Ever seen a movie that changed your life? Not just in a superficial way, like "wow, I just saw a movie that I like more than all others!" No, I mean one that really changes the way you see the world.
It's hard to find a better list of films that are so unbelievably watchable, and yet say more about all those topics listed above. These movies will literally change your life.
#5: A Template for Spectacle -- Triumph of the Will.
All film is spectacle, it has been said, and there was no larger and more grotesque spectacle than Hitler and his Nazi party. This film celebrates them with movie techniques that were pioneering in its day, and since it is such a celebration of his party, it is so ultimately disturbing that it alters how you see 'tribute' films forever.
#4: De Sica's Genius on Display in Bicycle Thieves.
If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines -- man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike -- can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film.
#3: Polanski's Deconstruction of Hollywood in Chinatown.
If you've been put off by a few select films from the'40s because the plots are so convoluted or you don't happen to be a huge Bogart fan, check out this one instead, which has the perfect spirit of the 70s but happens to be set way back.
#2: Vertigo.
There is no other film that tricks the viewer into thinking they are watching just a normal (albeit extremely brilliant) thriller, while simultaneously deconstructing everything about what an actual film director does on set. If you ever need to see a film that can have so much going on all at once without seeming overcrowded, this is it.
#1: Coppola's Godfather Hits Heights Most Films Dream About.
You can almost never get tired of this film, it is that good on first go -- nearly every scene is legendarily filmed, acted, and executed, and then the fact that it happens to convey some grand and great things about America is almost like a bonus, until that becomes the reason you return to it 50 times. - 29967
It's hard to find a better list of films that are so unbelievably watchable, and yet say more about all those topics listed above. These movies will literally change your life.
#5: A Template for Spectacle -- Triumph of the Will.
All film is spectacle, it has been said, and there was no larger and more grotesque spectacle than Hitler and his Nazi party. This film celebrates them with movie techniques that were pioneering in its day, and since it is such a celebration of his party, it is so ultimately disturbing that it alters how you see 'tribute' films forever.
#4: De Sica's Genius on Display in Bicycle Thieves.
If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines -- man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike -- can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film.
#3: Polanski's Deconstruction of Hollywood in Chinatown.
If you've been put off by a few select films from the'40s because the plots are so convoluted or you don't happen to be a huge Bogart fan, check out this one instead, which has the perfect spirit of the 70s but happens to be set way back.
#2: Vertigo.
There is no other film that tricks the viewer into thinking they are watching just a normal (albeit extremely brilliant) thriller, while simultaneously deconstructing everything about what an actual film director does on set. If you ever need to see a film that can have so much going on all at once without seeming overcrowded, this is it.
#1: Coppola's Godfather Hits Heights Most Films Dream About.
You can almost never get tired of this film, it is that good on first go -- nearly every scene is legendarily filmed, acted, and executed, and then the fact that it happens to convey some grand and great things about America is almost like a bonus, until that becomes the reason you return to it 50 times. - 29967
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