1 | Dorian Gray (2009) - Oliver Parker | Best Portrait | | An 'Art Deal' with Mephisto and a steady 'Decent into the Maelström' begins |
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2 | Valley Of The Dolls - Mark Robson | Best Dolophine | | A Sharon Tate film - great because it's so bad - dolls are 'downers' - cult classic on YouTube |
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3 | The Riot Club - Lone Scherfig | Best Oxford Club | | Aristocratic Oxford 10 - hedonism - dinner - partys - raucous behavior - all the best stuff |
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6 | Scarface (1983) - Oliver Stone | Best Cocaine | | Drugs, oblivion, rad, extreme, unforgettable |
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7 | 1984 - Michael Radford | Best Hysteria | | On the verge ov hysteria leading up to 1984, rad, out there and the 'Thought Police' |
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8 | Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau | Best Creepy Walk | | Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent's wife. |
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9 | Bagdad Café - Percy Adlon | Best Bleak Cafe | | Rad, bleak, dusty, desert and somehow very arthouse |
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10 | V/H/S/2 - Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard & others | Best Phone Movie | | Apparently made on phones, remote cams, computer cams etc - dark, rad & wack |
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11 | God Help The Girl - Stuart Murdoch | Best Out The Window | | Gentle escape now and then from the 'Luney Bin', friends making music, the joy ov living |
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12 | The Exorcist - William Friedkin | Best Possessed | | Truly unforgettable, extreme possession, rad and out there |
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13 | Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo | Best Ballet Heist | | Needs a girlfriend standin, get's a full on arthouse road trip |
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14 | 54 - Mark Christopher | Best 70's Club | | All the traits ov a great NY club - Studio 54 - glamorous, pretty, rad, door-people, had it all |
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15 | Mistress America - Noah Baumbach | Best Charming & Busy | | NY life for some is all doing things constantly - many things - a lot - and being charming |
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16 | Terminator Salvation - McG | Best Machine Takeover | | Wack dystopian Arnie future cyber superweb (Skynet) mechanized rule & war - rad |
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17 | My Own Private Idaho - Gus Van Sant | Best Plastic House | | Rad, arty, extreme yet subtle, out there yet normal, wack yet sane - great |
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18 | Hackers - Iain Softley | Best Phone Calls | | Vibrant got all the call codes tech and fast with early Angelina Jolie |
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19 | Betty Blue - Jean-jacques Beineix | Best Summer | | Very sweaty very french |
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20 | Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese | Best Taxi | | Out there ott over the edge rescue gone wrong helper gone mad |
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21 | Sicario (2015) - Denis Villeneuve | Best Border Crossing | | Mexico is dystopia flat out man - and the CIA wanna know - in - out - underneath |
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22 | Lost Highway - David Lynch | Best Trip ov The Condemned | | Wack, out there, very surrealist entertainment, philosophical dystopian hedonism |
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23 | Liquid Sky - Slava Tsukerman | Best Avant Garde 80's | | Surreal, new romantic, avant garde, arthouse, vivid color and imagery |
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24 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Bill Condon | Best Beast | | Just charming and delightful all the way through, with talking clock, candelabra and things |
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25 | 9½ Weeks - Adrian Lyne | Best Time In New York | | Ott sensual at one ov it's movie best - screens everywhere - obsessed |
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26 | Day Ov The Triffids - Steve Sekely | Best Plant Takeover | | Unforgettable plant overload and overkill - lingers in memory for ages - specially when alone |
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27 | Zombieland - Ruben Fleischer | Best Indiscriminate Killing | | Really great for blowing zombies to bits with shotguns and Bill Murray does a great zombie |
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28 | Trash - Paul Morrissey | Best Drug Day Afternoon | | Warhol doing his trashyness |
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29 | Baywatch (2017) - Seth Gordon | Best New Person | | We liked it, it had stuff and funny parts and things, a story sort ov - lots ov fun & reminisce |
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30 | The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne | Best Labotomy | | Just way too much like dark unexpected surreal while being homely horror date |
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31 | Tron: Legacy (2010) - Joseph Kosinsky | Best Re-Entry | | Ott graphics and scenes all the way though & rad cyber chics, Daft Punk played |
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32 | Tron (1982) - Steven Lisberger | Best Data Entry | | Full on rad life within the computer/software the lightbike race exquisite |
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33 | Jobs - Joshua Michael Stern | Best Apple | | All about Apple Computer aka Steve Jobs aka no longer CEO aka making another computer |
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34 | Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton | Best Dark Forrest | | Great costumes and drama in the dark woods with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci |
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36 | Blue Velvet - David Lynch | Best Gas | | Frankly it's very blue and velvety |
