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Dead Man (1995)
My God.
This is a GREAT MOVIE. Brilliant: Story. Writing. Directing. Acting. Amazingly good! Did I mention the score? Absolutely unbelievably great. Transcendent score. Production design? Utterly stunning. Cinematography? Forget it. Brilliant. This is a great movie on so many levels. Rather than break it apart and analyze for you how great it is, please, please, please just take my word for it and check this one out. Jim Jarmusch is a great talent, one of the best filmmakers ever, and this movie, alone, is proof of that.
Buddy Boy (1999)
Bizarre and often brilliant, a visually stunning study of one man's dark and lonely world.
This disturbing and hilarious film achieves a delicate balance of the macabre and the absurd. At times it approaches satire, but its ultimate dramatic intensity belies a more serious study of faith and alienation. The performances of Aidan Gillen, as Francis, the lonely introvert voyeur, and Susan Tyrrell, his abusive mother, are exceptional. The production design and cinematography together create a strange and haunting world. One particularly interesting element is the use of sound to convey the protagonist's changing psychological perspective. Overall, this film has the unusual characteristic of staying with you long after you've seen it. I would highly recommend it.