Redcafe Top 100 Movies: this time we're going to pull it off, honestly

R.N7 said:
I assumed as much.

Yeah, it's really good, people always seems to have a strong opinion of it though, they either love it or hate it.
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I'll get onto it ASAP.

Spoony said:
That's not a bad list, still think you ought to watch The Thin Red Line. Also... In The Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Raise the Red Lantern...
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Thanks mate, I'm also a touch reluctant doing lists like this because of the vast amount of films I've yet to see. I've seen In The Mood For Love, the others however I haven't.

Also I saw Ran and then proceeded to omit it (I forgot) from my list, that's how easy it is to edit/change things like this in an instant. I think Ran requires a few watches though, just like Lawrence.

Didn't find the time to rewatch The Thin Red Line either, sadly. Like Barry Lyndon, I'll get on it. The best thing about these lists is the suggestions and new finds.
 
Adzzz said:
Well, took me a while, still lots of film to see as I'm sure this list will change.


  1. Lawrence of Arabia

  2. Aguirre, The Wrath of God

  3. Apocalypse Now

  4. Rashomon

  5. Alien

  6. Ordet

  7. American Beauty

  8. Amadeus

  9. Vertigo

  10. Withnail & I

  11. The Madness of King George

  12. The Godfather

  13. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  14. Witness For The Prosecution

  15. Das Boot

  16. Leon the Professional

  17. Yojimbo

  18. Roman Holiday

  19. Blade Runner

  20. Sunset Blvd.

  21. Animal House

  22. Gandhi

  23. The Seventh Seal

  24. Sons of the Desert

  25. Scarface (1983)

  26. Duck Soup

  27. City Lights

  28. The Seven Samurai

  29. Key Largo

  30. Empire of the Sun

  31. Monty Python & the Holy Grail

  32. The Maltese Falcon

  33. The Lion King

  34. The Elephant Man

  35. The Sting

  36. Waterloo

  37. Rear Window

  38. Young Frankenstein

  39. M

  40. Rope

  41. Le Ballon Rouge

  42. Once Upon A Time In America

  43. Stalker

  44. Wild Strawberries

  45. Rome, Open City

  46. Brighton Rock

  47. Casablanca

  48. Modern Times

  49. Spirited Away

  50. Arsenic & Old Lace

  51. Oldboy

  52. Chinatown

  53. Le Mepris

  54. The Third Man

  55. The Battle of Algiers

  56. Monty Python & The Life of Brian

  57. Wizard People, Dear Reader***

  58. 2001: A Space Odyssey

  59. Scarface

  60. The Last Emperor

  61. Battle Royale

  62. Ice Cold In Alex

  63. Citizen Kane

  64. La Haine

  65. Hope and Glory

  66. Akira

  67. Taxi Driver

  68. Ichi The Killer

  69. The Wild Bunch

  70. Nightcrawler

  71. All Quiet On The Western Front

  72. Kundun

  73. Ghost in the Shell

  74. Last Year at Marienbad

  75. Do The Right Thing

  76. King Kong (1933)

  77. Tokyo Story

  78. The Blues Brothers

  79. Goodfellas

  80. The French Connection

  81. Dead Poet’s Society

  82. Lars & The Real Girl

  83. Iblard Jikan

  84. Birdman of Alcatraz

  85. Drive

  86. This Is Spinal Tap

  87. Rebecca

  88. A Bridge Too Far

  89. Three Colours: Red

  90. Barton Fink

  91. The Garden of Words

  92. The Longest Day

  93. Quo Vadis

  94. Amelie

  95. Schindler’s List

  96. From Russia With Love

  97. Jurassic Park

  98. Good Will Hunting

  99. Went The Day Well?
  100. Goldfinger
Some observations: I enjoy historical epics too much. I'm surprised more animation didn't feature but ultimately they had to be absolutely exceptional to get in atleast in my opinion.

***Wizard People, Dear Reader was never properly commercially released, I'm not sure if it really counts but I do think it's a genuine stand-alone piece of art and comedy film. It's one of the funniest films I've ever seen
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I love the novel Quo Vadis and it's the main reason I have yet to see the film. Do you like the Ben hur films, how do they compare?

Wizard people is a soundtrack dub that plays over the original? I'll give it a go.
 
I'm not sure I can make a list until I've seen In the Mood for Love and Once Upon a Time in the West based on other lists.
 