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37 | Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese | Best Illusion | | Story unfolds into a new psycho story - all is not what it seems - rad |
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38 | The Limits of Control - Jim Jarmusch | Best Wack Coffees | | Surreal, vivid, great costumes - not a lot said - very out there |
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39 | Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick | Best Society | | Dark side ov enlightened society - with all the bells and whisles |
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40 | Daft Punk's Electrorama - Daft Punk | Best Midnight Robots | | Offbeat robots trying to pass for human in a robot land - with humans - liked by 'Yen mag |
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41 | Tracks (2013) - John Curran | Best Camels | | Must see if you love animals - those camels just have all the love in them |
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42 | The Great Gatsby (2013) - Baz Luhrmann | Best Party Guy | | Gatsby has partys and everyone goes - great cars and great sets - grand |
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43 | Fifty Shades Darker - James Foley | Best Butterfly Suspense | | Non-stop butterflies man - a steady decent into the dystopian maelström - as movies do |
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45 | The Hunger Games - Gary Ross | Best Dystopian Life | | Reminds ov Rollerball so wacko dystopian future with a yearly battle to keep entropy happy |
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46 | Ed Wood - Tim Burton | Best Rubber Monster | | Bela Lugosi, Vampira, girls clothing, and making movies any way he can |
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47 | This Must Be the Place - Paolo Sorrentino | Best Retired Goth Rock Star | | Great character to every detail superb, just so good, best this year |
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48 | Stone Bros. - Richard Frankland | Best Gunja Road Trip | | Very funny all the way rad stoner type times - "made on dope" |
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50 | This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner | Best Love Stick | | Ott parody ov rock bands & their 'tour', the music & stage, it's all there - or is it - unseen |
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51 | The Drop - Michaël R. Roskam | Best Drop | | James Gandolfini runs a bar owned by the Chechnyan mafia - need we say more |
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52 | Suicide Squad (2016) - David Ayer | Best Laugh | | Jared Leto rad - Will Smith killer - Margo Robbie crazy - Cara Delevingne great - ott |
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53 | Control (2007) - Anton Corbijn | Best Joy Division | | Film (acted) about Ian Curtis - his life, the band's music and friends, his death |
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54 | Wild Things - John Mcnaughton | Best Carwash | | Bad chics bad guys just bad bad bad and just so great |
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56 | Westworld - Micheal Crighton | Best Software | | Come to Westworld, they're all robots, you'll have a great time time time time time time time |
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57 | Purple Rain (1984) - Albert Magnoli | Best Stage Chopper | | Prince - 'The Movie' - very sweet & fun to watch and feel you've at least seen it |
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58 | Spy Game - Tony Scott | Best Default Save | | Spy v spy - no-one knows who's doing what - there's stuff that needs doing - rad with Brad |
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59 | Looper - Rian Johnson | Best Gritty Future | | Outstanding dystopian future sets - rad - and farm time with Emily |
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60 | Straship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven | Best Brain Bug | | Future Sci-Fi - the other race has a Brain Bug for a leader - fascinating |
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61 | The Runaways - Floria Sigismondi | Best Cherry Bomb | | Great look at the start and procession ov the Runaways & Joan Jet |
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62 | Live By Night - Ben Affleck | Best I'm Not A Gangster | | Great prohibition boss who could negotiate and get things done for the Mafia |
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63 | Chopper - Andrew Dominik | Best Bad Person | | Eric Bana (comedian) does a fine Chopper - the life and times ov badness |
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64 | Batman and Robin (1997) - Joel Schumacher | Best Rubber Coated Batgirl | | Alicia in rubber mmmm.... worth seeing just for the fetish material |
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65 | Citizenfour - Lara Poitras | Best 'We Know Nothing' | | All Internet data is being stored - Ed Snowden tells NSA has been peeking at it & phones |
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66 | Pump Up The Volume - Allan Moyle | Best Bedroom Pirate Radio | | Great Pirate Radio - few memorable scenes - uses next door's 'Hands Free' connection |
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67 | Life - Anton Corbijn | Best Bridge Crossing | | James Dean's - 'Life' magazine iconic photograph and the moodiness ov it's star focus |
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68 | All the Money in the World - Ridley Scott | Best Kidnapping | | Paul Getty III was kidnapped and ransomed off - gives a look at Getty and why the name is so |
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69 | Red State - Kevin Smith | Best Wack Church | | Religion gone so terribly terribly wrong - and so ultraviolent for a country church |
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70 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Christopher McQuarrie | Best Opera Killzone | | Action packed all the way - cleverly exhausts the audience trying to figure it out on the fly |
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