Jimmy Stewart's "Harvey". There's so many things i could say about it, i can't say them effectively. The illustration of choosing to live in a state of graceful peace was a revelation; then there the layers of "wow good story telling, worth learning from", the performances still stand out as exemplary, and so on.
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#82Tropa de Elite (2007) - One of few films with a genuine right wing (not Neocon Globalist Corporatist) perspective. A Swedish Love Story (1970) - The innocence of youth vs. the cynical defeat of adulthood. Don't let the world corrupt your soul! Apocalypse Now (1979) (must watch the Redux cut!) - The heart of man behind all the artifice and words. In the Mood for Love (2000) - Dignity and beauty despite everything.
The white leave, the yellow stay...
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#8312 Angry men.
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#84Network (1976) Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Network just keeps getting more and more relevant every year. Every time I hear the "We're in the boredom-killing business!" rant, I think of all those dead-eyed fake-smile influencers.
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#8512 Angry Men
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Walkabout
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Koyaanisqatsi
A profound movie with no words except the chanting of a Hopi word, meaning "life out of balance", or "a way of life that calls for another way of life".
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My Dinner With Andre
"We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?"
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The Third Man
(Long shot from Martins' eye line of the fairground far below and the people now on it.)
"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man......free of income tax. It's the only way to save money nowadays."
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#86Cold Fever
Fandango
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#87Devs (2020, FX/Hulu). Not a movie, but movie-like (8-part series).
I’m not religious and I don’t believe in the traditional religious god. But Devs presents a fascinating framework for what that could look like that passes the nerd/science test (with some obvious creative/technological liberties).
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#88Je ne suis pas un homme facile. (I am not an easy man)
It’s a fairly recent, maybe two or three years old, romantic comedy. It’s light-hearted and funny but it really highlighted the absurdity of gender roles - for men and women - in a way I hadn’t ever stopped to consider before.
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#89I grew up in Germany and maybe around 1980 we watched "Die Brücke" in school. It's about a group of unprepared teenagers made to defend a bridge against advancing US troops. I don't really know if it's that good but left me shaken.
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#90City of God (and the documentary that was a special feature of the DVD and was better than the film)
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Ghost in the Shell (as someone else mentioned)