These aren't movies that are going to make you cry, or make you say "man, that was amazing!" to your friends. No -- here are five movies that will literally change your life, because they will change the way you look at art, at people, at power -- at everything.
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: Riefenstahl's Disturbing Masterpiece, 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: Chinatown.
Polanski, despite the mess he created for himself before leaving America, made what is undoubtedly one of the best American films of all time. This might just be one of those movies that says more about Hollywood than any other, which is important if you ever think about what the movies 'mean' to us.
#2: Vertigo is the Summation of Everything Hitchcock Did.
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: America is Summed Up in The Godfather.
It doesn't matter that this film is about the mafia -- it's actually about family, power, children, America, crime, and politics. It's also told so unbelievably well that sometimes you literally cannot believe it doesn't have a bad moment. Which it doesn't. The ultimate example of film's completely unique cultural position.
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: Riefenstahl's Disturbing Masterpiece, 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: Chinatown.
Polanski, despite the mess he created for himself before leaving America, made what is undoubtedly one of the best American films of all time. This might just be one of those movies that says more about Hollywood than any other, which is important if you ever think about what the movies 'mean' to us.
#2: Vertigo is the Summation of Everything Hitchcock Did.
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: America is Summed Up in The Godfather.
It doesn't matter that this film is about the mafia -- it's actually about family, power, children, America, crime, and politics. It's also told so unbelievably well that sometimes you literally cannot believe it doesn't have a bad moment. Which it doesn't. The ultimate example of film's completely unique cultural position.
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