1. Last Tango in Paris
2. The Silence (Mohsen Malkmalbaf)
3. Blue Velvet
4. Come and See
5. Gummo
6. Hukkle
7. The Idiots
8. Happiness
9. Festen
10. Blue is the Warmest Color
11. Elephant
12. Dancer in the Dark
13. City of God
14. Trainspotting
15. The Apple
16. The Son
17. About Elly
18. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
19. The Sky Trembles and the Two Eyes are not your Brothers
20. Close Up
21. Dolls
22. Pulp Fiction
23. The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
24. Aguirre el Conquistador
25. The Class
26. Kandahar
27. Pixote
28. Through the Olive Trees
29. Kids
30. Turtles Can Fly
31. I´m Not There
32. Chalkboards
33. Where is the Friend´s Home
34. Oslo, 31st August
35. Delicatessen
36. Beau Travail
37. Le Cuatro Volte
38. Winter Sleep
39. Crumb
40. And Life Goes On
41. All That Jazz
42. Magnolia
43. Nashville
44. Barton Fink
45. Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall
46. Amour
47. La Luna (Bertolucci)
48. 11'09"01 September 11
49. Easy Rider
50. Nobody Know About Persian Cats
51. The Piano
52. Besieged
53. A Time For Drunken Horses
54. She´s Gotta Have It
55. The Wild Child
56. Timbuktu
57. Mulholland Drive
58. This Must Be the Place
59. Dersu Uzula
60. Stories We Tell
61. The Son´s Room
62. The Bird People of China
63. Colors: Red
64. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
65. A Clockwork Orange
66. Apocalypse Now
67. Crime and Misdemeanours
68. The Guitar Mongoloid
69. Rat Catcher
70. Taxi Driver
71. Amores Perros
72. Betty Blue
73. Pelle el Conquistador
74. La Vendedora de Rosas
75. Stranger than Paradise
76. Slacker
77. Elite Squad
78. Gozu
79. Reprise
80. MASH
81. XXY
82. Husbands and Wives
83. Bad Detective (Abel Ferrara)
84. Y Tu Mama También
85. Winnipeg
86. When Father was away on Business
87. Day for Night
88. Acid House
89. Reservoir Dogs
90. All About my Mother
91. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
92. Adaptation
93. Crash (Cronenberg)
94. Fanny and Alexander
95. Sex, Lies and Videotape
96. A Moment of Innocence
97. Silent House
98. I Killed My Mother
99. Two Years at Sea
100. Silent Light
 
dumbo said:
I love the novel Quo Vadis and it's the main reason I have yet to see the film. Do you like the Ben hur films, how do they compare?

Wizard people is a soundtrack dub that plays over the original? I'll give it a go.
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I do like Ben Hur, they compare in that they have some great performances, Quo Vadis doesn't quite have the major spectacle scene (at least not as big/famous as Ben Hurs) but definitely watch it.

Yeah, Brad Neely reinvents/bastardises/stream-of-consciousness the first Harry Potter film. It's what he think's the film and story is about and it's hilarious. It slowly builds up jokes and meta-jokes until it's just chaotic. I love it.
 
Didn't think there would be another person with XXY and Pixote in their list. Love your list @Nobby style ! I'll make sure to watch the ones I'm missing.
 
JustAFan said:
Just make your list based on the movies you have seen and don't be bothered if there are movies you have not seen on other people's list.
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Actually, one of the main points of this thread is really to get people to watch films based on others lists, the countdown is pretty secondary.
 
R.N7 said:
Yeah, great list @Nobby style Yay, for Gozu

I reckon you'd enjoy Wake in Fright...and possibly The Lovers on the Bridge.
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Thanks. Yeah, Lovers on the Bridge I´ve seen and could´ve easily included it. I´m a bit of a Denis Levant groupie and could´ve put Holy Motors on the list as well. I guess Beau Travail was his only movie I mentioned. Have been recommended Wake in Fright many times and will definitely be up for it.

@Peyroteo, I loved XXY and rate Argentine cinema. I remember watching Pixote in the early 80s at uni and being totally blown away as I had never seen anything quite like it, and believe it´s been massively influential, especially in Iranian cinema.
 
I thought I'd might just as well post this in here. I got reminded of In the Realm of the Senses yesterday and I remembered being annoyed after watching it a few years ago that I couldn't find the soundtrack anywhere, so I scoured the web for an hour and finally found the main theme and uploaded it to youtube.

