Movies:
Werner Herzog: Strozek, Signs of Life, Kaspar Hauser, Land of Silence and Darkness, Grizzly Man, Aguirre - The Wrath of God, La Soufriere, Even Dwarfs Started Small, etc., etc.
Roger Ebert on Werner Herzog (my sentiments exactly):
"Herzog by his example gave me a model for the film artist: fearless, driven by his subjects, indifferent to commercial considerations, trusting his audience to follow him anywhere. In the 38 years since I saw my first Herzog film, after an outpouring of some 50 features and documentaries, he has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular."
John Cassavetes: Woman Under the Influence, Love Streams, Faces, Minnie & Moscowitz, Shadows, etc. etc.
Roman Polanski: The Tenant, Cul de Sac, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown
Alexander Paine: Sideways, About Schmidt, Election
Mike Leigh: Life is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies
Hal Ashby: Harold & Maude, Coming Home, Being There, Shampoo, The Last Detail
Godard: Breathless, Contempt
Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala, Ran, Kagemusha, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai
Truffaut: Jules and Jim, 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player
Errol Morris: Gates of Heaven, Fog of War, Mr. Death
Jarmusch: Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man
Early Scorsese: Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, King of Comedy. Goodfellas is the only movie worth talking about recently.
Early Coppola: Godfather's 1 & 2 ... 3 doesn't exist, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Rumble Fish
Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy, Elephant, Last Days, To Die For
Woody Allen: Manattan, Annie Hall, Play it Again Sam, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry, Husbands and Wives, Sweet & Lowdown, Stardust Memories, Alice, Purple Rose of Cairo...
Billy Wilder: The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity
Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, 2001
Other great films:
Into the Wild - No Country For Old Men - Ratatouille - The Bourne Ultimatum - Trees Lounge - Last Tango in Paris - A Streetcar Named Desire - On the Waterfront -
- 8 1/2 - Juliette of the Spirits - Do the Right Thing - Whale Rider - Nashville - Menace 2 Society - Short Cuts - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Five Easy Pieces (maybe my favorite ever)
Ratcatcher -
- Missouri Breaks - Once Upon a Time in the West - Julien Donkey Boy - Roger & Me - Bowling for Columbine - Lost in Translation - Fargo - Miller's Crossing - All That Jazz - - Cabaret - Blood Simple - Animal House - Caddyshack - Jaws - Star Wars - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Oliver! - Catch Me If You Can - Slingblade - Batman Begins - Crumb - Ghost World - Dream With the Fishes -A Simple Plan - Monster's Ball - Dead Man Walking - Darkman - The Gift - Reservoir Dogs - Kill Bill 1&2 - Jackie Brown - The Deer Hunter - The Dead Zone - Dog Day Afternoon - Happy Together - Singin' in the Rain - Before Night Falls - That's Entertainment - The General - It Happened One Night - Bottle Rocket - OFFICE SPACE - Rushmore - The Royal Tenenbaums - Rules of Attraction - Happiness - Welcome to the Dollhouse - Safe - Velvet Goldmine - I'm Not There - Don't Look Back - No Direction Home - The French Connection - Wages of Fear (the original) - The Exorcist - Halloween - Vertigo - North By Northwest - Strangers on a Train - Blackmail - Frenzy -- okay everything Hitchcock did - The Bad News Bears (the original) - Slacker - Dazed & Confused - Before Sunrise - School of Rock - Almost Famous - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Network - The Pawnbroker - The Wizard of Oz - Sleeping Beauty - Citizen Kane - Slap Shot - Cool Hand Luke - Bonnie & Clyde - The Ice Storm - Brokeback Mountain - Sense and Sensibility - The Third Man - Brief Encounter - Y tu Mama Tambien - City of God - The Sorrow and the Pity - Ulee's Gold - You Can Count on Me - Prick Up Your Ears - Sid & Nancy - The Decline of Western Civilization - Over the Edge - River's Edge - Little Darlings (I had a weakness for Kristy and Tatum in the day)
- Blue Velvet - At Close Range - Ed Wood - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Being John Malkovich - Lawrence of Arabia - Barfly - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - American Me - Toy Story - Badlands - Days of Heaven - The Thin Red Line - Wonder Boys - Monty Python & the Holy Grail - Alien - The Manchurian Candidate - The Graduate - Midnight Cowboy - Young Frankenstein - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - This is Spinal Tap - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf - The Marriage of Maria Braun - Sherman's March - Saturday Night Fever - Boogie Nights - Blow - Swingers - The Three Colors Trilogy - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Heavenly Creatures - The Bicycle Thief - Brazil - Johnny Guitar - Detour - High Fidelity - My Beautiful Laundrette - Bob Roberts - Bull Durham - George Washington - Glengarry Glen Ross - Tribute - Zeffireli's Romeo and Juliet - Elephant Man - Eraser Head - A Hard Day's Night - The Three Musketeers - Petulia - Robin and Marian - Sophie's Choice - Burden of Dreams - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Other movies involving speed:
Spun - Salton Sea - Tweeked
