical comedy. Yet, the characters he played are these naïve, well-meaning, underachieving slackers who are actually kind people despite the fact they also have a temper. Farley knew his limits but he was good at what he did and knew how to bring the laughs. In this 1997 film directed by Dennis Dugan who also had a career of poorly-received films despite such films like Problem Child, Brain Donors, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Saving Silverman that are actually really good films. This film about a white orphan boy who is raised by ninjas as he is eager to be this legendary Great White Ninja yet also aspires to be revered like his adopted older brother. When an American woman comes to the monastery asking for help, Farley travels to Beverly Hills to help her and hilarity ensues.

The film also features Chris Rock as a bellboy who is amazed by Farley’s ninja skills as he is eager to become a ninja as the scenes with Farley and Rock are a joy to watch while Robin Shou does a great supporting performance as Farley’s adopted older brother who is surprisingly quite pretty when he’s dressed up like a woman. The laughs never stop as it often finds a way to be funny with Farley also showing he has range as he is someone that knows that he’s not as skilled as other great ninjas but has a lot of heart. It’s a film that needs to be re-evaluated yet it does get praise from one of cinema’s great actors in Christian Bale.

© thevoid99 2020

Against the Crowd Blog-a-Thon 2019

It’s time once again for the annual tradition that is the Against the Crowd Blog-a-Thon which has become this annual tradition every August hosted by Wendell of Dell on Movies. Having been an active contributor to the blog-a-thon in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. I decided to participate once again as here are the rules:

1. Pick one movie “everyone” loves (the more iconic, the better). That movie must have score of 75% or more on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you hate it.

2. Pick one movie that “everyone” hates (the more notorious, the better). That movie must have a score of 35% or less on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you love it.

3. Include the tomato meter scores of both movies.

4. Use one of the banners in this post, or feel free to create your own (just include all the pertinent details).

5. Let us know what two movies you intend on writing about in one of the following ways: Comment on this or any ACB 2019 post on this site, Tweet me @w_ott3, E-mail me: dellott@yahoo.com.

6. Publish your post on any day from Friday, August 23 through Sunday, August 25, 2019 (tighter schedule this year), and include a link to this announcement. If you’re a podcaster or YouTuber that is interested in participating just talk about your chosen movies during your closest podcast and/or video to those dates and mention that you are taking part in this blogathon. You could also just tweet about it!

By the way, should a movie you select not have a grade on rottentomatoes.com, use a score of at least 7.5 on imdb.com for ones you hate and less than 4.0 for ones you love.

On Monday, the 26th, I will publish a wrap-up post which will include a link to all entries. Now go find some movies to disagree with us on!

Let’s take Goodfellas out of the conversation for a discussion about this film as let’s talk about the other films that were nominated for Best Picture. Awakenings was a damn good drama that never was Oscar-bait driven as it was a more low-key drama that featured high-caliber performances from Robin Williams and Robert de Niro. Ghost is a supernatural romantic drama that still holds up as a tearjerker as well as being a film that explores grief and making peace with it. The Godfather Part III was definitely flawed in a few bits of the narrative as well as the casting that includes Sofia Coppola as Mary Corleone though let’s be happy that she’s chosen a better profession in the world of film as a writer/director. If Goodfellas wasn’t going to win and would’ve lost to either Awakenings or Ghost, I wouldn’t have a problem with it at all. Then there’s the film that did win the Oscar for Best Picture… ugh…

I first saw the film on TV either when I was 11 or 12 as I found myself bored by it and I felt the title was totally misleading at the time as I wanted to see Kevin Costner dancing with wolves and he never does. Years later as I grasped upon more knowledge on films and had an understanding of storytelling. I found myself baffled more about why this film beat fucking Goodfellas. It’s got nice visuals and some soaring music by John Barry but I found the story to be uninspiring while Costner’s direction doesn’t really do much to make it more compelling. I found myself not really caring for the main character and his changes while there are also elements in the narrative that doesn’t do much to establish the cavalry and their own motivations. It’s a film that is mainly style over substance and I’m also bothered by the fact that the film is considered a western which isn’t exactly true since there aren’t many cowboys nor are there any kind of conflicts involving outsiders or those who are affiliated with the law. It’s a film that hasn’t aged any better and one I still have no desire to revisit as it’s just a total bore.

