Movie Magic

Below is a list of lesser-known movies that I recommend:

• Pi – Faith in Chaos (Darren Aronofsky director)  1998
• Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish director) 1999
• Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton director) 1996
• Run Lola Run (German, Tom Tykwer director) 1998
• The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy director) 2005
• Gattaca (Andrew Niccol director) 1997
• Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze director) 1999
• Kundun (Martin Scorsese director) 1997
• Sideways (Alexander Payne director) 2005
• Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks director) 1991
• Three Kings (David O. Russell director) 1999
• Ulee’s Gold (Victor Nunez director) 1999
• Hideous Kinky (Gillies Mackinnon director) 1999

Below is a list of some of my favorite classics:

• Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen directors) 1996 
• Gran Turino (Clint Eastwood director) 2009
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt director) 1965
• The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer director) 1962
• The Third Man (Carol Reed director) 1949
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (French:  Jacques Demy director) 1964
• The Hurt Locker (Catherine Bigelow director) 2009

Below is a list of recommended guilty pleasures:

• GI Jane (Ridley Scott director) 1997
• T2:  Judgment Day (James Cameron director) 1991
• Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog director)  2007
• Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox director) 1956
• Fight Club (David Fincher director) 1996
• The Truman Show (Peter Weir director) 1998 or EDtv (Ron Howard director) 1999
• Pirate Radio (Richard Curtis director) 2009
• The Emerald Forest (John Boorman director) 1985
• Napolean Dynamite (Jared and Jerusha Hess directors) 2004
• Charlie Wilson’s War (Mike Nichols director) 2007

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