a few ingredients
adrenaline, adultery, aids, airports, alcohol, amphetamine, amputations, angels,
answers, avenues, balloons, banks, barcodes, bars, baths, beds, bikers, bitches,
blackmails, blind, blood, blow jobs, boats, bodies, bonfires, books, bottles, boulevards,
bridges, bugaboos, bullets, buses, cabs, cactuses, cannibals, cards, cars, cavies, cellars, chameleons,
cia, cigarettes, cinemas, clinics, clocks, clouds, cops, corridors, corruption, crashes,
crossroads, crucifixes, cyberpunk, cyborgs, dances, dark ladies, dates, dawns, death, deflorations, demons,
desert, detectives, diamonds, docks, doomsday, doors, doves, dreams, drinks, drive-ins, drops,
drugs, dunes, ears, electrocutions, elevators, evil, exits, experiments, exploiters, explosions,
extortion, eyes, factories, faith, faucets, fbi, fear, fetus, fingers, fires, fists, flashbacks,
foes, fog, forgers, freedom, fucking, gamblers, gangsters, garages, gasoline, gobs, graves,
guns, guts, hallucinations, hara-kiri, hardcore, head-hunters, heroin, highways, homeless,
hong kong, hooks, hopeless, horses, hunger, ice cubes, incendiaries, incest, indians,
infanticides, initiations, jack-knives, jails, judges, jury, kamikazes, kidnappings, kung-fu,
lagers, lashes, las vegas, lips, lofts, loneliness, lovers, malls, manga, masochism, massacres,
masturbation, matricides, meadows, mirrors, misogyny, mob, money, monsters, moon, motor-cycles,
moving staircases, mud, murders, music, mutants, necklaces, necrophilism, neon, night-clubs,
nightmares, nimphomaniacs, nuns, oceans, orgies, oz, pain, parking, parks, parricides, parties,
piers, pirates, planes, poems, pupils, pursuits, pushers, pussies, questions, racism, radio,
railroads, rain, ransoms, rapes, records, revenge, rings, robberies, roofs, rooms, sadism, safes, sands,
sawing machines, scalps, scissors, serial killers, sex, shadowing, sheets, shootings, shop-windows,
showers, silos, skeletons, skulls, slum, smith & wesson, smog, smoke, snakes, snow, snuff
movies, sodomy, specters, sperm, spirals, stabs, stakes, stations, suicides, sunglasses,
sweat, swimming pools, syringes, teddy bears, teeth, temples, theatres, thieves, toasters,
tortures, towns, traffic-lights, trains, triads, trips, trucks, underground, uxoricides, uzi,
vampires, vietnam, virgins, voodoo, waitresses, water, wigs, winchesters, wind, wu xia pian,
xenomorphous, yakuza, zombi
that make up my favorite movies of the 80s, 90s, and 00s
- absolute power (clint eastwood)
- the abyss (james cameron)
- a chigatsu no kyohshikyoku (akira kurosawa)
- the addiction (abel ferrara)
- the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension (w.d. richter)
- the age of innocence (martin scorsese)
- airheads (michael lehmann)
- akira (katsuhiro otomo)
- alien resurrection (jean-pierre jeunet)
- aliens (james cameron)
- alphabet city (amos poe)
- amen. (costa-gavras)
- amores perros (alejandro gonzález iñárritu)
- angel dust (ishii sogo)
- l'anglaise et le duc (eric rohmer)
- any given sunday (oliver stone)
- l'argent (robert bresson)
- arizona dream (emir kusturica)
- army of darkness (sam raimi)
- as tears go by (wong kar-wai)
- at close range (james foley)
- avalon (mamoru oshii)
- backtrack (dennis hopper)
- bad company (damian harris)
- bad dreams (andrew fleming)
- bad influence (curtis hanson)
- batman returns (tim burton)
- before sunrise (richard linklater)
- the believer (henry bean)
- bianca (nanni moretti)
- the big easy (jim mcbride)
- big trouble in little china (john carpenter)
- black rain (ridley scott)
- black widow (bob rafelson)
- the blade (tsui hark)
- blade runner (ridley scott)
- the blair witch project (daniel myrick & eduardo sanchez)
- blood simple (joel coen)
- blow out (brian de palma)
- blue velvet (david lynch)
- breathless (jim mcbride)
- breaking the waves (lars von trier)
