Though maybe I’m biased having ~lived the film IRL as a Harvard grad having gone to Medical School & made big money on blackjack in Vegas, 21: paean to city lights, wild ecstasy, atmospheric luxe of Sin City, doubled down by split-cast aces. 7.6/10.
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Category: All-Time Favorites
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Greatest Film Of All-Time, OW’s new-age opera, political-drama, black comedy, mystery-noir, satirization, romance, & biography/psychological-pièta evolved ciné: complex, plot-eclectc, avant-garde metaphor of power, love, money, tragedy. 10/10.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A prismatized odyssey of stars & events of galaxy/life history w. bold, complex, Da Vincian questions: ethos, mystery, origins, evol. of manknd, God, technology, nature ’01: pure sci-fi x IQ w. century-adv. A/V symphony; #2 Best Film Of All-Time. 10/10.
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Il Buôno, Il Brùto, Y Il Cativó [G.B.U.] (1967)
The definitive Spaghetti Western, Leone’s G/B/U satirizes classical western heroes & clear good vs. evil boundary lines; A blazing, whistle-tuned, stylishly-gunsmoked, hyperviolent, darwinian, egoistic, morality-dichotomized paragon of cinema. 10/10.
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The Godfather (1972)
A new age of culture & expatriative exposition in film, Coppola’s multi-generational crime saga masterpiece on Mario Puzo’s novel in 1940’s NYC is a flawlessly directed, acted, and scripted tale of power, justice, revenge, and the legacy of a family. 10/10.
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King Kong (1932)
The first-ever blockbuster movie groundbreaking a new cinematic age with avant-garde VFX/stopmotion techniques, epic NYC-action, colonialsm, beauty-and-beast romance, & Greek-tragic mortalization redefining what’s possible at movies. 10/10.
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Das Cabinet Von Dr. Caligari (1920)
The first-ever horror movie jolting the postwar masses & revolutionizing cinema by founding Germany’s Expressionist movement, RW’s nightmarish, metaphoric, silent psychological dreamscape is one of the most groundbreaking films of 1900s. 9.5/10.
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
A wildly-idiosyncratic/stylized hybrid of neo-noir, black comedy, hallucinogenic pulp, divine redemption, crime, punchy dialogue blending peppery funk & lyricism, & post-modern zeitgeist fetishizing nostalgia; changed the rules of cinema. 10/10.
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The Dark Knight (2008)
A bone-chil. descent into crime undrwrld by comic book pseudonym, TDK bloomed corporate franchise blockbusterisms into arthouse: [B]illion $ indie w. dark|complex themes, noir, white-knuckle exp., H.L. Joker: Best Performance & Villain Ever. 10/10.
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à bout de soufflé (1960)
A beautiful, sweeping example of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard’s indie masterpiece rewrote every rule of narrative construction & revitalized a medium, paradigmatically and stylishly-liberating the once-caged artform of cinema. 10/10.
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