ZayanK

Incredibly intense political film about two sides of a coin who are both right and wrong at the same time. If there's got to be an essential film about the inherent contradictions of colonialism this is the one. Perhaps the only thing missing here for me is the side of the Arab loyalists, who stood with the French until the end. That would have made the film even more interesting imho.

94 _93%

Days of Heaven (1978) - Rated 10 May 2011

Shooting exclusively in the magic hour should be considered cheating in filmmaking.

92 _88%

Eraserhead (1977) - Rated 24 Dec 2011

I've had my doubts about fatherhood, but after this there's no way in hell I'm having any children ever.

96 _95%

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) - Rated 22 Jul 2009

The definitive descent into madness.

96 _95%

Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968) - Rated 05 Feb 2012

Comparisons to Godard or other New Wave filmmakers are superficial at best. This is not merely a French bourgeois's Marxist pseudo-intellectual ramblings, it's a very human story shot in the midst of post-revolutionary material and psychological turmoil, and the malaise provoked by the cyclical nature of underdevelopment (pretty words I KNOW). I'm surprised at how few rankings this movie's got at this site, don't know if it's a distribution thing in the US or what.

56 _23%

Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Rated 11 Dec 2009

After seeing it a second time, I decided it's shit.

Actors	Humphrey Bogart James Coburn Daniel Day-Lewis Clint Eastwood Klaus Kinski Silvia Pinal Fernando Rey Max von Sydow
Directors	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Luis Buñuel Leonardo Favio Werner Herzog Alejandro Jodorowsky Gaspar Noé Martin Scorsese Andrei Tarkovsky Orson Welles
Writers	Jean-Claude Carrière