The Movie Never Changes
“Best of…” lists are too difficult because they require some level of objectivity (which may or may not have a place when judging the creative process and works it produces). Here are a few assorted movie-related lists that may give you some idea of the kind of moviegoer I am.
Favorite directors working today:
- Christopher Nolan
- Danny Boyle
- Michael Mann
- Park Chan Wook
- Quentin Tarantino
- David Fincher
- Wong Kar Wai
- Darren Aronofsky (can’t believe I forgot to include him)
And these guys from the past:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Orson Welles
- Billy Wilder
- Alfred Hitchcock
- John Frankenheimer
- Stanley Kubrick
Movies that I’ve spent the most time thinking about:
- Memento
- Let the Right One In
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Double Indemnity
- The Matrix
- Children of Men
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- JFK
- Apocalypse Now
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Lives of Others
Movies that make me an emotional mess:
- The Iron Giant
- Life is Beautiful
- Moulin Rouge!
- The Wedding Singer
- The Land Before Time
more to come…
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COLE: I have seen it, but I don’t remember this part. Funny, it’s like what’s happening to us, like the past. The movie never changes — it can’t change — but everytime you see it, it seems to be different because you’re different — you notice different things.
RAILLY: If we can’t change anything… because it’s already happened, then we ought to at least smell the flowers.
- 12 Monkeys -
