#7films to know me. No, 7 it's just impossible. I change the rules 😅

— T. Browning - Freaks
— F. Fellini - La Strada
— Henson & Oz - The Dark Crystal
— W. Wenders - Wings of Desire
— P. Weir - Dead Poets Society
— Caro & Jeunet - The City of Lost Children
— D. Boyle - Trainspotting
— T. Vinterberg - The Celebration
— S. Mendes - American Beauty
— M. Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
— Lars von Trier - Melancholia
— X. Dolan - It's Only the End of the World

1. The Terminator
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Momento
4. American Psycho
5. Shutter Island
6. The Game
7. A Million Little Pieces

#7Films

I'll do #7albums and #7films some other time.

Try to contain your excitement.

Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [12/12]:

Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962)
Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes (1993)
Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand (2004)
Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell (1987)
Martin Ritt’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987)

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Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [11/12]:

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow (2020)
Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas (2022)
Béla Tarr’s Satantango (1994)
Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979)
Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners & I (2000)
Burt Kennedy’s Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker’s Top Secret (1984)

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#7FilmsToKnowMe #7Films

What a tough list, and so open to interpretation. Here are 7 films I love (shortlist was 70+):

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Haunting (1963)
Nosferatu (1979)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Spring of Joy (Glädjekällan, 1993)

Also love Gunnar Björnstrand, Peter Capaldi, Jean Cocteau, Peter Cushing, Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Toshiro Mifune, Hayao Miyazaki, Vincent Price, Jan Švankmajer, Anton Walbrook . . .

Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [10/12]:

Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980)
Justin Kurzel’s Nitram (2021)
Milos Forman’s Taking Off (1971)
Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954)
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985)
Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
Maurice Pialat’s À nos amours (1983)

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Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [9/12]:

Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021)
Terry Jones’s Life of Brian (1979)
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Wim Wenders’s Until the End of the World (Director's Cut) (1991)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Passion According to Andrei (1966)
George Roy Hill’s The World According to Garp (1982)

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Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [8/12]:

Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void (2009)
Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Christian Petzold’s Wolfsburg (2003)
Charles Chaplin’s Limelight (1952)
Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life (1956)
Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Fred Niblo’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)

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Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [7/12]:

Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mikio Naruse’s Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens (1982)
Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View (1974)
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning (2018)
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

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Favourite #7films watched in 2022 [6/12]:

Julien Duvivier’s Un carnet de bal (1937)
Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1961)
Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight (1986)
Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12 (2013)
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021)
Terry Jones’s The Meaning Of Life (1983)
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog (1999)

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“Jackie Brown” remains my favorite Tarantino, although Hateful Eight gave it a run for its money. Jackie Brown is gritty, sexy, clever and felt very “adult” to my teenaged self, whatever that means now. It’s also a story about people who are past their prime and maybe looking for one more shot at glory, and that gets more relatable to me every day. #7films

“The Last Temptation of Christ” asks the important question: “What if Jesus fucked Mary Magdalene?” Or at least that’s the only thing every evangelical Christian in my circle at the time seemed to think that movie was about, having not seen it of course. Christians are remarkably good at rejecting things on hearsay and rumor. In reality, the film’s framework let’s us explore the fully human side of Jesus, and in the end is remarkably triumphant, even for this cranky atheist. #7films

“The Wicker Man” just scares the hell out of me. It’s a horror movie, sure. And it’s brimming with folklore and ritual. But the real horror is regular people following a belief to its extreme, no supernatural assistance required. Also I really liked that first Sneaker Pimps record and was blown away when I first watched the film and learned that “How Do” was taken from it. #7films

I watched “Blue Velvet” for the first time in a film class in college. Somehow, despite endless analysis, that movie still remains a mystery to me in some ways. Lynch taught me that movies don’t owe you a character that pauses to explain to the audience what the hell is going on. In fact, most movies would be better if they explained less. #7films

I watched “Blue Velvet” for the first time in a film class in college. Somehow, despite endless analysis, that movie still remains a mystery to me in some ways. Lynch taught me that movies don’t owe you a character that pauses to explain to the audience what the hell is going on. In fact, most movies would be better if they explained less. #7films

“Trainspotting” hit me at a very specific time in my life when I came to the realization that I was never going to be the person that seemed expected of me, that I had to accept and even embrace who I actually was, at that moment, to hell with what other people thought. Also that soundtrack, sweet Jesus that soundtrack. It forever altered the trajectory of my taste in music. #7films

“Barry Lyndon” taught me that main characters need not be perfect or even likable to be compelling. (See also: “Nightcrawler”) Lit entirely with natural light using a fancy big lens, every scene looks like a painting by a master. #7films

“Eyes Wide Shut” is a folk horror film. Brimming with menace and elegance and casual absurdity. The blurring of dreams and reality. Love and relationships and secrets and betrayal and confessions. Kidman and Cruise at the height of their powers. The masked ball scene remains of the most haunting and beautiful sequences I’ve ever seen. #7films

Seems silly to just throw these lists out sans context. Why these, you might ask. Well, pull up a chair, friends, and I’ll tell you. #7films