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Essential Movies - a list by kayzee
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The films that, for me, are as essential as air.
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
25 people recommended this item
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When they reach the last memory, Tangerine says "This is it. This is when we met. What should we do?" and Joel replies: "Enjoy it." One of the most beautiful, poignant moments on film. This is my favorite movie of all time. Charlie Kaufman is a god.
Updated Feb 15, 2008
Memento (2000)
15 people recommended this item
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You can't watch this one just once. It's more amazing every time I see it.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)
First to recommend
2 people recommended this item
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Goes really well with comfort food. We watch this one when we need to be swept away.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
Adaptation
3 people recommended this item
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This is the most brilliant movie, so funny the way it makes fun of Hollywood agents, the writing process, Robert McKee, and the movie Identity. Wonderfully reflexive, inventive, profound. Charlie Kaufman takes scriptwriting to a literary high.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
The Fugitive
First to recommend
2 people recommended this item
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As the playwright Tom Stoppard once pointed out, the most perfect moment in this perfectly scripted movie is when Harrison Ford says "I didn't kill my wife" and Tommy Lee Jones replies "I don't care" - elegantly setting up the story's arc. Because of course, he WILL care by the end.
Updated Feb 15, 2008
The Sixth Sense (1999)
7 people recommended this item
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Listen to me and listen to me good .. ghost/ dead people are scary. This is one of the coolest movies I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, rent it. If anything to see that kid being all creepy and cute, or to see a young Mischa Barton, or for the famous twist.
Updated Sep 6, 2007
Being John Malkovich
5 people recommended this item
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Possibly revolutionary, trippy movie about a portal leading into John Malkovich's brain. Charlie Kaufman's screenplay is unbelievable.
Updated Mar 6, 2007
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Shaun of the Dead
13 people recommended this item
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This movie is so hilarious! It's got it all, its British, its funny and scary. The scene where they are deciding which records to throw at the zombies is so amazing awesome!
Updated Apr 10, 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4 people recommended this item
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In the world of birds, starlings are interlopers. How perfect that the author named his heroine Patrice Starling as a woman coming up in the ranks of the FBI. Beautiful and scary.
Updated Feb 15, 2008
Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection
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The orpheus myth retold during Carnaval in Brazil.
Updated Feb 15, 2008
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