 
1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Matrix
5. True Romance
6. The Departed
7. Inception
8. Toy Story
9. City of God
10. Alien
11. Pulp Fiction
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
13. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
14. Apocalypse Now
15. Back to the Future
16. 12 Angry Men
17. The Godfather: Part II
18. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
19. Snatch
20. Good Will Hunting
21. The Usual Suspects
22. Léon
23. The Thing
24. Toy Story 3
25. Schindler's List
26. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
27. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
28. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
29. Death Note
30. Fight Club
31. Boyz n the Hood
32. Cast Away
33. Interstellar
34. Die Hard
35. The Shining
36. 2001: A Space Odyssey
37. The Wolf of Wall Street
38. Baby Boy
39. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
40. The Silence of the Lambs
41. Goodfellas
42. Inside Out
43. Kick-Ass
44. The Lion King
45. The Green Mile
46. Gladiator
47. Blade Runner
48. American History X
49. The Truman Show
50. Memento
51. Stand by Me
52. Reservoir Dogs
53. Drive
54. Oldboy
55. Forest Gump
56. Raiders of the Lost Ark
57. Catch Me If You Can
58. Home Alone
59. The Sixth Sense
60. Training Day
61. The Social Network
62. Crash
63. Rocky
64. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
65. Amadeus
66. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
67. Into The Wild
68. The Wrestler
69. Goldfinger
70. I Saw the Devil
71. Sleepers
72. 25th Hour
73. Chopper
74. The Man Who Knew Too Little
75. Men of Honour
76. Menace II Society
77. Felon
78. Life
79. Running Scared
80. A Prophet
81. Finding Forrester
82. Paid in Full
83. The Conjuring 2
84. Mad Max: Fury Road
85. The Hateful Eight
86. Inglourious Basterds
87. Django Unchained
88. Ex Machina
89. The Prestige
90. Whiplash
91. Saving Private Ryan
92. Halloween
93. Aliens
94. No Country for Old Men
95. Pan's Labyrinth
96. Se7en
97. The Breakfast Club
98. The Big Lebowski
99. Mullholland Drive
100. The Grand Budapest Hotel

That was hard, taking off so many films that I really like. Started off with 184 and got to 110 and started struggling. But here it is.
 
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Aww man this seems insanely difficult. I will have a crack later on but I def think Apocalypse Now will be no1 on my list
 
Is a new date set yet? Might do this but have some films I wanna see first.
 
JustAFan said:
That's a great side effect helped even more if people just go with what they have seen so far. I'm not saying don't watch movies off of others list, just saying put your list out there as it exists today.
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I'm think I'm finally understanding what you're saying but it's also a good motivation to watch films if you wanna watch a few before posting the list.
Meller said:
Is a new date set yet? Might do this but have some films I wanna see first.
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Hmm, maybe a month? So, November 20th.
 
I just went ahead and threw in the whole top 250.

1. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
2. Chungking Express
3. Come and See
4. Ran
5. Stalker
6. The Godfather
7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
8. Wake in Fright
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. Days of Being Wild
11. Hiroshima Mon Amour
12. Amour
13. Fallen Angels
14. Solyaris
15. Naked
16. Oslo, August 31st
17. Happy Together
18. Ivan's Childhood
19. Metropolis
20. Blade Runner
21. In the Mood for Love
22. Apocalypse Now
23. The Big Lebowski
24. Hana-Bi
25. My Own Private Idaho
26. Casablanca
27. Ugetsu Monogatari
28. Barry Lyndon
29. Picnic at Hanging Rock
30. Tokyo Story
31. Persona
32. Mulholland Drive
33. Wild Strawberries
34. The Seventh Seal
35. Edvard Munch
36. Il Sorpasso
37. La Ceremonie
38. Crash (Cronenberg)
39. Spring in a Small Town
40. Five Easy Pieces
41. Lacombe Lucien
42. Akira
43. Kings of the Road
44. Le Boucher
45. A Brighter Summer Day
46. Port of Shadows
47. Ossessione
48. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
49. Close-Up
50. The Passenger (Antonioni)
51. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
52. Vertigo
53. King of Comedy
54. Seven Samurai
55. My Life As A Dog
56. Dogville
57. Once Upon a Time in America
58. Do the Right Thing
59. White Dog
60. Ariel (Kaurismäki)
61. In the Realm of the Senses
62. Nosferatu (1979)
63. The Royal Tenenbaums
64. The Battle of Algiers
65. La Dolce Vita
66. The Swimmer
67. Touki Bouki
68. The Fire Within
69. Written on the Wind
70. Bicycle Thieves
71. Some Came Running
72. A Man Escaped
73. Duck Soup
74. The Damned (Visconti)
75. The Servant
76. The Lovers on the Bridge
77. Princess Mononoke
78. Lawrence of Arabia
79. Blue Velvet
80. Suzhou River
81. Gummo
82. This Must Be the Place
83. A.I.
84. Mysteries of Lisbon
85. City of Pirates
86. The Skin I Live In
87. L'age d'or
88. Häxan
89. The General
90. The Thin Red Line
91. Bad Timing
92. Punishment Park
93. Dog Day Afternoon
94. I'm Not There
95. Days of Heaven
96. Ida
97. Blow-Up
98. Under the Skin
99. La Jetée
100. Fantastic Planet


