94. Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray 1956)
Read about it on IMDB. It’s so weird and overdone and overly colorful and melodramatic. But it sticks to you like a dream. Ray has one of the oddest sensibilities in film. If you ever get a chance to see it, stay with it, and guaranteed it will haunt your dreams. The same goes for many of his films. My own favorite nightmare might be his proto-lesbian western, Johnny Guitar.

90. Art & Copy(Doug Pray 2009)
I was really looking forward to this and it’s better than I even thought it would be. Doug Pray, who did Surfwise and Hype has such a clear, easy to watch crisply edited style. This film isn’t the usual tirade against advertising, but a celebration of its power as art and persuasion told through the voices of some of the masters of the best campaigns in advertising history. The film doesn’t doesn’t take a position on whether this is propaganda or art, only that it is powerful, enormously cleaver, often brilliant and can change direction culture. That says a lot.

87. Coming Apart (1969 NetFlix)
This was as disturbing as Trash Humpers for its time. People walked out and it wasn’t re released for decades. The entire film is shot into a mirror from a single camera angle in a one-room apartment. Rip Torn as psychoanalyst Joe Glazer rents a studio apartment away from his pregnant wife and has sexual encounters with a series of women which he films with a hidden camera. But it is an amazing experience and to watch Rip Torn blaze through this thing is to experience one of the best performances on film. You will not believe this is scripted. Totally hypnotic. Sally Kirkland and others give their heart and soul to the project. Not pleasant, but boy does it speak for its time, but probably any age.

74. The Man Next Door (el hombre de al lado)
Yet another great Argentine film. (The Secret in Their Eyes, The Custodian, Kept and Dreamless are others worth checking out) This strange story is about all kinds of things concerning communication, family, authenticity, seeing and being seen, architecture, and the modern world that has way of distancing us from one another with its obsession with technology. The brilliant opening let’s us know the movies style will border on what reminds me of ‘video art’ in its framing and clever shooting and concepts. It unfolds patiently, isn’t entirely sympathetic to its characters, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Don’t miss this one.

75. COCO AND IGOR
Gorgeous to look at and infinity better than Coco Before Channel which left you empty. The acting is great, sets, costumes, and cinematography all admirable. The opening scene of The Rite of Spring being performed for the first time in 1913 is worth the whole movie. I like the way Stravinsky’s music embellishes the whole thing, but it does really go anywhere. So you just sit back and try to imagine maybe this all really happened – that Igor had a passionate fling with Coco. I like costume dramas anyway, if a little cold to bio-pics. That they might have had this affair is a cool fact, but not necessarily made more real for me by seeing Igor’s naked heinie in an overhead shot pumping the very splayed thighs of Coco Chanel. Overall the movie it is fun to watch and listen to.

76. GET LOW
Robert Duvall should stop producing movies with scripts that let him play these inarticulate backwoods guys. The problem being that you wind up eventually with a film like this. It had me begging for something to happen followed by being actively pissed at the non-payoff ending. They build up this premise fed by artful flashbacks and then don’t have the good sense to conclude it.

77. TILLMAN STORY, THE
A story that needs to be told, and its told really well considering the limitations the director had with the family. This is one remarkable family seeking justice for their son a remarkable person and a war hero. It’s a shocking story, and I don’t know how much more disillusioned we can be about Bush, Rumsfeld and his arrogant and corrupt cronies. I hope this film gets seen. History will add it all up. At least that scumbag General McChrystal lost his job. See it. Watch the generals lie and deceive before your very eyes. An amazing story. See it. Arrg.

78. HIPSTERS(2008)
If you’re looking for an engaging quirky night of film, check out this bizarre Russian musical. I didn’t even think the colors in this film existed in Russia. I didn’t know the 1950’s existed in Russia but there is a serious and interesting historical component. The Stilyagi (’Hipsters’) were a rebellious youth subculture in Russia from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. They Soviet Union who dressed in modern fashions, and flew in the face of the communist-socialist realities of the time. This is great fodder for a film.The songs are generally very clever neatly worked into the plot. A hallucination of a movie. It’s in the tradition of midnight cult films. A great rental.

79. SOUL KITCHEN(Fatih Akin)
A bit unlikely and silly, but moves fasr. Akin having fun. Not his best. Be sure to see Head On and The Edge of Heaven first.

80. LUCKY
81. DRY LAND, THE
82. KILLED MY MOTHER (J’AI TUÉ MA MERE)
83. LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX
84. KINGS OF PASTRY