an absolute list of films i’d like to watch (so far)
thanks to the Letterboxd community for always recommending the most unhinged pieces ever
Gummo, Harmony Korine (1997)
Hard Candy, David Slade (2005)
House, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike (2001)
Kids, Larry Clark (1995)
Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson (1994)
Oldboy, Park Chan-wook (2003)
Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, (1984)
Fantastic Planet, René Laloux (1973)
Punch Drunk-Love, Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
[REC], Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman (1975)
Shock Treatment, Jim Sharman (1981)
Sleepaway Camp, Robert Hiltzik (1983)
The Warriors, Walter Hill (1979)
Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty (1980)
Flowers for Algernon, Jeff Bleckner (2000)
Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan (1986)
The Machinist, Brad Anderson (2004)
Miller’s Crossing, Joel Coen (1990)
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
The Farewell, Lulu Wang (2019)
Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine (2009)
Pixote, Héctor Babenco (1980)
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine (1999)
Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)
Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta (2018)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Pianist, Roman Polanski (2002)
Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Blue Velvet, David Lynch (1986)
At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel (2018)
Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
Climax, Gaspar Noé (2018)
Shirkers, Sandi Tan (2018)
A Ghost Story, David Lowery (2017)
Carol, Todd Haynes (2015)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Hayao Miyazaki (1979)
Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Macon Blair (2017)
It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Buster’s Mal Heart, Sarah Adina Smith (2016)
Cam, Daniel Goldhaber (2018)
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Irek Dobrowolski (2018)
I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano (2018)
Skins, Eduardo Casanova (2017)
The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett (2016)
About Time, Richard Curtis (2013)
The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (2019)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh (2017)
Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (1994)
XX, Karyn Kusama & Jovanka Vuckovic & Roxanne Benjamin & St. Vincent (2017)
Cargo, Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke (2017)
Residue, Alex Garcia Lopez (2015)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne (2017)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella (2017)
Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld (2016)
Tallulah, Siân Heder (2016)
Expedition Happiness, Felix Starck & Selima Taibi (2017)
Bottom of the World, Richard Sears (2017)
Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips (2017)
Notes on Blindness, Pete Middleton & James Spinney (2016)
Newness, Drake Doremus (2017)
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Kelly Duane de la Vega (2019)
Paddleton, Alexandre Lehmann (2019)
Juanita, Clark Johnson (2019)
Temple, Michael Barrett (2017)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Bob Hercules & Rita Coburn Whack (2016)
P, Paul Spurrier (2005)
I Am Happiness on Earth, Julián Hernández (2014)
Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson (2016)
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses, David Stubbs (2015)
I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin (2016)
A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert (2015)
Q, Sanjeev Gupta (2017)
Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)
Brick, Rian Johnson (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001)
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016)
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch (2001)
Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Lake Mungo, Joel Anderson (2008)
War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg (2005)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
Mady, Panos Cosmatos (2018)
Raw, Julia Ducournau (2016)
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
The Love Witch, Anna Biller (2016)
Tusk, Kevin Smith (2014)
Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (2010)
A Serbian Film, Srđan Spasojević (2010)
Antichrist, Lars von Trier (2009)
Paprika, Satoshi Kon (2006)
Audition, Takashi Miike (1999)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam (1998)
Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon (1997)
Suspiria, Dario Argento (1977)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
Irreversible, Gaspar Noé (2002)
Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Hideshi Hino (1985)
I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noé (1998)
Begotten, E. Elias Merhige (1989)
Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)
Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier (2000)
Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
Honey Boy, Alma Har’el (2019)
The Inner Scar, Philippe Garrel (1972)
The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)
Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)
$9.99, Tatia Rosenthal (2008)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam (1979)
Blow-Up, Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989)
Christiane F., Uli Edel (1981)
Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde (1975)
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (2014)
Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (2019)
Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman (1957)
The Silence, Ingmar Bergman (1963)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (2019)
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)
Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell (2020)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer, Masaki Kobayashi (1961)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)
X, Ti West (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan (2022)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican (2022)
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live, Aaron Craig & Alex Craig (2017)
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras (2016)
The Wolf House, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (2018)
Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
Noisy Requiem, Yoshihiko Matsui (1988)
Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju (1960)
Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii (1985)
Dogville, Lars von Trier (2003)
Pink Flamingos, John Waters (1972)
Are you lost in the world like me?, Steve Cutts (2016)
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