101. Barton Fink
102. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
103. Welcome to the Dollhouse
104. Veronika Voss
105. The Last Temptation of Christ
106. La Grande Illusion
107. Last Year at Marienbad
108. Modern Times
109. Andrei Rublev
110. Raise the Red Lantern
111. I Am Cuba
112. Performance
113. Sunset Boulevard
114. Once Upon a Time in the West
115. Gozu
116. The Hustler
117. The Tin Drum
118. Bad Lieutenant
119. Ratcatcher
120. Man with a Movie Camera
121. Paris, Texas
122. 2046
123. Cries and Whispers
124. The Decalogue
125. La Collectionneuse
126. fecking Åmål
127. Kids Return
128. Stand by Me
129. Ballad of a Soldier
130. Distant Voices, Still Lives
131. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
132. Elvira Madigan
133. Angel's Egg
134. Alice in the Cities
135. Black Girl
136. Zodiac
137. Summer with Monika
138. The Last Seduction
139. Ghost in the Shell
140. Kwaidan
141. Vivre sa vie
142. Strangers on a Train
143. La Haine
144. The Maltese Falcon
145. A City of Sadness
146. Ashes of Time Redux
147. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
148. Le jour se lève
149. Harakiri
150. Y tu mamá también
151. Velvet Goldmine
152. The Shining
153. In the Name of the Father
154. All the President's Men
155. All Quiet on the Western Front
156. Pulp Fiction
157. Claire's Knee
158. Falkenberg Farewell
159. Road to Perdition
160. Hour of the Wolf
161. Hero
162. Charade
163. 8½
164. The End of Evangelion
165. Sanjuro
166. Miller's Crossing
167. Stagecoach
168. Satantango
169. The Straight Story
170. It Happened One Night
171. Tess
172. The Grapes of Wrath
173. King of New York
174. The Merchant of Four Seasons
175. Nosferatu (1922)
176. Adaptation.
177. The Music Room
178. Snowtown
179. The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
180. Exotica
181. Network
182. Point Blank
183. The American Friend
184. Cure
185. L'Avventura
186. Withnail & I
187. Christiane F.
188. Castle in the Sky
189. The Pianist
190. A Swedish Love Story
191. Breathless
192. Involuntary
193. Gimme Shelter
194. Lilya 4-Ever
195. Raven's End
196. The Third Man
197. Cul-De-Sac
198. Shadow of a Doubt
199. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
200. Sunday Bloody Sunday
201. Mysterious Skin
202. Hausu
203. The African Queen
204. Repulsion
205. My Night at Maud's
206. Such a Pretty Little Beach
207. Tale of Tales (1979)
208. Reindeerspotting
209. Crumb
210. Belle De Jour
211. Le Samourai
212. Dr. Strangelove
213. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
214. A Respectable Life
215. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
216. Singin' in the Rain
217. Santa Sangre
218. Woman in the Dunes
219. Girl With Hyacinths
220. Gegen die Wand
221. Fish Tank
222. The Room
223. Four Nights of a Dreamer
224. Dolls
225. Sans Soleil
226. Manoel's Destinies
227. Jean de Florette
228. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
229. Reprise
230. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
231. Slam
232. Lone Star
233. Vive L'Amour
234. Perfect Blue
235. The Wild Child
236. Shadows in Paradise
237. My American Uncle
238. Night on the Galactic Railroad
239. Deep End
240. Plein Soleil
241. Two-Lane Blacktop
242. Out of the Blue (1980)
243. Happy-Go-Lucky
244. Fuego en Castilla
245. Cat Soup
246. The Gold Rush
247. Zabriskie Point
248. The New World
249. La Notte
250. Meshes of the Afternoon
 
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Man, lots to watch there. I've got nothing but time for the next few months so will try and catch up on some Nillson-vision. Good to see a number of Australian filmmakers.