- the bride with white hair (ronnie yu)
- broadway danny rose (woody allen)
- candyman (bernard rose)
- carlito's way (brian de palma)
- caro diario (nanni moretti)
- casino (martin scorsese)
- cat people (paul schrader)
- the cell (tarsem singh)
- la chasse au papillons (otar ioseliani)
- a chinese ghost story (ching siu-tung)
- chung king express (wong kar-wai)
- city of hope (john sayles)
- cohen and tate (eric red)
- conte d'été (eric rohmer)
- creepshow (george a. romero)
- the crossing guard (sean penn)
- the crow (alex proyas)
- dark city (alex proyas)
- the dark half (george a. romero)
- darkman (sam raimi)
- day of the dead (george a. romero)
- dazed and confused (richard linklater)
- dead man (jim jarmusch)
- dead poets society (peter weir)
- the dead zone (david cronenberg)
- desperado (robert rodriguez)
- dogfight (nancy savoca)
- dogs in space (richard lowenstein)
- down by law (jim jarmusch)
- drifting clouds (aki kaurismäki)
- drugstore cowboy (gus van sant)
- dust devil (richard stanley)
- l'eau froide (olivier assayas)
- 8 million ways to die (hal ashby)
- empire records (allan moyle)
- escape from l.a. (john carpenter)
- escape from new york (john carpenter)
- even cowgirls get the blues (gus van sant)
- existenz (david cronenberg)
- le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain (jean-pierre jeunet)
- face/off (john woo)
- the faculty (robert rodriguez)
- fallen angels (wong kar-wai)
- family viewing (atom egoyan)
- far from heaven (todd haynes)
- fargo (joel coen)
- une flamme dans mon coeur (alain tanner)
- the fly (david cronenberg)
- 48 hrs (walter hill)
- the frightners (peter jackson)
- fright night (tom holland)
- full metal jacket (stanley kubrick)
- the funeral (abel ferrara)
- les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel (laurence ferreira barbosa)
- ghost in the shell (mamoru oshii)
- ghosts of mars (john carpenter)
- god's army (gregory widen)
- goodfellas (martin scorsese)
- guncrazy (tamra davis)
- hable con ella (pedro almodóvar)
- hana-bi (takeshi kitano)
- happy together (wong kar-wai)
- hard boiled (john woo)
- hard target (john woo)
- hardware (richard stanley)
- haut, bas, fragile (jacques rivette)
- heat (michael mann)
- heathers (michael lehmann)
- the hidden (jack sholder)
- hijos (marco bechis)
- the hitcher (robert harmon)
- hoop dreams (steve james)
- the hot spot (dennis hopper)
- impulse (sondra locke)
- internal affairs (mike figgis)
- in the mood for love (wong kar-wai)
- in the mouth of madness (john carpenter)
- jacob's ladder (adrian lyne)
- jennifer 8 (bruce robinson)
- johnny mnemonic (robert longo)
- jude (michael winterbottom)
- jumpin' jack flash (penny marshall)
- the killer (john woo)
- killing zoe (roger avary)
- the kingdom (lars von trier)
- king of new york (abel ferrara)
- ll ladro di bambini (gianni amelio)
- lantana (ray lawrence)
- the last starfighter (nick castle)
- light sleeper (paul schrader)
- liquid sky (slava tsukerman)
- little buddha (bernardo bertolucci)
- little odessa (james gray)
- lone star (john sayles)
- l.a. confidential (curtis hanson)
- lost highway (david lynch)
- m. butterfly (david cronenberg)
- manhunter (michael mann)
- the man who wasn't there (joel coen)
- el mariachi (robert rodriguez)
- married to the mob (jonathan demme)
- the matrix (the wachowsky brothers)
- mauvais sang (leos carax)
- memento (christopher nolan)
- la messa è finita (nanni moretti)
- metropolis (taro rin)
- miami blues (george armitage)
- miller's crossing (joel coen)
- mishima: a life in four chapters (paul schrader)
- ms. 45 (abel ferrara)
- mississippi blues (betrand tavernier & robert parrish)
- monkey shines (george a. romero)
- monster's ball (marc forster)
- moulin rouge (baz luhrmann)
- mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (pedro almodóvar)
