I think Jim Jarmusch is fine, after Down by Law, he is forever cherished in Europe by a big following.
I would like to make one correction to the above suggestions. The best movie is Dumb and Dumber. Period. Everybody knows it,
Movie/film suggestions.
While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies 
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I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:
The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?
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@winoguy17: Speaking of the Coen Brothers, have you seen The Man Who Wasn't There. Fantastic! A modern Noir instant classic, with the most beautiful B & W cinematography (by Roger Deakins) I've EVER seen. I also love their little-known A Serious Man, which having a Jewish girlfriend was helpful in understanding. For Billy Wilder it's Sunset Blvd. and The Apartment. For Hitchcock it's Vertigo. What has become of Jim Jarmusch? I loved his Coffee And Cigarettes, especially the scene with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.
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Yes, 'Madness' is appropriate indeed. I'm a huge David Lynch fan - he and Stanley Kubrick were always my 2 favorite film-makers; the painter and the still photographer - when he announced a few weeks ago that he'd had emphysema for 4 years and needed oxygen to walk across his living room, I was expecting that sad news at any time. Lynch and Kubrick were certainly mutual admirers of each other's work.... 'Mulholland Dr' is my all-time favorite film. Loved 'Dr Strangelove', 'Lolita' and the rest, but my fave Kubrick would be a tie between '2001' and 'A Clockwork Orange'. It's raining, I'm singing. |
@noromance: I didn’t mean for my use of the term ridiculous to be taken literally, as a pejorative dismissal. I love Eraserhead, but I knew the store manager would consider my choice ridiculous. Which she did.
@hifiguy42: My favorite of Kubrick’s is Dr. Strangelove.
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@bdp24 It was surreal and "ridiculous" then. Now, not so much. Too many lunatics. |
@noromance: The manager at my video store in the early-2000’s one day asked me what my favorite movie was. A ridiculous question, so I gave her a ridiculous answer: Eraserhead, of course. I recently read that Stanley Kubrick cited it as his all-time favorite movie, and screened it for guests in his home. I have it in the director approved Criterion DVD Special Edition version.
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