While Ernest R. Dickerson is known mainly for his work as a cinematographer for Spike Lee during the late 80s/early 1990s, he has made a solid career as a filmmaker starting with 1992’s Juice. His sophomore feature in this 1994 thriller about a homeless man who is saved by a mysterious man during a suicide attempt as gives the man a job as a hunting guide. Yet, what the homeless doesn’t realize is that he’s the prey and all of these rich men including a rich man’s son are tasked to hunt him for their own sick game of pleasure. It’s an exhilarating thriller that never takes itself seriously while the premise itself should never work but it does. Plus, to have Ice-T as the prey who has to fend off the likes of Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, Charles S. Dutton, and F. Murray Abraham. What more could you ask? Oh, and there’s William McNamara as Abraham’s pussy son as he’s the one person that is oddly miscast.

It’s a film that doesn’t get a lot of love but it’s so fucking cool. Plus, it has these cool moments with Rutger Hauer leading the charge while Gary Busey does this nice monologue about hunting and in one entire take. A lesser filmmaker would try to cut it and maintain that sense of rhythm but Dickerson is much smarter than that as he knows that if Busey is doing a monologue. Just shoot it in one entire fucking take.

© thevoid99 2019

Against the Crowd Blog-a-Thon 2018

What is now becoming an annual tradition every August of the year is the Against the Crowd Blog-a-thon hosted by Wendell of Dell on Movies for this year’s edition. Having participated three times already in 2015, 2016, and last year’s edition, I have decided to participate for this year’s event as it’s just so fun to do. Here are the rules:

1. Pick one movie that "everyone" loves (the more iconic, the better). That movie must have a score of 75% or more on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you hate it.

2. Pick one movie that "everyone" hates (the more notorious, the better). That movie must have a score of 35% or less on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you love it.

3. Include the tomato meter scores of both movies.

4. Use one of the banners in this post, or feel free to create your own.

5. Let us know what two movies you intend on writing about in one of the following ways: Comment on this or any ACB 2018 post on this site Tweet me @w_ott3 E-mail me: dellott@yahoo.com

6. Publish your post on any day from Monday August 20 through Sunday August 26, 2018.

A new rule is added as it relates to films that doesn’t have a Rotten Tomatoes score where a film that has a score from the IMDB higher than 7.5 and lower than 4.0 can be selected. Here is what I’m picking:

Anyone who has read my blog know that a lot of the films I review are foreign films as I’m often known for giving foreign films positive reviews. If one was to ask me my opinion on Fernando Trueba’s 1992 film Belle Epoque that introduced Penelope Cruz to international audiences. My response would be that the movie sucked. Why would I dislike a period romantic film from Spain that didn’t just feature Cruz in one of her early roles but also future international stars like Ariadna Gil and Maribel Verdu? Well… It’s one of those films that I saw in my mid-teens as like any other kid. I stay up watching films late at night just to see boobs. The film did have Gil topless but I was disappointed by the lack of nudity from Cruz who was becoming a big star. Years later as I had acquired a grasp of what cinema is, I re-watched it just to see if it was any good as I wasn’t impressed by it the first time.

In that re-watch, I found the whole film to be very boring and too safe for my tastes. It’s really the kind of film that is more of an awards-bait kind of film set in the early 1930s just before the emergence of the Spanish Civil War where a young soldier hides at the home of an old man in the country and falls for his four daughters where he would eventually aim for the youngest played by Cruz. It’s got all of the things expected in an awards-bait kind of film and despite the performances of Cruz, Gil, and Verdu. I don’t remember anything else as I was more appalled by the fact that this was the film that won not just a bunch of Goyas (Spain’s equivalent to the Oscars) over a much better film in Jamon Jamon by Bigas Luna that also starred Cruz and her future husband Javier Bardem. This was the film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film over Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. Ugh…

For every film that takes itself way too seriously, there has to be a counterbalance and what better counterbalance for that in one of the most ridiculous films of the 2000s. Written, directed, and starring Steve Oedenkerk comes a kung fu spoof film where Oedenkerk puts himself in the 1976 kung fu film Tiger and Crane Fist where it is about a guy who is the Chosen One as he is trying to stop an evil madman who has re-named himself Betty. It’s silly as it involves a CGI cow trying to stop the Chosen One, gopher-chucks, a tongue with a face, a mysterious evil council, and a master who likes to listen to pop and hip-hop as he thinks ‘Nsync is the bomb (they are). Oedenkerk a few years ago announced a sequel though nothing hasn’t emerged as I’m sure myself and many fans of the film are still waiting.

Related: Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist

© thevoid99 2018

Against the Crowd Blog-a-thon 2017

It’s time once again for the Against the Crowd Blog-a-thon hosted by Wendell of Dell on Movies and KG of KG's Movie Rants. Having participated in 2015 and last year’s edition. It’s time once again to do another one as here are the rules:

1. Pick one movie that "everyone" loves (the more iconic, the better). That movie must have a score of 75% or more on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you hate it.

