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.
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