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

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Jim Carrey's best performance ever - see him unlike other movies. A great film - creative.

Updated Mar 1, 2007

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Memento (2000)

15 people recommended this item

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I love how the filmmakers force the viewer to encounter the same problems as the main character. He cannot remember what happened ten minutes ago and the audience has no idea what happened ten minutes ago (timeline-wise). Plus the audience is forced to remember what happened at the beginning of a scene in order to put it together with the end of the next scene they are about to watch.

It creates an effect of serious time confusion, which I guess is what Guy Pearce was dealing with.

Updated Dec 15, 2006

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The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)

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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

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Adaptation

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It's a true story, kind of. Essentially this film explores Charlie Kaufman's head when h was commissioned to write a screenplay for "The Orchid Thief." Given, the guy is completely crazy to it's quite a wild ride.

Updated Aug 18, 2008

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The Fugitive

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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

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The Sixth Sense (1999)

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I don't think I can ever watch this movie again. Especially alone. Don't get me wrong, i like the movie. But, hey, I'm not you and you're not me, so go ahead- I dare you.

Updated Jul 26, 2008

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Being John Malkovich

5 people recommended this item

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Twisted - and I love it.

Updated Mar 1, 2007

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Shaun of the Dead

13 people recommended this item

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Wickedly fun and entertaining! This is a horror comedy in the ranks of the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Hilarious.

Updated Jul 20, 2008

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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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

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Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection

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The orpheus myth retold during Carnaval in Brazil.

Updated Feb 15, 2008

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