2. Pick one movie that "everyone" hates (the more notorious, the better). That movie must have a score of 35% or less on rottentomatoes.com. Tell us why you love it.

3. Include the tomato meter scores of both movies.

4. Use one of the banners in this post, or feel free to create your own.

5. Let us know what two movies you intend on writing about in one of the following ways:

Comment on this post Comment on KG's Movie Rants Tweet me @w_ott3 Tweet KG @KGsMovieRants1

6. Publish your post on any day from Monday August 14 through Friday August 20, 2017.

Here is what I’m offering:

I don’t understand the hoopla over Amy Schumer. I tried to watch some of her standup comedy shows and I don’t think she’s funny. Even in interviews or red carpets, she will say something that is funny and I’m baffled into thinking “was this supposed to be funny?” I have nothing against plus-sized women trying to show they’re sexy as there are some like Ashley Graham and Iskra Lawrence but Schumer is not one of them. Yet, she isn’t the only reason why I’m not fond of Trainwreck which she co-wrote and starred in as some of the reasons it’s not very good is due to its director Judd Apatow. Though Apatow has made great comedies in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, it seems like he is trying to become something more important than other comedy filmmakers by having his films be timed at over two-hours as those two films as well as Funny People and This is 40 do the same in going over two hours which is too much to do for comedies.

Though Trainwreck is a bit shorter than his last two films, it is clear that Apatow crams too much into its 124-minute running time in order to get audiences to laugh where it just feels forced and not engaging enough to be invested into this story about this young woman who finds love but has trouble trying to stay monogamous. Despite the ensemble cast that include the likes of Bill Hader, Brie Larson, and Tilda Swinton, they’re not given much to do as it’s all about Amy Schumer and the appearances from LeBron James and John Cena as the latter isn’t funny in this film. Plus, it wants to be dramatic and it wants the audience to sympathize with Schumer’s lifestyle but her character is completely pathetic and her attempts to be funny are terrible. Part of it is due to Apatow who seriously needs to hire an editor who should tell him what to cut out and try to make something shorter and to the point. Jacques Tati may have gotten away with making a 124-minute comedy with Playtime but at least that film was funny and had a great commentary on the fallacies of modernism.

The 1990s admittedly was not a good decade to be Chevy Chase. Not just for the fact that he was in some bad and mediocre films but also had his career nearly killed when he was given his own late-night talk show that sank quickly after it aired. Yet, there is one film that he did that isn’t as bad as people think it is as it’s just this very funny comedy that is quite out there but all with good reason. Directed, co-written, and starring Dan Aykroyd as a reclusive yet offbeat judge who likes to the take the law in his own hands in this remote town in the middle of New Jersey. Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, the late great Taylor Negron, and Bertila Dimas take a wrong turn and is stopped by the late great John Candy and everything goes to hell in very funny ways. Add Candy in another role as his sister and Aykroyd as a twin, overgrown baby plus an insane rollercoaster that kills people, and an appearance from one of Aykroyd’s favorite hip-hop acts in the Digital Underground with 2Pac. The result is just an insane film though flawed film. It’s got some spotty moments as some of the moments involving Chase are a bit uninspired but Aykroyd, Moore, and Candy are the ones who keep the film fun to watch.

© thevoid99 2017

My Movie Alphabet Vol. 2

Mette of the Mettel Ray blog has just turned 7 as she is celebrating this anniversary by doing another blog-a-thon as it is similar to the one she did five years ago which I participated in with this entry five years ago. Now it’s again to do another one as she has some rules similar to the one five years ago:

1. List your favourite actors, actresses, movies or directors from # to z

2. I allow a little wiggle room: you may list two under one letter* because it is vol 2 after all! *in that case, the choices have to be from different categories – actor/director, actress/movie, etc.*

3. If you participated last time, don’t look at your first movie alphabet before vol 2 is ready

4. Comparisons in between your new alphabet and the previous one are highly encouraged

5. Post your Movie Alphabet Vol 2 by the 31st of May, link back to this post and let me know here in the comments or over at twitter @MettelRay (and use the hashtag mettelrayse7en)

6. Use one of the banners below in your post or create your own!

7. Most importantly, have a ton of fun!

That is pretty easy to follow as here we go again:

#-24 Hour Party People

Michael Winterbottom’s ingenious and off-the-wall film about the Manchester music scene of the late 1970s to the early 1990s revolving around the founding of Factory Records and the club known as the Hacienda.

A-Agnes Varda

The Godmother of the French New Wave and one of the most influential filmmakers in the world who is about to retire.

B-Brie Larson

One of the finest actresses working today thanks to such films as Short Term 12 and Room as well as becoming a superhero for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain Marvel.

