Highly recommended by paul

Highly recommended by paul

Films I love and recommend to anybody, but don't have a strong enough bond with to call "favorites." Subsequently, this list may not turn your world upside down, but they're all must-sees.

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Amadeus

Milos Forman (1984)

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Breaking Away

Peter Yates (1979)

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Buffalo '66

Vincent Gallo (1998)

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Children of Men

Alfonso Cuarón (2006)

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Detroit Rock City

Adam Rifkin (1999)

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Dog Day Afternoon

Sidney Lumet (1975)

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Dot the I

Matthew Parkhill (2003)

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Elephant

Gus Van Sant (2003)

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Far from Heaven

Todd Haynes (2002)

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Fargo

Joel Coen (1996)

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Following

Christopher Nolan (1998)

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I'd have to say this film tops MEMENTO for me. The super low-budget quality adds a level of anonymity which plays well with the story.

Gosford Park

Robert Altman (2001)

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Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog (2005)

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Kafka

Steven Soderbergh (1991)

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Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock (1946)

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It's Hitchcock. What else do I have to say? The Staricase sequence is one of the most suspenseful things I've ever seen.

Psycho

Gus Van Sant (1998)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg (1981)

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I can't help it. Every time Indy rides that horse out of the tent to chase down a motorcade of Nazi's carrying the Ark and hundreds of arabs jump up cheering as he rushes past them, I get chills.

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa (1951)

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Serpico

Sidney Lumet (1973)

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Sexy Beast

Jonathan Glazer (2000)

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A simple film made great by the intensity of its characters. Such a strange and refreshing mix of comedy and psychological nail-biting.

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Hank Rogerson, Jilann Spitzmiller (2004)

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Smoke

Wayne Wang (1995)

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A loose and fun drama about relationships connected through a corner smoke shop in Brooklyn.

Spellbound

Jeffrey Blitz (2002)

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People either laugh their way through this film or—like me—find themselves laughing uncomfortably at their junior high selves somehow captured on screen. If you geeked your way through junior high, this flick will take you into some territory you'd only visit once in a long, long while.