My 10 favorite movies
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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsEmil JanningsMaly DelschaftMax HillerAn aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.My B&W favorite movie and best actor performance i've ever witnessed. Emil Jannings was truly impressive with this impersonation. The power of masks, uniforms and social roles. The power os aesthetics and constructed personas. Brilliant. I prefer the original ending to the happy ending.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsHugh JackmanRachel WeiszSean Patrick ThomasAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.Best love story put to movies. Love is without doubt beyond temporal measure or conditions. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz were the embodiment of love and desperation. Moving, meaningful and diffcult, just like love itself. Pure poetry in motion.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenOrlando BloomA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.Fantasy movies magnum opus. The movie i've seen more times in my life. Whenever it's being airplayed in the TV it gets me instantly hooked. The scope, characters, story adaptation, lore, the engaging soudntrack, the growing sense of urgency, the perfect equilibrium of comedy, drama and action. The first time i saw, i got profoundly upset at the end because i wanted to see much more of it.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni RibisiA fading movie star falls for a lonely young woman in Tokyo.Being a stranger in a strange land. A sense of not belonging. The whole world is alien to you. You fall inwards and become isolated and introspective. And then you find someone who's just like you. Lost in Translation is another perfect post modern love story.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtAfter investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.Alien mixes horror with sci fi in a way no other movie achieve before or after. The figure of the Alien is such a brilliant character. From the egg to the parasite and then to the chest burst to the xenomorph, it's the perfect journey of nightmare fuel. The sequel add more army stuff and action sequences, to please the blockbuster audiences, but i still think the first installment was close to perfection.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.Is reality real? This movie had us question reality itself. It's an sci fi action blockbuster movie but with brains. It makes very interesting questions with its deep technological deterministic distopia and it was a blast in the movie theaters. Saw it 3 times.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterWhen a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.The perfect sci fi movie. The best sequence transition in the history of film (when the ape like man points the bone to the sky and it transitions to the space station). Kubrick plays with sci fi and psychology.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Man and machine and the perfect society. The nietszchean übermensch is actually a female robot. Maybe the prognostic of a society shifting from a man made hell to a sensible female paradigm. However, the female robot is cold and calculating because she's a product of man made engineering. Perfect.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Will an android seek human nature? Will they dream? If so, they'll evolve a human conscious? Ridley Scott's best film. Everything is perfect, Ford and Hauer. The characterization and city's claustrophobic atmosphere. Soundtrack is flawless.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.Jim Carrey made a career out of comedies, but it's here where he performed best. Another post modern romance movie. Forgetting love, erasing experiences, trying to flush out the moments, only to realize that those experiments are you and you'll just erase yourself in the process of forgetting. Forgive, not forget.