- my beautiful laundrette (stephen frears)
- my own private idaho (gus van sant)
- naked (mike leigh)
- the naked lunch (david cronenberg)
- natural born killers (oliver stone)
- near dark (kathryn bigelow)
- nelly et monsiuer arnaud (claude sautet)
- nema-ye nazdik (abbas kiarostami)
- new jack city (mario van peebles)
- new rose hotel (abel ferrara)
- a nightmare on elm street (wes craven)
- nomads (john mctiernan)
- normal life (john mcnaughton)
- nuit et jour (chantal akerman)
- les nuits de la pleine lune (eric rohmer)
- one false move (carl franklin)
- l'ora di religione (marco bellocchio)
- the passion of darkly noon (philip ridley)
- la pianiste (michael haneke)
- the pillow book (peter greenaway)
- the pledge (sean penn)
- point break (kathryn bigelow)
- poltergeist (tobe hooper)
- predator (john mctiernan)
- prince of darkness (john carpenter)
- the princess bride (rob reiner)
- il principe di homburg (marco bellocchio)
- public access (bryan singer)
- pulp fiction (quentin tarantino)
- pump up the volume (allan moyle)
- the quick and the dead (sam raimi)
- raising arizona (joel coen)
- rampage (william friedkin)
- the rapture (michael tolkin)
- reality bites (ben stiller)
- the reflecting skin (philip ridley)
- the relic (peter hyams)
- rendez-vous (andré téchiné)
- les rendez-vous de paris (eric rohmer)
- reservoir dogs (quentin tarantino)
- reunion (jerry schatzberg)
- the right stuff (philip kaufman)
- the river (tsai ming-liang)
- les roseaux sauvages (andré téchiné)
- rumble fish (francis ford coppola)
- rush (lili fini zanuck)
- scanners (david cronenberg)
- scream (wes craven)
- the serpent and the rainbow (wes craven)
- session 9 (brad anderson)
- se7en (david fincher)
- shallow grave (danny boyle)
- the silence of the lambs (jonathan demme)
- simple men (hal hartley)
- a simple plan (sam raimi)
- six degrees of separation (fred schepisi)
- snake eyes (abel ferrara)
- society (brian yuzna)
- s.f.w. (jefery levy)
- something wild (jonathan demme)
- sonatine (takeshi kitano)
- spirited away (hayao miyazaki)
- spontaneous combustion (tobe hooper)
- stammheim (reinhard hauff)
- stand by me (rob reiner)
- starship troopers (paul verhoeven)
- stealing beauty (bernardo bertolucci)
- the straight story (david lynch)
- strange days (kathryn bigelow)
- stranger than paradise (jim jarmusch)
- strictly ballroom (baz luhrmann)
- suburbia (richard linklater)
- summer of sam (spike lee)
- sur mes lèvres (jacques audiard)
- swingers (doug liman)
- swordfish (dominic sena)
- the terminator (james cameron)
- terminator 2: judgment day (james cameron)
- tetsuo: the iron man (shinya tsukamoto)
- tetsuo II: body hammer (shinya tsukamoto)
- they live (john carpenter)
- things to do in denver when you're dead (gary fleder)
- the thin red line (terrence malick)
- tigerland (joel schumacher)
- tim burton's the nightmare before christmas (henry selick)
- titan a.e. (don bluth & gary goldman)
- to live and die in l.a. (william friedkin)
- traffic (steven soderbergh)
- 37º 2 le matin (jean-jacques beineix)
- trois couleurs: bleu (krzysztof kieslowski)
- true romance (tony scott)
- true stories (david byrne)
- twister (jan de bont)
- the unbelievable truth (hal hartley)
- underworld (roger christian)
- unforgiven (clint eastwood)
- the untouchables (brian de palma)
- the usual suspects (bryan singer)
- vampire's kiss (robert bierman)
- verso sud (pasquale pozzessere)
- videodrome (david cronenberg)
- violent cop (takeshi kitano)
- what's eating gilbert grape (lasse hallstrom)
- wild at heart (david lynch)
- william shakespeare's romeo and juliet (baz luhrmann)
- the year of living dangerously (peter weir)
- year of the dragon (michael cimino)
- zamri, oumri, voskreni (vitali kanevskij)
- zelig (woody allen)
- zir-e darakhtan-e zeytun (abbas kiarostami)