Oldboy (2013)
Spike Lee's 2013 remake of Park Chan-wook's Korean original. Josh Brolin and Sharlto Copley.
2010sSpike Lee's 2013 remake of Park Chan-wook's Korean original. Josh Brolin and Sharlto Copley.
1980sKurosawa's 1985 King Lear in feudal Japan. Three-hour battle epic with armies of 1,400 extras.
1950sKurosawa's 1957 Macbeth set in feudal Japan. The arrow finale is among the most committed practical-effects sequences ever filmed.
1960sKobayashi's 1962 anti-samurai film. The most ruthless dismantling of bushido ever committed to film.
1940sCurtiz's 1942 wartime romance. Holds every position it took during shooting.
1940sThe film film school built itself around. Deep focus, ceiling shots, fractured timeline.
1950s
1950sWilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
1970sForman's 1975 mental hospital drama. Nicholson as McMurphy, Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.
1970sPolanski's 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimism.
1940sHuston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
1940sChandler co-wrote with Wilder. Double Indemnity is the Billy Wilder-directed Paramount Pictures noir that became the canonical template for the genre's mature middle period.
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