What are the seminal films everyone has to see at least once?

I want to get into 'film'. And I have an eighth and no classes tomorrow.

What have I seen and liked? One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest...err...Clockwork Orange...Trainspotting...err...you know.

Please help or what could have been a very cultured, inspiring evening is going to turn into me getting stoned and watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Uh-uh.

PS: no action, horror, thrillers, stuff about spies or aliens or other forms of 'blokey' film please!

What about some Jean-Luc Godard? I recently bought Band Of Outsiders, Masculin Feminin, and A Woman Is A Woman. I'd say any of them are essential viewing, but you want to watch only one of them, I'd say Band Of Outsiders is a sure bet.

Never heard of him/them! What are they about?

Lilya 4 eva
show me love (fucking amal) both by moodyson. watch those two films, they are so different in tone and mood but both completely amazing. Lilya 4 eva actually changed my life, but be warned it is fucking depressing.

land and freedom ( if you havent seen it, it's about fighting fascists so it's right up your alley)

pan's labyrinth,

brick


those are all new ones so i should think of some older ones


I will think of some more.

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These sound good. I tend to enjoy 'the depressing' and not see it as 'depressing' - witness great love of Morrissey etc. What are they about?

the fall-out at the next BNP AGM? i so WOULD watch that.

please tell me what these films are about. i know i am asking a lot for erm no return except undying gratitude and that little warm feeling in your tummy that comes from knowing thatyou stopped someone caving in and watching a Vince Vaughn erm epic

lilya 4 eva is about a young girl in the former soviet union whose life falls to shit, I can't say more than that without giving too much away, but it's really good.

fucking amal is about two kids at school in sweden, one is popular and the other isn't...it's pretty straightforward. (i havent actually made that sound very good)

land and freedom is about a guy from liverpool who goes to fight in the spanish civil war, if you've read homage to catalonia it is a rip off of that basically, if orwell was alive he wouldve sued. good film tho. on a similar note watch the wind that shakes the barley. same director, very similar story, but set in the irish war of indepence, and civil war.

brick is hard to describe. it's a thriller/mystery set in a highschool and has this sense of hyper-reality, with some really good dialogue.

pan's labyrinth is about a little girl growing up in the spanish civil war who gets wrapped up in a fantasy world of her own.

i sort of got carried away there

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He's the father of French New-Wave cinema and practically every modern filmmaker worth their salt list him as an influence.

Band Of Outsiders (1964) is about two young men with a great love for American B-movies, Arthur and Franz. They meet a young woman who lives with her wealthy father, Odile. Both men fall for her and her to get involved with their heist plans.
The dance scene between Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is greatly influenced from Band Of Outsiders:

Masculin Feminin (1966) is a melding of, in Godard's terms, "The children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Paul is an idealistic intellectual pursuing a relationship with pop star Madeleine. What ensues between them is a mix of satire and tragedy.

A Woman Is A Woman (1962) is a wonderfully playful tribute to American musicals, or again, in Godard's terms, "A neorealist musical - that is, a contradiction in terms." It involves an exotic dancer, Angela, who wants to have a child with her unwilling lover, Emile. But soon she finds herself falling for his friend, Alfred.

I agree with the Moodysson, but break in gently - watch Tillsammens (Together) first. If you're going to watch Lilya, do it when you have a few hours free after to cry and hate the world.

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the thing i dont get about moodyson is that until lilya 4 eva, all his films were so upbeat, and then this...

I'd seen fucking amal before so when my uni had a film week dedicated to moodyson culminated in a showing of lilya i went along, the only thing worse than watching that film alone is watching it in a theatre full of people

ooh i thought of another dr strangelove

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Godard is God.

was A Hole In My Heart before or after Lilya, because that wasn't fucking upbeat! I haven't been able to finish it yet.

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BTW, where'd Faye go?

after, i think that was officially the beginning of his 'difficult' stage. Incidentally have you heard about his new film? he's got a-listers!

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A-LISTERS! Is that allowed? I have to admit, I've only seen the films that came in the boxset...

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me too. he's got michelle williams and Gael García Bernal on his next one, i think his bad boy outsider days are behind him.

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Woes

I add to this thread:
Breaking The Waves
If...
Disco Pigs
Apocalypse Now

so basically my favourite films. IMPOSED UPON YOU.

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