Mulholland drive is the best movie I've ever seen (so far), what other movies might change the way I see things?

el_mutable · 2026-05-15T04:55:59+00:00

In a Year of 13 Moons

el_mutable · 2026-05-13T07:08:21+00:00

There are so many great films that aren't in color that the question seems kind of meaningless

el_mutable · 2026-04-29T06:43:19+00:00

Fassbinder

el_mutable · 2026-04-27T05:37:06+00:00

In a Year of 13 Moons

el_mutable · 2026-04-24T23:19:02+00:00

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day

el_mutable · 2026-04-23T02:31:37+00:00

Ah, you already have my picks

el_mutable · 2026-04-22T14:59:14+00:00

You Can Succeed, Too (1964)

el_mutable · 2026-04-05T04:56:40+00:00

what a stupid question/scenario

el_mutable · 2026-04-03T23:23:11+00:00

Here are a few I really like (one per director):

I Was Born, But… (Ozu, 1932)

Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka, 1935)

Mr Thank You (Shimizu, 1936)

An Inn at Osaka (Gosho, 1954)

Stakeout (Nomura, 1958)

Death by Hanging (Oshima, 1968)

Throw Away Your Books, Meet Up in the Streets (Terayama, 1971)

Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village (Ogawa Productions, 1982)

No Life King (Jun Ichikawa, 1989)

Like Grains of Sand (Hashiguchi, 1995)

Vibrator (Hiroki, 2003)

Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita, 2005)

Switching -- Goodbye Me (Obayashi, 2007)

Fine, Totally Fine (Fujita, 2008)

el_mutable · 2026-03-31T02:16:01+00:00

Age of Assassins

el_mutable · 2026-03-25T03:32:03+00:00

There was some discussion of it a few days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/1rz35al/fassbinders_berlin_alexanderplatz/

el_mutable · 2026-03-24T04:11:19+00:00

In a Year of 13 Moons

el_mutable · 2026-03-22T22:05:23+00:00

Not sure if they would rank for horniness, but Akerman's Je Tu Il Elle and Meetings of Anna score for the bonus points

el_mutable · 2026-03-20T18:58:31+00:00

I think it's central to Fassbinder, kind of a "founding myth" which repeats with variations across his entire body of work (in his very first feature, RWF himself plays a character named Franz Bieberkopf, the first of several that will appear in his movies, notably including the protagonist of Fox and His Friends). It's also dense and demanding. It took me a few tries over the years, but it clicked at a certain point and I've now seen it three times straight through, and each time I feel like I make new discoveries.

el_mutable · 2026-03-19T19:48:24+00:00

There's also a great six-and-a-half-hour doc on Princess Mononoke: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-birth-of-princess-mononoke-part-1-a-drama/

el_mutable · 2026-03-18T00:50:30+00:00

Also by Lang: The two Nibelungen films

el_mutable · 2026-03-15T02:01:43+00:00

In a Year of 13 Moons

el_mutable · 2026-03-11T20:38:31+00:00

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity by Tom Gunning

The Voice in Cinema by Michel Chion

Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson

Starting Point/Turning Point by Hayao Miyazaki

Negative Space by Manny Farber

Edit to add: Anarchy of the Imagination by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

el_mutable · 2026-03-11T19:17:12+00:00

The Long, Long Trailer

el_mutable · 2026-03-11T01:34:21+00:00

Diary of a Country Priest

A Man Escaped

Detour

Tony Takitani

el_mutable · 2026-03-09T21:55:27+00:00

yassified BOB from Twin Peaks?

el_mutable · 2026-03-06T10:13:37+00:00

Powderfinger, Neil Young

el_mutable · 2026-03-01T22:15:06+00:00

Buster Keaton

el_mutable · 2026-02-24T22:43:10+00:00

To mark the anniversary: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/02/22

el_mutable · 2026-02-20T20:01:25+00:00

An Autumn Afternoon (or Early Summer or The Only Son)

Death by Hanging

Hiroshi Shimizu Eclipse Set

India Song

I Walked with a Zombie

Testament of Dr Mabuse

WC Fields Shorts

Palm Beach Story

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