C-The Criterion Collection

The place where the DVD/Blu-Rays still matter in this age of streaming of digital devices as they don’t offer some of the finest films out there but also extra content that is just too insatiable to ignore.

D-David Fincher

Hollywood’s dark prince who is definitely one of the finest filmmakers working today as we film buffs are anxious for what he does next (as long as it’s not World War Z 2).

E-Ellen Page & Evan Rachel Wood

2 of the finest actresses working today who both don’t define themselves sexually nor are willing to take on very conventional projects as they’re part of my exclusive club of actresses known as the Bullet Club.

F-Federico Fellini

One of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th Century whose work are hallmarks for world cinema with such films as La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, La Strada, Amarcord, and Nights of Cabiria.

G-Gal Gadot

A very beautiful woman who can kick some ass thanks to her work in Fast & Furious franchise yet is about to become a mega-star in her role as Wonder Woman.

H-Heaven’s Gate

A film that is flawed but certainly grand as its exploration into the dark aspects of American history is told with such richness by the late Michael Cimino.

I-Inception

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending yet enthralling epic that explore the world of the mind as it features an ensemble cast for the ages in Leonardo diCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger, Cillian Murphy, the late Pete Postlethwaite, and Michael Caine.

J-Jacques Tati

Another of the finest filmmakers of the 20th Century with such classics as Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime, and Trafic as they were told with such wit about the fallacies of modernism.

K-The Killing

Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough feature is definitely one of the finest heist movies ever made as it also explore what can go right and what can go wrong as it's got some gorgeous visuals and an incredible cast led by Sterling Hayden.

L-Let the Right One In

Tomas Alfredson’s incredible vampire film that really brought the world some bite back into moody and whiny vampires as it remains one of the finest films of the 21st Century so far.

M-The Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1975 film is certainly one of the most challenging and abstract films of 20th Century as it doesn’t have much of a plot. Yet, it remains a monumental achievement in cinema as it would provide the template for many ideas in cinema for years to come in abstract, non-conventional filmmaking.

N-Nicholas Winding Refn

One of the coolest filmmakers working today as well as one of the most controversial who is definitely taking Lars von Trier’s crown as Denmark’s enfant terrible thanks in part to such films as the Pusher trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, Drive, and The Neon Demon.

O-Olivia Thirlby

Definitely one of the most underrated actresses working today as someone who is need of some mainstream exposure as her performances in films such as Snow Angels, Juno, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and Nobody Walks prove that she is phenomenal as she’s also part of my personal collective of great actresses in the Bullet Club.

P-Pan’s Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro’s crowning achievement is truly one of the great films of the 21st Century in the way it combine fantasy, horror, and drama with such beauty as it is really the new standard bearer of what fantasy films should be.

Q-The Queen

Stephen Frears’ portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in how she dealt with the death of Princess Diana and the need to speak out is truly an amazing film thanks in part to Helen Mirren as well as a great supporting performance from Michael Sheen as Tony Blair.

R-Roman Holiday

From William Wyler comes one of the definitive romantic films ever as it’s very funny but also quite tender as it features incredible performances from Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn with the latter playing a princess who wants to see Rome as just a regular woman who would fall for this journalist.

S-Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is undoubtedly one of the most depraved, repulsive, and down-right fucked up films ever made. If you can survive people being tortured, beaten, and being forced to eat shit. Then you got some fucking balls.

T-This is Spinal Tap

Stonehenge.

U-Under the Skin

Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi film is probably one of the scariest and most chilling films of the 21st Century so far as it features some amazing technical achievements as well as an eerie yet evocative performance from Scarlett Johansson.

V-Viva Las Vegas

One of the better films that the King of Rock N’ Roll Elvis Presley starred in as it’s a fun movie with lots of cool tunes, racing, and most of all, Ann-Margaret.

W-Withnail & I

A classic British comedy about two unemployed actors who like to drink and fuck things up as they accidentally go on holiday and get themselves in trouble.

X-Xavier Dolan

One of the recent up-and-coming filmmakers who has been making a lot of wave in the past decade as he’s not even in his 30s yet films such as Laurence Anyways, Tom at the Farm, and Mommy are already considered some of the best films of the 21st Century so far.

Y-Yi Yi

Edward Yang’s final film is certainly one of the most touching of the 21st Century as it begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral as it follows the year in the life of a Taiwanese family dealing with all sorts of things that is often common with real life.

Z-Z

Costas-Garvas’ 1969 political drama is a terrifying film that follows the assassination of a political activist as its aftermath is more interesting where a magistrate tries to find out the truth.

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