Hello everyone! We decided to make a post dedicated to picking movies! Please comment below with any suggestions you have for monthly themes or individual movies. We’ll curate some of them into groups of four movies that we could potentially use for future months. None of these are set in stone, and will likely evolve over time based on your suggestions. We won’t be able to list every movie you suggest here (there are so many!) but that doesn’t mean we won’t pick it at some point in the future. They’re all on the table!
New Releases: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Fabelmans, Avatar: The Way of Water, Glass Onion, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Banshees of Inisherin,
Music (but not musicals) Month: Amadeus, Whiplash, Almost Famous, Tar, Inside Llewyn Davis, This Is Spinal Tap
Computer Movies: The Imitation Game, War Games, Office Space, Her
Romantic Comedies: When Harry Met Sally, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Lobster, The Philadelphia Story
Spy Movies: Spy Game, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, No Way Out, Three Days of the Condor
Dance Movies: Saturday Night Fever, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Dirty Dancing, The Red Shoes
Love Triangles: The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gone With the Wind, Days of Heaven
Classic Romances: Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Casablanca, Shakespeare in Love
Family Drama: Bicycle Thieves, Still Walking, The Squid and the Whale,
Road Trip Movies: Planes Trains & Automobiles, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Little Miss Sunshine
Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,
Trippy Movies: Being John Malkovich, Enter the Void, The Holy Mountain, Enter the Void, Bliss, Irma Vep, The Bothersome Man, Color Out of Space
The Best of Technicolor: The Wizard of Oz, Fantasia, Leave Her to Heaven, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The River, Niagara
Underrated When They Were Released: Starship Troopers, Tron, The Thing, Scarface (1983), Hook
Corpo-dystopia: Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, RoboCop, The Insider
Art Film Month #1: Blue Velvet, In the Mood for Love, The Thin Red Line, Tampopo
Art Film Month #2: An Elephant Sitting Still, Stalker, The Seventh Seal, Last Year at Marienbad
Bleak Future: Metropolis, Akira, Children of Men, Mad Max: Fury Road
Movies Based on a Play: A Streetcar Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fences
AI/Cyborg/Artificial Life: Blade Runner (The Final Cut), Ex Machina, The Terminator, Ghost in the Shell
Psychological Thriller: Transsiberian, Perfect Blue, Silence of the Lambs, The Lighthouse
Christmas Movies: Batman Returns, Home Alone, Klaus, Die Hard
Unlikable Main Character: Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver, Gone With the Wind, There Will Be Blood, Heathers
Mob Movies: The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Irishman, Scarface (1932)
Scary Movies (for Halloween): The Shining, Psycho, The Witch, Halloween
You Are Being Watched: The Conversation, Rear Window, The Truman Show, Enemy of the State
Time Travel: Looper, Back to the Future, Primer, Edge of Tomorrow
Westerns: The Power of the Dog, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven, The Searchers
Musicals: West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain, Moulin Rouge!, Cabaret
Ensemble Movies: Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, 12 Angry Men, Spotlight
Fractured Identity: Mulholland Drive, American Psycho, Fight Club, Vertigo
Stop Motion Animation: Anomalisa, Kubo and the Two Strings, King Kong, Isle of Dogs
Horror Comedies: Cabin in the Woods, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Gremlins
Hollywood: The Player, Barton Fink, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Hail Caesar!
Casey and Anna Movie Suggestions: Shakespeare in Love, Bullets Over Broadway, The Big Lebowski, Synecdoche New York, I Heart Huckabees, Apocalypse Now, Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai
Hey Anna and Casey,
I love your podcast! One movie that caught me by surprise recently was the 1993 film “A Perfect World” directed by Clint Eastwood. I did not expect to be so emotionally invested and engaged with a movie going in semi-blind. I usually don’t sit through a movie without pausing and looking at my phone a bit because I often up not connecting with the film enough, but this one didn’t find me doing that. Based on your criticisms and praise of other films, I think there’s a good chance you’d both really like “A Perfect World”. It’s both intense and relaxing, smartly written, evokes a variety of emotions, and even has a bit of a literary quality while being very accessible (smart but accessible is one of my favorite combos in art!). Check it out if you have the time :)
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