Sorry bit O/T, but why has the user "Omaar" got small non-link text as his username?
Stoopid, I know, but it's bugging me.
I think its because he's no longer a member maybe?? bugged me for a second too
I did two years of heavy Comp Lit in college with endless film classes and wrote more than a dozen papers on Lang, Murnau, Godard, Melville, Fassbinder etc...yet whenever someone asks me my favorite films I always blank out...
off the top of my head(in no particular order)
Apocalypse Now(Coppola)
Perfectly captures the intensely hallucinatory state of total war.
Mulholland Drive(Lynch)
I was only 15 when i first saw this, needless to say it completely blew apart what i thought movies were capable of.
Le Samourai/Le Cercle Rouge/Army of Shadows(Melville)
The first two here are not just two of the best crime film ever made but they are absurdly cool. Army of Shadows I saw when it finally got released in the states in 06/07 and its a pretty incredible work of art.
La Jetee(Marker)
I think this might actually be my favorite film ever...but of course there's what, two shots that aren't still photos? And its quite short...but really I think this is one of the most affecting experiences you can have with the medium. Such a great ending as well.
Brazil(Gilliam)
I've had kind of a love/hate relationship with this film mainly because of all the different versions, but I may have watched this movie more than any other.
Blade Runner(Scott)
I don't think I would've included this here but The Final Cut was pretty much flawless for me.
M(Lang)
This movie plays like one enormously haunting preminition of what was to befall Germany in the years to come. One of the more haunting movies there is.
Royal Tenenbaums(Anderson)
No matter what your feelings on Anderson its hard to deny this movie's greatness. It really gets better every single time I watch it, not a single second gets old.
Lola(Fassbinder)
Most people's least favorite of the BRD Trilogy but for some reason I love it. The bubblegum pop colors, some incredible acting/dialog, and easily Fassbinder's most "fun" movie. Of course I haven't seen Berlin Alexanderplatz yet and with what everyone says about it that probably would replace this here.