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If you only had access to ~5 films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

For me, this is something of an update to this post. 'though, there's a difference between 'favourite' films, and 'nothing but these films'.

5 is just a number. Fewer films is more impressive. I think 10 is too many for this.


Lost in Translation
Buffalo '66
Brief Encounter
Some Voices
and . . something else. [a Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar), or Ray, or Kar-Wai Wong (Chungking or 2046), or Only Yesterday, or a Fred Astaire (or Chaplin). maybe Borderline.] (ugh, i've sort of cheated and done 10 films)


I feel I can relate to the culture surrounding these films, and the way the characters view the world (an object separate from their mindscape and fantasies. an obstacle, but with potential for frivolity).

It's also something I have trouble conjuring up myself, unlike with Bergman or Tarkovsky or Malick (or 2001). (and, I just wouldn't desire to see most of those films more than once.)

There's a focus on intimate relationships that happen to be blocked by circumstance or inability/disability.
Or just an imbalance/subtle incompatibility that is reluctantly resigned to.


Criticism: I suppose they're all romantic tragedies/sad romantic fantasies, and so lack variety.
Maybe a dearth of style, sound, and macrocosmic overview, more abstracted dream realities, that film can thrive in (Lynch, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carax, etc.). Ramsay/Ray could make up for that, and B'66 does a bit.
As fantasies, they're optimistic, sentimental. Something like The Green Ray would be more honest/reflective (in all its Pascalian horror).

Buffalo '66 is the misfit. Its grimy elegance feels necessary.