You and Korine though. Gummo is horrendous.
 
Archie Leach said:
Man, lots to watch there. I've got nothing but time for the next few months so will try and catch up on some Nillson-vision. Good to see a number of Australian filmmakers.

You and Korine though. Gummo is horrendous.
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See to it that you do! I nearly put Witness at #250.

How can you not enjoy stuff like a drunk guy wrestling a chair??
 
When's deadline? I've just gotta make one or two small edits.
 
Archie Leach said:
It's all pretty gross. It seems Schneider spoke about it for years and was basically ignored.
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Bertolucci has clarified that the violence was in the script but that the use of butter wasn't. It's a pretty sad story all around though.

I'm kinda annoyed at people like Chris Evans tweeting about it, who's never seen the film or probably any arthouse film ever.
 
Archie Leach said:
its not really relevant whether you've seen the film but it's a bit rich for someone who's worked in the industry as long as he has to feign surprise, as Anna Kendrick pointed out.
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Yeah, was Evans the one that cried at the Oscars? Just strikes me as an opportunistic phoney, a living embodiment of Hollywood.

Damn, I really shouldn't let my hatred for him get tangled up in this.
 
Ubik said:
1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
3. The Godfather Part I (1972)
4. 12 Angry Men (1957)
5. Yojimbo (1961)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. Seven Samurai (1954)
9. Harakiri (1962)
10. Chinatown (1974)
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
12. Tokyo Story (1953)
13. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
14. Ran (1985)
15. The Human Condition (1959)
16. Alien (1979)
17. Double Indemnity (1944)
18. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
19. The Godfather Part II (1974)
20. Mulholland Drive (2001)
21. Rashomon (1950)
22. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
23. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
24. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
25. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
26. Network (1976)
27. Taxi Driver (1976)
28. Mirror (1975)
29. City of God (2002)
30. Sound of the Mountain (1954)
31. Dr Strangelove (1964)
32. Annie Hall (1977)
33. Blue Velvet (1986)
34. Rear Window (1954)
35. The Apartment (1960)
36. Stand By Me (1986)
37. Persona (1966)
38. Days of Heaven (1978)
39. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
40. Cries and Whispers (1972)
41. Oldboy (2003)
42. Citizen Kane (1941)
43. Casablanca (1942)
44. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
45. The Prestige (2006)
46. Brazil (1985)
47. Late Spring (1949)
48. Metropolis (1927)
49. Magnolia (1999)
50. Ugetsu (1953)
51. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
52. LA Confidential (1997)
53. City Lights (1931)
54. Memento (2000)
55. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
56. Let the Right One In (2008)
57. Kagemusha (1980)
58. The Shining (1980)
59. The Conversation (1974)
60. Groundhog Day (1993)
61. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
62. Fargo (1996)
63. Army of Shadows (1969)
64. The Elephant Man (1980)
65. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
66. The Lives of Others (2006)
67. The Killing (1956)
68. La Jetée (1962)
69. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
70. Three Colours (1993)
71. The Big Lebowski (1998)
72. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
73. Night of the Hunter (1955)
74. Amadeus (1984)
75. Psycho (1960)
76. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
77. Aliens (1986)
78. Spirited Away (2001)
79. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
80. Vertigo (1958)
81. Badlands (1973)
82. Rushmore (1998)
83. Touch of Evil (1958)
84. Out of the Past (1947)
85. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
86. Secrets and Lies (1996)
87. High and Low (1963)
88. The Player (1992)
89. Solyaris (1972)
90. The Right Stuff (1983)
91. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
92. The Big Sleep (1946)
93. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
94. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
95. Schindler's List (1993)
96. Wall-E (2008)
97. Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
98. Sherlock Jr. (1928)
99. Ju Dou (1990)
100. Amelie (2001)


Been very harsh on more recent films for some reason but I'm sure they can handle it.

EDITED - Added in Secrets and Lies and Stand By Me. The Hidden Fortress and Paris, Texas drop out.
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Okay, made the above edits to mine, I'll finalise it there.
 
It's very Ozu-ish, even has Setsuko Hara as the lead. Woman living with her husband and parents-in-law, her husband is a cheating bumhole and the only connection she has is with the father-in-law, who is himself increasingly depressed about his family and work life. 30 might be a bit high for it but I'm high on post-war Japanese cinema right now.

I'd say I didn't recognise a solid two thirds of your list :lol:
 
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