^^^ :D
i've got too many, i find this really tough. there are a few films which i *can* always go back to and enjoy though. if you'd asked me this time last year, i would have said
mulholland drive. i think i've gotten as much as i possibly can out of it now (for the moment, anyway), and it has thus slipped a little in my mind. i still think it's an absolutely brilliant piece of art, but perhaps isn't so ahead in my mind as it used to be.
so...i would have to pick from
amelie (i watched this five times in a week a few months back, when i first bought the dvd - this is not something i would normally do),
le mepris (
contempt in english - godard's greatest film, starring bridget bardot...an absolutely amazing study of a human relationship and emotions),
fight club (i can't say enough about this, really...it's all about style though), and
lost in translation.
i'm pretty big on aesthetics and cinematography, and the above films illustrate everything that i love about the cinema. but what elevates them, for me, is the insight which they each offer into *real people*. in each of these movies i feel a human connection that goes beyond anything else i've seen. of course
amelie is a fantasy, but it has so many of those little touches of joy that make life worth living on the odd occasion that i actually feel that way.
contempt is *the* break-up movie. it's so so so so so true to life that it's not funny. to me, i just enjoy watching the fact that godard has *such* an understanding of human relationships, and i love the way he shows us visually.
lost in translation is similarly, just
real. i can't describe it any further than that.
and though
fight club is fairly strangely cartoonish, i relate to a lot of its nihillistic kind of thematics. it's got some fairly nice neo-philosophising, too
