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- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron)
- Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
- Donnie Darko (Kelly)
- Into the Wild (Penn)
- Miracolo a Milano (De Sica)
Other favorites of mine include:
Apocalypse Now
Planet of the Apes (the original of course)
There Will Be Blood
Ben-Hur
E.T.
Requiem for a Dream
The Shining
Phenomena
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
North by Northwest
The Wrong Man
Stalag 17
Naked Lunch
La Strada
Ordet (Dreyer)
Breaking the Waves
Sunset Blvd.
Scanners
and many many more
Reviews
Afterschool (2008)
Afterschool - grueling watch
As noted by many, Afterschool is one in a bunch of teen death films, but that doesn't necessarily make it unoriginal or plot less. Afterschool does have a developing plot, but its visual side IS unoriginal. Many mention Van Sant's Elephant (2003), - personally I thought of Michael Haneke many times, especially his Benny's Video (1992), which is thematically similar and also must have been a visual inspiration for Afterschool. I do think that director Campos has succeeded in getting formidable performances out of his actors, especially Ezra Miller, who portrays adolescent depression and bewilderment forcefully, and Michael Stuhlbarg as the principal. With Afterschool, he has made one of the most depressing films American cinema has ever produced (that I've seen). EVERYTHING is wrong in the world portrayed in this film, and especially adults are univocally idiotic and destructive, they are hypocrites, mean, egotistic, inhumane, and/or stupid. It's almost as frustrating to watch as The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), (grueling death realism for 150 minutes in Romania), but not as brilliant. I generously give 7 stars to Afterschool, because I am a huge Ezra Miller-fan, but be advised:
This movie is very nearly impossible to love.