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Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10

The Friends of Eddie Coyle : This is a superb and uncompromising adaptation of George V. Higgins’s bleak masterpiece ...

Eyes Without a Face

Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10

Eyes Without a Face : Georges Franju’s eerie, face-transplant melodrama has stuck in my memory since the first...

The Battle of Algiers

Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10

The Battle of Algiers : The film that politicized me overnight. It’s riveting, multidimensional agitprop with a ...

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Chungking Express

Martin Scorsese’s Top 10

Paisan

Martin Scorsese’s Top 10

Paisan : In My Voyage to Italy, the documentary that we made about Italian cinema, we started wit...

The Red Shoes

Martin Scorsese’s Top 10

The Red Shoes : I’ve said and written so much about this picture over the years; for me it’s always been...

The River

Martin Scorsese’s Top 10

The River : The years right after the war were a very special time in cinema, all around the world. ...

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Ugetsu

Flying Lotus’s Top 10

Being John Malkovich

Flying Lotus’s Top 10

Being John Malkovich : This is one of my favorite films of all time. This film really showed me that we can sti...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Flying Lotus’s Top 10

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : Now another one of my all-time favorites. Who doesn’t want a bangin’ red convertible and...

Do the Right Thing

Flying Lotus’s Top 10

Do the Right Thing : Beautiful film, great transfer, makes me miss New York every time I watch it.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10

The 400 Blows

Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10

The 400 Blows : The most beautiful feature film debut in the history of cinema. I’m extremely curious ab...

Fanny and Alexander

Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10

Fanny and Alexander : The most beautiful ending to a feature film career in the history of cinema. And the mos...

The Ballad of Narayama

Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10

The Ballad of Narayama : I would like to compare the film to The Ballad of Narayama by Shohei Imamura and Goryeoj...

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Things to Come

Reggie Watt’s Top 10

Brazil

Reggie Watt’s Top 10

Brazil : This is an amazing film, so visually stunning and strange and melancholic. It’s a good f...

Breathless

Reggie Watt’s Top 10

Breathless is a film very much about passion and life lived solely by the fuel of passion, which is v...

PlayTime

Reggie Watt’s Top 10

PlayTime is an incredible film. I just love the idea of staging scenes that look familiar but don’t...

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Dazed and Confused

Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10

A Woman Under the Influence

Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10

A Woman Under the Influence Gena Rowlands is one of my heroes. She and Cassavetes mean a lot to me, and the two have i...

Opening Night

Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10

Opening Night I feel a personal connection to Rowlands because, like she was, I’m married to a director ...

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul When I was in film school at NYU, I remember being introduced to Fassbinder with The Marri...

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Bicycle Thieves

King Princess’s Top 10

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

King Princess’s Top 10

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Before I was even allowed to watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I would listen to the soundt...

This Is Spinal Tap

King Princess’s Top 10

This Is Spinal Tap Making fun of the music industry never gets old, and This Is Spinal Tap is so comically ac...

Bound

King Princess’s Top 10

Bound has always just sung to me. It’s a really interesting noir and lesbian romance with a grea...

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