Metaphysical Movie Lists
Posted by kamarling at 20:42, 30 Aug 2010Any list-makers out there? You know, the kind described in the movie Hi Fidelity? "My top 5 ... of all time". That kind of list.
Ok - well, I have a movie rental deal and I need to choose two a month. I love movies with a bit of philosophical depth but I'm running low on titles. I'd also be interested in your favourites, even if they are on my (or anyone's) list. So I'll start the ball rolling with 10 of my best (in no particular order):
Matrix Trilogy
Blade Runner
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Thirteenth Floor
The Truman Show
2001
The Sixth Sense
Dark City
Jacob's Ladder
Twin Peaks (Fire Walk With Me)
I'll probably kick myself for leaving out some absolute classics but that's why I'm throwing this open for comment. I enjoy foreign language (subtitled) films too so don't hold back :)
Enjoy.
Davd.
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22 November 2004
2 weeks 12 hours
Solaris
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We are the cat.
30 April 2004
3 hours 38 min
Any list-makers out there? You know, the kind described in the movie Hi Fidelity? "My top 5 ... of all time". That kind of list.
Ok - well, I have a movie rental deal and I need to choose two a month. I love movies with a bit of philosophical depth but I'm running low on titles. I'd also be interested in your favourites, even if they are on my (or anyone's) list. So I'll start the ball rolling with 10 of my best (in no particular order)
Funny you should bring this up, I've been meaning to post a feature for a while listing my favourite movies that question what reality is! May as well use this thread as a place to discuss ideas though. :)
Kind regards,
Greg
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You monkeys only think you're running things
@DailyGrail
30 April 2004
3 hours 38 min
Matrix Trilogy
Blade Runner
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Thirteenth Floor
The Truman Show
2001
The Sixth Sense
Dark City
Jacob's Ladder
Twin Peaks (Fire Walk With Me)
Here was my rough list - as you can see, a number in common with you:
* The Matrix
* Jacob's Ladder
* Vanilla Sky
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
* Total Recall
* Solaris
* Shutter Island
* Moon
* Mulholland Drive
* Inception
Kind regards,
Greg
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You monkeys only think you're running things
@DailyGrail
14 April 2009
1 hour 38 min
Off the top of me magpie mind:
I <3 Huckabees(2004)
Magnolia (1999)
Time Bandits/Brazil/Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Seventh Seal (1957)
On the Beach (1959)
Stalker (1979)
Waking Life (2001)
Dogma (1999)
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Dead Man (1995)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Smoke (1995)
Dreamscape (1984)
Cool World (1992)
Eraserhead (1976)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Videodrome (1983)
Millions (2004)
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991)
The Lost Room (2006)
Signs (2002)
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
24 April 2009
1 week 5 days
The Fountain
Ghost in the Shell
Kingdom of Heaven
Spirited Away
Moon
Caprica (Pilot & Series)
Ergo Proxy (Pilot & Series)
Being John Malkovich
Inception
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Clockwork Orange
District 9
--Cuisvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare
26 June 2005
2 days 23 hours
Yeah: Vanilla Sky, Moon, Solaris - and Spirited Away ... all good.
I would like to have included "What Dreams May Come" but I thought it a bit too Hollywood for my taste. I understand the book was much better but I haven't read it so can't say. I've just ordered "Somewhere in Time" although I think I saw it when it was first released. It is from a book by the same author as "What Dreams May Come" (Richard Matheson).
Dave.
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10 August 2004
5 hours 40 min
Great movie - particuarly the music (Rachmaninov's variation on a theme by Paganini). Wouldn't mind a copy but can't find one - where are you sourcing yours please?
Regards, Kathrinn
26 June 2005
2 days 23 hours
Great movie - particuarly the music (Rachmaninov's variation on a theme by Paganini). Wouldn't mind a copy but can't find one - where are you sourcing yours please?
It's a DVD rental by post company in the UK called LoveFilm. I think NetFlix in the USA is similar.
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2 May 2004
4 hours 43 min
German director Wim Wenders has a few good ones:
Wings of Desire
Faraway, So Close
Until The End Of The World
A few others:
The Mosquito Coast
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Paprika
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
The Name of the Rose
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
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@levitatingcat
1 May 2004
11 hours 38 min
I'll add The Butterly Effect, Mirror Mask, Labyrinth, Stardust, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Hellraiser, The Cube, They Live, Pan's Labyrinth, The Golden Child, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, Franklyn, Nightbreed, Deja Vu and Frequency. I'll add some more if I can think of any other. I'm sure there are a few more surreal stuff out there I have forgot about.
31 August 2010
1 year 22 weeks
just to add to this list. Here are a few off the top of my head:
By Alejandro Jodorowsky
- El Topo
- The Holy Mountain
By Pan Nalin
- Valley of Flowers
- Samsara
- Orlando
- Lathe of Heaven
- Bliss (fantastic Australian film)
- Bliss (with Terence Stamp)
- Little Buddha
8 March 2010
5 days 12 hours
Edit
Step Through.
8 March 2010
5 days 12 hours
By Alejandro Jodorowsky
- El Topo
- The Holy Mountain
I am with you all the way on those two, brother!
I haven't seen the other ones you mentioned.Do they have occult/mystical leanings as well?
Step Through.
20 March 2006
8 weeks 6 days
Dr. Strangelove with Peter Sellers.
26 June 2005
2 days 23 hours
Dr. Strangelove with Peter Sellers.
Oh yes, oh yes. :)
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15 July 2010
21 weeks 6 days
Hi guys,
i'm kind of wondering why nobody mentioned these next 2:
"The Fountain" (2006) by Darren Aronofsky... Really good!
And "Donnie Darko" (2001) which is also very good.
I'd also mention a film by Tarsem Singh entitled "The Fall" (2006) which is also muy bueno, visually and story wise.
Some people already mentioned other favorites like "Dark City", "The Matrix", "Blade Runner", "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind"...
If i remember some more i'll post here!
Cheers,
Manny
9 May 2010
48 weeks 1 day
Personally...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Moon
Holy Mountain (only for the ending)
A Beautiful Mind (right?)
The Matrix (just the first, but the other 2 ain't bad)
and any phycological thiller dealing with psuedoscience or metaphysics
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•
26 November 2007
1 year 22 weeks
The Saragossa Manuscript.
Being There, another Peter Sellers gem.
Hal
21 June 2008
1 day 13 hours
Here are two that may not exactly fit your category. They are skeptical, but fictional, films about popular metaphysical beliefs. They're from the 90s so they might feel dated (or maybe not). They're both directed by Michael Tolkin.
The Rapture
The New Age
12 April 2007
17 min 51 sec
Here's some of my faves (in no particular order):
*1st Matrix movie (well, duh!)
*Pan's Labyrinth
*2001
*6th Sense
*Dark City
*The City of Lost Children (French movie, very good)+
*Altered States (closest thing to a Castañeda film)
*Defending Your Life (funny but thoughtful)
*Brainstorm (using thought-scanning to record a NDE!)
*Rosemary's Baby
*Abre los Ojos (original from which Vanilla Sky was based)
*Los Otros (The Others)
*Truman Show
*13th Floor
*Existenz
*El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
*Big Fish
*Groundhog Day (Best Bill Murray movie ever... outside Ghostbusters)
*A Beautiful Mind
*Lost Horizon
*The Black Hole
*Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (this is bat country!)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
9 May 2010
48 weeks 1 day
*Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (this is bat country!)
What he said!
"We're all puppets, Jesus. I'm just the one that sees the strings, the stage, the puppetmaster, and the audience." Exerpt from a dialog Jesus and I had in your kitchen a week ago • • •*• •°•