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Shot in the dark, but you're the only woman in this thread

You are in love with the aesthetic of vulnerable masculinity and lonerism

I can tell you haven't seen a lot of movies, other than that idk what there is to glean. I assume you are a guy I guess

I think lots of people have top 10s where you actually can tell a lot about them, especially demographically (if your favorite movies are all Fincher anyone can tell you're a dude lol), but a lot of people just haven't seen that many movies and so there's not much to tell besides gender.

Orson Welles' The Stranger is a noir about hunting a nazi and was the first narrative film to feature footage from the camps. Hacked up by the studio, but still very good

The idea of a guy watching a movie about an abusive relationship that ends in violence and surmising that it's all in the woman's head is so fucking revealing about that dude.

I've only seen The Woman Who Ran, it's good and I've heard it's a good starting point

Boy in the Striped Pajamas is seen as grossly innacurate by Holocaust scholars, in a way that actually softens the Holocaust for drama. Watch Night and Fog, or at least Schindler's List.

Hong Sang-soo makes good movies

Casting a woman in that role is such an embarrassing whiff on subtext in the original movie, and ironically, it's specifically feminist subtext

The way Davis plays that character is also just an awful choice and makes it seem like she's hysterical and irrational

There's the once per decade Sight & Sound poll coming out in literally a day and a half from now, that's a good place to start lol

My favorite movies that tend to rank highly in general critic polls are 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Night of the Hunter, Badlands, Beau Travail, Persona, and Gertrud

Vertigo got 1.5x as many votes as any other movie with female critics last time (not saying that negatively, it's one of my favorite movies), and I think the gender distribution is only getting more even.

I've heard the new voter base also has way more British people for some reason, which probably helps Hitchcock (and also means The Third Man might finish inexplicably high)

> Shawshank won't be in the top 100

Shawshank Redemption isn't gonna get more than a few votes. It is in no way an important or interesting movie in the grand scheme of things

Add Repulsion, Through a Glass Darkly, and Images

Mystic River

The Sweet Hereafter

> That includes stuff like the 1902 classic “A Trip to the Moon.”

Which ironically is available in color!

> I kinda think Night of the Hunter straddles the line slightly

Night of the Hunter in my experience provokes reactions split 50/50 between "wow that was incredible I loved everything" and "that was really weird but it was neat I guess"

Just watch pre-1968 movies and you'll never have this problem

The phrasing of the line in After Hours is taken directly from Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial, which uses Before the Law as a prologue

Welles' The Trial is also (no offense to After Hours) a way better movie imo

Criterion Channel has most of what's considered the greatest non-English language films of all time, as well as as a lot of the really old English classics. Criterion also has some writing usually about why those movies are considered great/important

> It feels so Kafka-esque

It is an adaptation of The Trial

> This is a fantastic analysis: After Hours Analysis: Urban Wizard of Oz

It is literally an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial

Badlands (and also Days of Heaven and every other Malick movie)

The House is Black (short film)

La Jetee (also a short)

Bergman movies (particularly Persona and Wild Strawberries)

Literally every Tarkovsky movie (Mirror is my favorite that I've seen)

Most Coen Brothers movies (especially Barton Fink, Fargo, A Serious Man, and The Man Who Wasn't There)

Hard to be a God

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Adaptation

First Reformed

Being John Malkovich

Obi Wan looking at Luke before being cut down in Star Wars

"Fly, you fools" from Lord of the Rings (maybe?)

I just watched Mouchette and there's a couple scenes where women give things to the protagonist and try to signal that they've helped her

Hereditary and Aliens are two movies I just think are not very good and my friends and I have exhausted all remaining conversation about them without resorting to violence lol